Exhibition: "Italian Old Master Prints: Selections from the Permanent Collection"



The Palmer Museum of Art looks to its permanent collection for this exhibition of etchings and engravings made by Italian artists or by others working in Italy during the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries. The majority of works in the exhibition are drawn from the large group of etchings and engravings collected by former Penn State art history professor Francis E. Hyslop, which were given in his memory to the Palmer Museum in the early 1980s.

Continues through May 23, 2010.

Above: "View of the Pyramid of Caius Cestius," from the "Vedute di Roma (Views of Rome)," 1755, etching, first state of six, 15 1/8 x 20 3/16 inches, by Giovanni Battista Piranesi (Italian, 1720–1778). Collection of the Palmer Museum of Art.

Museum Hours:
10:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday
Noon to 4:00 p.m. Sunday
Closed Mondays and some holidays
FREE ADMISSION
Starts
3/11/2010 @ 12:00
Ends
3/11/2010
Location
CURTIN ROAD
CURTIN ROAD
University Park, PA 16802


The Palmer Museum of Art looks to its permanent collection for this exhibition of etchings and engravings made by Italian artists or by others working in Italy during the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries. The majority of works in the exhibition are drawn from the large group of etchings and engravings collected by former Penn State art history professor Francis E. Hyslop, which were given in his memory to the Palmer Museum in the early 1980s.

Continues through May 23, 2010.

Above: "View of the Pyramid of Caius Cestius," from the "Vedute di Roma (Views of Rome)," 1755, etching, first state of six, 15 1/8 x 20 3/16 inches, by Giovanni Battista Piranesi (Italian, 1720–1778). Collection of the Palmer Museum of Art.

Museum Hours:
10:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday
Noon to 4:00 p.m. Sunday
Closed Mondays and some holidays
FREE ADMISSION

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