two years later

Kathryn Hewitt

Brigitte Bourgeois

Featuring art from the collections of the J

museum directors

Objects of Virtue: Art in Renaissance Italy test tracking two years laterLuke Syson and Dora Thornton You are what you own. So believed many of the elite men and women of Renaissance Italy. The notion that a person's belongings transmit something about their personal history, status, and character was renewed in the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. Objects of Virtue explores the multiple meanings and values of the objects with which families like the Medici, Este, and Gonzaga surrounded themselves. This lavishly