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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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Refining the Russian Collection

Posted on October 3, 2011 by Richard Aste

When I arrived at the Brooklyn Museum in the spring of 2010, I began a careful review of the Russian holdings and within months my colleagues and I identified a core group of avant-garde paintings from 1860-1930, which led to … Continue reading…

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From Russia—To Brooklyn—With Love

Posted on October 3, 2011 by Richard Aste

The Brooklyn Museum celebrates for the first time in over eighty years its renowned collection of modern Russian paintings with its newest installation, Russian Modern. From its first modern Russian art acquisition in 1906—Vasily Vereshchagin’s raw depictions of the Russo-Turkish … Continue reading…

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Four Bathing Beauties, Together for the First Time

Posted on April 26, 2011 by Richard Aste

Four Bathers by Degas and Bonnard offers an intimate look at bathing scenes by Edgar Degas (1834–1917) and Pierre Bonnard (1867–1947) completed in Paris and the French Riviera between 1884 and 1925. This focused installation of four works drawn entirely … Continue reading…

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IDENTITY CRISIS RESOLVED

Posted on April 13, 2011 by Richard Aste

Last week at the Frick Collection in upper Manhattan, H. Perry Chapman, Professor of Art History at the University of Delaware and author of Rembrandt’s Self-Portraits: A Study in Seventeenth-Century Identity, presented “Rembrandt & Dou: Rivalry in Self-Portrayal.” In a … Continue reading…

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There’s a New Girl in Town

Posted on January 20, 2011 by Richard Aste

Today an American beauty goes on view in the Museum’s European Beaux-Art Court. The Virgin by the Italo-American Futurist Joseph Stella joins the Court’s Old and Modern Masters on the northern wall nestled in between Renaissance portraits of women painted … Continue reading…

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An Artist and his Model

Posted on July 29, 2010 by Richard Aste

So, now that you know Rossetti’s Silence is on view for a limited time in the Museum’s Beaux-Arts Court, let’s enhance your visit by getting to know the artist, his model, and the story behind this late Victorian masterpiece. Dante … Continue reading…

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Silence on View

Posted on July 28, 2010 by Richard Aste

Beginning today, Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s Silence, one of the Brooklyn Museum’s finest European works on paper, will be on view for the first time in nearly 40 years in the third-floor Beaux-Arts Court (the European paintings gallery). Dante Gabriel Rossetti … Continue reading…

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