[both at 1 1/2  cols.]

Italian 43.11

Italian, Lombardy, Leaf from an Antiphonary: The Martyrdom of St Lawrence, circa 1430, ink, tempera and gold leaf on parchment. Gift of Robert Lehman.

Wang

Wang Yuanqi (Chinese, 1642–1715), “Landscape in the Manner of Ni Zan,” 1710, ink on paper. Gift of Carol S. Brooks in honor of her father, George J. Schlenker, and R.T. Miller, Jr, Fund.

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ASIAN LANDSCAPES, MEDIEVAL & RENAISSANCE MANUSCRIPTS AT ALLEN ART, OBERLIN, W/2 cuts

set 2-27; AK; #690075

OBERLIN, OHIO — The Allen Memorial Art Museum (AMAM) at Oberlin College is presenting three teaching exhibitions in the Ripin Print Gallery, on view through June 2. A reception for the exhibitions will be held Friday, March 9, from 5 to 7 pm, preceded by Ellen Johnson Gallery; the museum is at 87 North Main Street. 

“The Cultured Landscape in China and Japan” includes painted hand scrolls and woodblock prints from the AMAM’s permanent collection. Organized by Mellon postdoctoral fellow Chung-Lan Wang, the exhibition displays an array of landscapes from the early modern period, when landscapes reflected the intertwining relations between literature, art and politics. The works will be used by students in Wang’s course, Landscape and Culture in Early Modern East Asia.

A related installation of paintings from a private collection, “Expressions of the Literati in Suzhou,” highlights Suzhou artists of the Ming dynasty. Included are rarely exhibited works by four famous masters of the school: Shen Zhou, Wen Zhengming, Tang Yin and Qiu Ying. The exhibition has been organized by Oberlin student Andrew Feng with Chung-Lan Wang.

A selection of medieval and Renaissance manuscript leaves from the museum’s collection is displayed in “Illuminated Manuscripts from the Thirteenth through Sixteenth Centuries.” Fine examples of French, English, German and Italian leaves from books including bibles, private devotional material and liturgical manuscripts are included, as is the museum’s most recent acquisition in the field, a Fifteenth Century leaf from Biberach in southern Germany.

The exhibition was organized by Erik Inglis, a professor at Oberlin, and complements his course, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Oberlin Collections.

The Allen Memorial Art Museum is open to the public, and admission is free. It is open Tuesday through Saturday from 10 am to 5 pm.; Sunday 1 to 5 pm.

For  general information, www.oberlin.edu/allenart or 440-775-8665.