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Italy Loans Bernini Works to Getty

By ARTINFO

Published: February 4, 2008
LOS ANGELES—Italy is lending the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles major Bernini sculptures, paintings, and drawings for an exhibition, “Bernini and the Birth of Baroque Portrait Sculpture,” set for summer, the New York Times reports. The exhibition will include major loans from Italian museums, and according to the Times, "underlines the benefits gained by the Getty from its recent handover of several dozen Greek antiquities that Italy asserted had been looted from its ancient archaeological sites." About a third of the 60 works slated for the show are from Italy. “It’s in our interest to work with the Getty, and they with us; we have many things in common,” said Angela Negro, a curator at the Palazzo Barberini, which is lending three works—Bernini portraits of Popes Urban VIII and Clement X and a 1634 statue of a dwarf by the Flemish artist Francois Duquesnoy.
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