Bob Jones University Museum & Gallery
The Bob Jones University Museum & Gallery is the art collection of the Bob Jones University in Greenville, South Carolina. It was established in 1951 and focuses on sacred art, mainly European Old Master paintings, but also smaller collections of sculpture, furniture, architectural elements, textile, and ancient artifacts. As of 2017, it is closed for renovation and expected to reopen in 2019.[1]
History
Bob Jones Jr., son and successor of Bob Jones Sr. who founded the university, started collecting art in 1948. An acquisition fund was created to buy western religious art to build a collection for the University. The first 25 paintings of the collection were displayed from Thanksgiving 1951 on in two rooms next to the Bowen Collection of Antiquities. This small gallery already included works by Sandro Botticelli, Domenico Ghirlandaio, Tintoretto, Paolo Veronese, and Jusepe de Ribera. The collection grew rapidly, and in 1956 it moved to the new Fine Arts building. By 1962 it contained more than 200 works of art. The 7 Benjamin West paintings were acquired in 1963, and in 1965 the gallery again moved, this time to the former dining hall of the university. In 1996, the Gallery became an independent corporation and changed its name to the Bob Jones University Museum & Gallery.[2]
In 2008, the Museum opened a second, smaller location in downtown Greenville at Heritage Green, but due to a lack of visitors they closed this again in 2017.[3]
Selected Old Master paintings
Italy
- Francesco di Vannuccio, Crucifix
- Bicci di Lorenzo, Madonna and Child with Angels
- Niccolò di Pietro Gerini, Madonna and Child with Saints
- Lorenzo di Niccolò di Martino, The Holy Trinity
- Baldassare di Biagio del Firenze and Matteo Civitali, Madonna and Child with Saints
- Master of the Greenville Tondo, Madonna and Child with Angels
- Sandro Botticelli, Madonna and Child with an Angel
- Pier Francesco Sacchi, The Adoration of the Shepherds
- Giovanni Filippo Criscuolo, The Last Judgment
- Francesco Granacci, Rest on the Flight into Egypt
- Marco d'Oggiono, Madonna of the Lake
- Ventura di Vincenzio Ulivieri, Ananias Restores Sight to Saul
- Il Sodoma, Procession to Calvary
- Andrea del Sarto, St. Sebastian
- Giovanni Lanfranco, St. Cecilia
- Tintoretto, The Visit of the Queen of Sheba to Solomon
- Salvator Rosa, Landscape with the Baptism of Christ
- Luca Giordano, Christ Cleansing the Temple
- Rutilio di Lorenzo Manetti, Christ Disputing with the Elders
- Carlo Dolci, Madonna and Child and The Repentant St. Peter
- Mattia Preti, Christ Seats the Child in the Midst of the Disciples
- Pompeo Batoni, St. James the Greater
- Ginevra Cantofoli, A Sibyl
- Domenichino, St. John the Evangelist
- Guido Reni, St. Matthew
- Giovanni Baglione, The Body of Christ Prepared for Burial
- Giuseppe Bartolomeo Chiari, The Return from the Flight into Egypt
- Sebastiano Conca, Justice and Temperance Overcoming Vice and Prudence and Fortitude Overcoming Evil
- Alessandro Magnasco, Monks before a Fireplace
Northern Europe
- Albrecht Bouts, The Man of Sorrows
- Colijn de Coter, St. Michael the Archangel and St. Agnes
- Master of the Holy Blood, Procession to Calvary
- Gerard David, The Risen Christ
- Master of St. Severin, Christ before Pilate
- Juan de Flandes, St. Augustine and St. Roch
- Jan Gossaert, The Virgin preparing the bath of the Child (also known as the Madonna of the Fireplace)
- Lucas Cranach, the Elder, Joab Slays Abner and Salomé with the head of John the Baptist
- Lucas Cranach, the Younger, Allegory on the Fall and Redemption of Man
- Jan van Scorel, Christ and the Samaritan Woman
- Jan van Amstel, called the Brunswick Monogrammist, Ecce Homo
- Joachim Bueckelaer, The Holy Family
- Jan Swart van Groningen, Nativity Triptych
- Hans von Aachen, The Adoration of the Shepherds
- Joos van Winghe, The Adoration of the Shepherds
- Cornelis Cornelisz. van Haarlem, Christ Healing the Blind Man
- Abraham Janssens, Lamentation over the Dead Christ
- Peter Paul Rubens, Christ on the Cross
- Gaspar de Crayer, St. Augustine
- Gerrit van Honthorst, The Holy Family in the Carpenter Shop
- Jan Hermansz. van Bijlert, St. Mary Magdalene Turning from the World to Christ
- Anthony van Dyck, Madonna and Child
- Matthias Stom, Lot Leaving Sodom
- Jan Boeckhorst, The Adoration of the Magi
- Govaert Flinck, Solomon’s Prayer for Wisdom
- Gerbrand van den Eeckhout, Joseph Interpreting the Dreams of Pharaoh’s Butler and Baker
- Jan Victors, Esther Accusing Haman
Spain
- Vincente Juan Macip, Pentecost
- Jusepe de Ribera, The Entombment of Christ and Ecce Homo
- Francisco Herrera the Elder, St. Catherine of Alexandria Appearing to the Family of St. Bonaventura
- Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, The Martyrdom of St. Andrew and The Heavenly Shepherd
- José Antolínez, St. Michael the Archangel Overcoming Satan
France
- Antoine de Lonhy, Presentation in the Temple
- Trophime Bigot, St. Sebastian Aided by St. Irene
- Simon Vouet, King David Playing the Harp and Salome with the Head of St. John the Baptist
- Sébastien Bourdon, The Hiding of Moses
- Philippe de Champaigne, The Christ of Derision
- Charles Le Brun, Pentecost
- François de Troy, Christ and the Samaritan Woman
- Jean Baptiste Jouvenet, Christ with the Roman Centurion
- Pierre Hubert Subleyras, Christ in the House of the Pharisee
- Félix Louis Leullier, The Martyrdom of St. Perpetua and St. Felicitas
Great Britain
- Edward Matthew Ward, Martin Luther Discovering Justification by Faith
- Eyre Crowe, Wittenberg, October 31, 1517
- Edwin Long, Vashti Refuses the King's Summons and Sir Henry Irving as Richard, Duke of Gloucester
- Benjamin West, 7 paintings from the series "The Progress of Revealed Religion"
- Frederic James Shields, Patience
United States
- John Koch, Julius Weitzner
Gallery
Antoine de Lonhy, Presentation in the Temple, ca. 1480
Sandro Botticelli, Madonna and Child with an Angel, ca. 1490
Albrecht Bouts, The Man of Sorrows, ca. 1500
Jan Gossaert, The Virgin preparing the bath of the Child, ca. 1515
Lucas Cranach, the Elder, Salomé with the head of John the Baptist, first half of the 16th century
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Francisco Herrera the Elder, St. Catherine of Alexandria Appearing to the Family of St. Bonaventura, 1629
Matthias Stom, Lot Leaving Sodom, ca. 1630
Carlo Dolci, Virgin and Child, 1640s
Luca Giordano, Christ Cleansing the Temple
Domenichino, St. John the Evangelist
Benjamin West, Esau and Jacob Presented to Isaac
Notes
- ↑ "Museum & Gallery at Bob Jones University". Bob Jones University. Retrieved 2 August 2017.
- ↑ "M&G's Beginnings". Bob Jones University Museum & Gallery. Retrieved 4 August 2017.
- ↑ Hyde, Paul (27 January 2017). "BJU closes museums: one for renovation, one permanently". Greenville Online. Retrieved 4 August 2017.