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Georgia Museum of Art (GMOA) presents A Divine Light. Northern Renaissance Paintings from the Bob Jones University Museum & Gallery

The Georgia Museum of Art (GMOA) presents A Divine Light. Northern Renaissance Paintings from the Bob Jones University Museum & Gallery, an exhibition on view through JULY 29, 2012.


EcceHomo VanAmstel Georgia Museum of Art (GMOA)

Organized by the Frist Center for the Visual Arts in Nashville, Tenn., and the Bob Jones University Museum & Gallery in Greenville, A Divine Light: Northern Renaissance Paintings from the Bob Jones University Museum & Gallery and its accompanying catalogue, which have been awarded financial support from the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, presents 28 works of art from one of the finest collections of Old Master paintings in the Southeast. Dr. Bob Jones Jr. acquired these paintings for the art museum he founded in 1951 at Bob Jones University. The great Baroque holdings of the museum have long overshadowed other parts of the collection, and “A Divine Light” marks the first time that its beautiful Northern Renaissance paintings have been the sole focus of an exhibition. Designed as intimate encounter with the devotional art of the 15th and 16th centuries, “A Divine Light” explores the ways in which Northern Renaissance artists expressed the central mysteries of the Christian faith through setting, pose, gesture and the objects of everyday life.

Curator: Lynn Boland, Pierre Daura Curator of European Art

The Georgia Museum of Art is located in the Performing and Visual Arts Complex on the East Campus of the University of Georgia. The address is 90 Carlton Street, University of Georgia, Athens, Ga. 30602-6719. For more information, including hours, see http://www.georgiamuseum.org or call 706.542.GMOA (4662).

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