Van Ackeren Collection Works On Display at Nelson-Atkins
More than 40 years ago, curators from the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art helped 射精视频 choose pieces of significance for what was then a new collection of religious art to be housed on campus.
Now, some of the very pieces from that collection will grace the walls at Kansas City鈥檚 premier art museum for the next year.
opened last Friday at the Nelson, featuring paintings and sculptures from the University鈥檚 collection. With origins in a time during which many faithful could not read the Bible themselves, the museum said these objects offer 鈥渁 glimpse into the hopes and fears of the people who worshipped with them hundreds of years ago. By 1300 in Western Europe, a form of spirituality emerged that emphasized emotional involvement.鈥
The Van Ackeren collection is normally housed at the Greenlease Gallery as the permanent counterpart to the rotating contemporary exhibits. But with the renovation of Sedgwick Hall, the gallery is closed until fall 2022, with the collection stored at the Nelson in the meantime. In addition to serving as an opportunity to make sure these pieces are viewable during that renovation, 鈥淥bjects of Devotion鈥 gives the Van Ackeren collection (which was the subject of a聽聽by Loren Whittaker, then a doctoral student at the University of Kansas) a much broader audience, said Kristy Peterson, director of the Center for Arts and Letters.
鈥淭his is a fabulous opportunity to allow a broader general public to experience part of our collection while our gallery is temporarily offline here on the Rockhurst campus,鈥 she said. 鈥淓ven when the Greenlease Gallery reopens in the fall of 2022, we will never see attendance the Nelson-Atkins Museum receives.鈥
鈥淥bjects of Devotion鈥 is on view at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art through June 17, 2022.