Ian Wardropper is Director, The Frick Collection, New York, and has organized more than twenty exhibitions in his specialties of European sculpture, earlier decorative arts, and twentieth-century design and decorative arts. Recent exhibitions he co-organized at The Metropolitan Museum of Art include Art of the Royal Court: Treasures in Pietre Dure for the Palaces of Europe (2008) and Cast in Bronze: French Sculpture from Renaissance to Revolution (2009). Recent publications include European Sculpture, 1400–1900, The Metropolitan Museum of Art (2011), and Bernini: Sculpting in Clay (2012), a forthcoming exhibition catalogue for the Met and the Kimbell Art Museum.
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