RINGLING AROUND THE WORLD

Works from the Ringling Museum can be enjoyed in exhibitions all over the world in 2012. From Daytona Beach and New York to Rimini and Paris visitors can enjoy the treasures of the Ringling!

Pop Art: Sources and Context

Vero Beach Museum of Art, Florida

September 29, 2012–January 2, 2013

Raffaello verso Picasso

Basillica Palladiana, Vincenza, Italy

October 6, 2012–January 20, 2013

Palazzo della Gran Guardia, Verona, Italy

February 2–April 1, 2013

Impressionism, Fashion, and Modernity

Musée d’Orsay, Paris

September 18, 2012–January 13, 2013

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

February 19–May 27, 2013

The Art Institute of Chicago

June 30–September 22, 2013

Also on view:

Bohemes

Galeries Nationals, Grand Palais, Paris

September 24, 2012–January 6, 2013

Fondation culturelle mapfre, Madrid

January 29–April 28, 2013

Caravaggio and the European Caravaggism

Musée Fabre, Montpellier, France

June 22–October 14, 2012

Old Master Drawings

Museum of Arts & Sciences, Daytona Beach

November 16, 2012 to February 10, 2013

World of Shoes

Spurlock Museum, University of Illinois

September 4, 2012–February 10, 2013 were the most important characters, as their antics and intrigues decided the fate of all the others, from the frustrated lovers to the disagreeable elders. Best known of these is the poor man Harlequin. A brilliant acrobat, Harlequin is also gluttonous, illiterate, and gullible. His diamond-patterned costume suggests that he is wearing patchwork, a sign of his poverty; his mask is either speckled with warts or shaped like the face of a monkey, cat, or pig, and he often carries a batacchio, or slapstick. His paramour is Harlequina, a clever and coquettish maidservant who also typically wears patchwork garments.

The Draw of the Normandy Coast

Portland Museum of Art, Portland Maine

June 14–Sept. 2, 2012

Circus and the City

Bard Graduate Center, New York, NY

September 13, 2012–February 3, 2013

Giovanni Domenico Ferretti was famous for his harlequinades, or series showing the misadventures of Harlequin. The painter’s interest in the commedia dell’arte was encouraged by his cousin Anton Francesco Gori, an active member of the Accademia del Vangelista, a society for lovers of dramatic art in Florence. In 1742, the Venetian Carlo Goldoni, the most famous Italian playwright of the day, visited Florence. It was perhaps thanks to his influence—he often employed Harlequin as a subject in his comedies—that the Academy and its members began to commission Harlequinades from Ferretti.

Edouard Vuillard: A Painter and his Muses

The Jewish Museum, NYC

May 4–September 23, 2012

Rembrandt Paintings in America

Minneapolis Institute of Art

June 2012–September 2012

In the Ringling’s new painting, Harlequin is portrayed with the usual black mask and patchwork garments in primary colors while Harlequina wears a patchwork dress in pastel shades and sports a jaunty feathered fascinator atop her blonde curls and braids. The exaggerated dimensions of the child no doubt reflect the artist’s wish to ridicule the excessive paternal solicitude on the part of his father Harlequin, determined to stuff his son with maccheroni even before he is out of the cradle.