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March 15, 2021 Allegory of Virtue and Vice, about 1565, 7ft by 5½ft, by Paolo Veronese (about 1528–88), The Frick Collection, New York. Credit: Michael Bodycomb for The Frick
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The Choice Between Virtue and Vice by Paolo Veronese
‘This is the painting that, many years ago, made me fall in love with Veronese. It is a piece of pure theatre, an image that plays in clever ways with the viewer. It is a painting about the young handsome man in white (who is he?) and his choice.
‘But it is also an astute composition where the man and the viewer compete in terms of what they understand of the two flanking allegorical figures.
An exhibit of European and Asian porcelain from 1500 to 1900 at the Frick Collection s new museum location on Madison Avenue in New York. Photo: Bloomberg
For the last 100 years, stepping into the exquisitely preserved rooms of the Frick Collection’s mansion on New York’s Fifth Avenue was like entering a gilded time capsule.
It was both the draw of the museum, which is largely unchanged since it opened in 1935, and a flaw: Taken all at once, many of the spectacular bronzes, delicate Sèvres porcelain, and even masterpieces by Goya and Rembrandt drifted uncomfortably close to decoration, the collection’s many superlative parts subsumed into a larger, sumptuous whole.
Touring the Frick Madison, New York s newest cultural landmark
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1of9Giovanni Bellini s St Francis in the Desert c. 1476-78 at the Frick Collection s new museum location on Madison Avenue in New York on March 2, 2021.Bloomberg photo by Nina Westervelt.Show MoreShow Less
2of9Three busts from the 1470s.Bloomberg photo by Nina Westervelt.Show MoreShow Less
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4of9Eighteenth-century French busts on either side of the so-called Clodion clock at the entrance to the fourth-floor galleries at the Frick Collection s new museum location on Madison Avenue in New York.Bloomberg photo by Nina Westervelt.Show MoreShow Less
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Four panels of Fragonard s 1771-72 The Progress of Love series at the Frick Madison The Frick Collection; photo: Joe Coscia
Before the Frick Collection closed last year for a $160m renovation and expansion, its European paintings, sculpture and decorative arts had largely remained where the industrialist Henry Clay Frick first placed them in 1915 in his sumptuous East 70th Street mansion. Now stripped from their Gilded Age surroundings, highlights of the museum’s collection are going on view for the next two years a few blocks uptown on Madison Avenue at the Whitney Museum of American Art’s former home (most recently occupied by the Met Breuer).