University of San Diego
Timken Museum of Art
September 27 & 28, 2019
Meredith’s USD alumni magazine alerted us to a special art exhibition several months ago, and Meredith explored it this past weekend.
The University of San Diego and the Timken Museum have joined together, in partnership with the British Museum, to bring to town a selection of outstanding Italian prints and drawings owned by the British Museum, mainly from the Renaissance period.
Some can be seen at USD’s Hoehn Family Galleries, in Founders Hall on the university campus. The exhibition there is entitled Christ: Life, Death and Resurrection.
The rest can be seen at the Timken Museum in Balboa Park, in the special exhibition room. It is entitled simply Masterpieces of Italian Drawings.
The rarest and most exciting piece on exhibit is Michelangelo’s drawing The Three Crosses. That piece can be seen at USD. It figures prominently in the publicity for the exhibition, for instance on the cover of the alumni magazine, but it is by no means the only masterpiece on display.
Admission to both museums is free.
Postcript: both exhibitions closed in December 2019, but USD posted an excellent video online, with curatorial fellow John Murphy conducting a virtual highlights tour of the USD portion of the project. It runs 28 minutes and can be seen here.