Art Exhibition of Renaissance Age - Roles of Museum Curator and Exemplary Works

Running head: ART EXHIBITION OF RENAISSANCE AGE
ART EXHIBITION OF RENAISSANCE AGE
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ART EXHIBITION OF RENAISSANCE AGE
Executive Summary
The report analyses the different roles of a curator of a museum and the different ways that they
are supposed to manage the museum. The different problem and challenges faced by the curator
along with the different capabilities needed to address the issues are presented in the report. The
exemplary works are presented and justified for their need in the art exhibition of Renaissance
Age.

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Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................3
Roles of Museum Curator................................................................................................................3
Five Art Works................................................................................................................................4
Exhibit 1: Magdalene Penitent by Donatello...............................................................................5
Exhibit 2: Annunciation by Leonardo Da Vinci..........................................................................6
Exhibit 3: Virgin of the Rocks by Leonardo Da Vinci................................................................6
Exhibit 4: Mappa dell’Inferno by Botticelli................................................................................7
Exhibit 5: The creation of Adam by Michelangelo.....................................................................8
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................8

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Introduction
A museum curator has to play multiple roles in presenting the different aspects of the
presented articles. Being a museum curator one has divergent responsibilities which include
managing the museum, maintaining a record of documentation, managing the employees and
event management and planning and other such responsibilities (Longair). The subject of the
exhibition is to give the audience a complete overview of the art forms of the Renaissance period
in the Fifteenth Century Italy. As a curator of the Two Rivers Gallery, it is my plan to organize
an exhibit focussed on Italian Renaissance Art. The Renaissance age was the revival of the
different art forms from the binds of the different middle ages and revived the ancient Greece-
Roman art styles. Renaissance art was an amalgamation of the classical styles of presentation
along with the modern scientific knowledge that was gained.
Roles of Museum Curator
The complete knowledge and command over the subject to present is seen as the prime
responsibility of the museum curator. Their roles also take into account the different
responsibilities like managing the different exhibits, keeping up and maintenance and assuring
that the museum has its fair share of exhibits to display. It is also the responsibility of the curator
that the exhibits are properly marked so that the general population visiting the museum have
access to the information they want. The curator sometimes also does managerial tasks such as
fundraising events, planning museum visits of important people and bringing in important
artefacts to be displayed. The management of the different communication channels between the
museum and the different stakeholders and also maintaining the exhibit related public relations.
In small museum and galleries where the curator is the whole and sole responsible person, they