From Rome to the Getty Center, Los Angeles

Judy Baca meets Renaissance mural painting

The Lost Murals of Renaissance Rome and Judy Baca: Hitting the Wall: Beginning May 31, visitors to the Getty Center in Los Angeles can compare preliminary drawings for lost Renaissance murals with Judy Baca's 1984 mural in two parallel exhibitions.

May 31, 2022
Federico Zuccaro, Taddeo in the Belvedere Court at the Vatican, about 1595
Getty Museum 99.GA.6.17
Federico Zuccaro (Italian, about 1541-1609), Taddeo in the Belvedere Court at the Vatican, about 1595, Pen and brown ink and brush with brown wash over black chalk and touches of red chalk 17.5 × 42.5 cm (6 7/8 × 16 3/4 in.)

At the time of the Renaissance, painted facades in Rome were considered treasures of the city, but most of them have not survived. The Getty Center in Los Angeles will exhibit sketches of the murals from its collection in The Lost Murals of Renaissance Rome beginning May 31. At the heart of the collection are works by Federico Zuccaro, who recorded the life of his older brother Taddeo. The drawings were probably intended for the family's palazzo, which would serve as a hostel for young artists visiting Rome.

In parallel, the Getty Center is showing Judy Baca: Hitting the Wall, the story of the creation of her mural of the same name, painted in 1984 for the Los Angeles Olympics and restored in 2021. Women were allowed to participate in marathons for the first time at that time. The painting is symbolic of the tearing down of old orders. In the exhibition, preliminary drawings are juxtaposed with a reproduction. The presentations, planned as a unit, are open until September 4.Art.Salon

Judy Baca, Hitting the Wall
Courtesy of the artist Judith F. Baca and the SPARC Archives SPARCinLA.org
Judy Baca (American, born 1946), Hitting the Wall: Final Coloration, Colored pencil on paper 55.9 x 187.3 cm (22 x 73 3/4 in.)
Artist Judith F. Baca at work on Hitting the Wall
Image courtesy of the SPARC Archives SPARCinLA.org
Artist Judith F. Baca at work on Hitting the Wall (1983)

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