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'Gothic Art' To Open May 8 As Vanderbilt Treasures Return Antiques and Arts Weekly

20.04.10

:For the first on one occasion since 1927, Alva Vanderbilt's extravagant collection of more than 300 Medieval and Renaissance art objects has been reassembled for display at Marble Dwelling, in the Gothic Room that was designed for them in 1892. Beginning May 8, visitors to Marble House, a National Signal Landmark maintained by The Preservation Society of Newport County, will see the Gothic Room and the art collection just as Alva and her guests did a century ago.

"The recur, substantially intact, of such an extraordinary historic collection to the setting that was designed to display it is exceedingly rare," said Trudy Coxe, Protection Society chief executive officer and executive director. "Giving our visitors the opportunity to see this collection in its historic location just as Alva Vanderbilt intended it to be seen raises the significance of this exhibition to another level, even beyond the value of the objects themselves."

"Gothic Art in the Gilded Age: Medieval and Rebirth Treasures in the Gavet-Vanderbilt-Ringling collection" comprises more than 300 paintings, sculptures and works of decorative art, including metalwork, possessions and ceramics created across Europe chiefly between 1100 and 1550. This group of objects belonged to three successive owners: Paris gatherer and dealer Emile Gavet, Newport society hostess Alva Vanderbilt Belmont and circus impresario John Ringling.

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