(ANSA) - NEW YORK, FEBRUARY 09 - The Frick Collection reopens on March 18 in the concrete building on Madison Avenue designed by Marcel Breuer, a five-minute walk, but stylistically at the liantipodi, from the ornate mansion on Fifth Avenue which has hosted the precious OldMasters collection of steel industrialist Henry Frick.
It will be an opening to limited access due to Covid.
The move to the brutalist-style building, owned by the Whitneye until last summer rented by the Metropolitan, was necessary to leave the field open to architects and workers in charge of the expansion of the historic headquarters on Fifth Avenue.
Frick Madison, as the museum will be called, will be open for a couple of years.
The opportunity offered by the renovation allowed the collection to be extrapolated out of the domestic setting of Frick's villa, where paintings, furniture, sculptures and ceramics were part of the furnishings.
In the new exhibition on Madison Avenue, masterpieces by Bellini, Clodion, Gainsborough, Goya, Holbein, Houdon, Ingres, Rembrandt, Titian, Turner, Velázquez, Verrocchio, Vermeer, Whistle and many others will be presented chronologically and by geographical region.
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