Richard Aste
Curator of European Art
Richard Aste joined the Brooklyn Museum in the spring of 2010 as Curator of European Art. From 2007 until 2010, he was Associate Curator of European Art at Museo de Arte de Ponce in Puerto Rico. There he organized the exhibitions El Greco to Goya: Masterpieces of Spanish Painting from the Prado and The Journey to Impressionism and co-curated Masterpieces of European Painting from Museo de Arte de Ponce and The Age of Rodin. Aste has taught at Hunter College and worked as an Old Master paintings and drawings specialist at Christie’s New York and Rome. He has contributed to numerous exhibition catalogues, among them Giulio Romano: Master Designer (Hunter College Art Gallery, New York) and Venus and Love: Michelangelo and the New Ideal of Beauty (Galleria dell’Accademia, Florence). Aste received his B.A. from the University of Michigan, his M.A. from Hunter College, and his M.Phil. from the CUNY Graduate Center, where he is pursuing his Ph.D. As Curator of European Art, he will also oversee the Brooklyn Museum's Spanish colonial collection.
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