‘PRINTED SCULPTURE/ SCULPTED PRINTS’ WILL OPEN AT BMA NOV. 14

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BALTIMORE, MD. — The Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA) presents the exhibition, “Printed Sculpture/ Sculpted Prints,” on view November 14–March 23.

Approximately 25 works from the BMA’s print collection and two related, small-scale statues explore how sculpture was represented in European prints from the mid-Sixteenth through Eighteenth Centuries.

Images of some of the most famous classical and Renaissance sculptures in Europe are included, from a pair of woodcuts showing Giambologna’s “Rape of the Sabines” to delicate but powerful renderings of Michelangelo’s early “Pietá” and his late “Lamentation.”

Printmakers imbued these two-dimensional works with as much grandeur as their three-dimensional counterparts by introducing narrative settings, inventive shadowing and coloring devices, and new production techniques to challenge other genres and elevate printmaking as an art form.

Students from The Johns Hopkins University worked closely with BMA staff to produce the exhibition, acting as curators, designers, educators and marketers for the project. The exhibition is curated by Darsie Alexander, BMA senior curator of contemporary art.

Elizabeth Rodini, the museum’s adjunct associate curator of prints, drawings and photographs and associate director of the museums and society program and senior lecturer in history of art at The Johns Hopkins University, is the guest curator.

The Baltimore Museum of Art is at 10 Art Museum Drive. For information, 443-573-1700 or www.artbma.org.