The Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy will be featuring a piece from Montclair Art Museum’s collection by Thomas Cole from the Hudson River Valley School.
Dr. Michele Amedei, an art historian working with a curator from the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, visited Montclair with local historian Frank Gerard Godlewski to view the Thomas Cole piece, “Sunset on the Arno, 1831.” The painting will be exhibited at the Uffizzi in an upcoming exhibition.
Dr. Amedei, with Godlewski, toured Montclair and Llewelyn Park, formerly the “headquarters” of the local Hudson River Valley School artists colony. He also admired the view of Manhattan and the Hudson Bay that had inspired the artists’ romantic vision of the new world’s remarkable natural landscapes. The exhibition is called “Giuseppe Bezzuoli, a Grand Protagonist of Romantic Painting” and opens on April 2. The exhibition will run through July 26, 2020.
Thomas Cole studied with Bezzuoli at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Florence in 1831 -1832. Dr. Amedei is currently a fellow at the CIMA Italian Arts foundation in NYC. He is an expert on Bezzuoli, Cole and Florence in the romantic era.