Cocktails with a Curator: Bastiani's "Adoration of the Magi" 

Oh, God! I can't get enough of these talks! Hallelujah for some intellectual stimulation!

How absolutely wonderful to be able to spend part of my Christmas Day with Xavier! He is one of my favorite people (along with Aimee) and learning from him is such a joy. Happy Holidays to all of you !! 2021 is almost here !! Yipeee

What better way to celebrate Christmas, again, but with Cocktails with our favorite Curator. Buon Natale!

Merry Christmas to all the hard working Frick curators!

Another brilliant and thought-provoking talk by our favorite Xavier Salamone! Bastiani is clearly an artist who deserves more attention and I look forward to learning more. BRAVO FRICK CURATORS for keeping us all sane and learning during the pandemic-- these programs have been a joy.

Thank you from Italy and may all of you have a nice holiday season. We visited the Frick just one year ago.. hope to come again..

Thank you for this today! I am stuck isolated at home here in NYC with my husband from the omicron 'hell' many of us are now experiencing (we like to call it nyc apocalypse #3 but this time half the city is positive)...and I remembered how much I LOVE this show. I can't tell you enough what a gift of learning and fun. So much gratitude! Merry Christmas!

Lovely! It's only an accident of birth that I am not dwelling in Venice with these masterpieces and their historic presence. Thank you again, from somewhat post covid? Dare I say

A wonderfully absorbing talk from Xavier, once again. Thank you so very much.

Merry Christmas from Italy, and thank you for this precious gift

Another superb talk by Xavier Salomon--myriad ideas and insights, so wonderfully contextualized, excellent on multiple levels. But would have liked to see more detailed images of the Bastiani Magi, information on support and dimensions (small matters but still important). Many thanks.

I too offer my best holiday wishes to all the staff at the Frick. Thanks for your wonderful work to keep us connected with this great collection!

So love these curated presentations!

Wishing everyone at the Frick a Merry Christmas and may 2021 be a better year for all. Thank you for making the end of the weeks so much brighter throughout this year. Best wishes from Liverpool.

Lovely talk!

These wonderful shows have made life so much better, during the past 9 months, Thank You!!! Merry Christmas!!!

Buon Natale, Xavier!

Thank you Xavier this this Christmas sweet treat!

Research on an artist like Bastiani sounds incredibly interesting, a mystery to be solved. What I most admire about these presentations is the context of cultural history of the artist and painting. Art history was not presented as cultural history when I studied in the late 1970s. It is more interesting to consider an artist living and working in a larger milieu among other artists and patrons. For all we know, Bastiani’s personality contributed to his success, and the quality is there as well. That is what is so phenomenal about Italian art of the period, the number of fine artists for patrons to choose from. Merry Christmas!

Thank you so much for this wonderful presentation. Always a treat to learn about new art works and artists from Xavier. This adds to our idea of Venice in the 1470's with a competing family vying for prominence with the Belini workshop.

Excellent presentation, I feel as being given personnal tour by Xavier. KK Merry X

Merry Christmas! I look forward to seeing you all in the new year too! Fridays are just so enjoyable now with you two around!

Thanks for everything and best to you all this holiday season.

I missed this, but we have had a different Christmas due to Covid, so we will watch this on the Russian Orthodox Christmas Day. I think I will make a Maker's Mark Manhattan with Cocchi vermouth! Thanks so much.

Salute e Buona Natale!

Can't wait to join you all this Christmas Day! Great way for me to share this day with my brother! Greetings from Loris, SC.38 and windy today!

Merry Christmas To you Mr Xavier... Always Beautiful 😍💖👌🌐

Merry Christmas. all !!!

Merry Christmas and thank you Xavier, Aimee, and The Frick! I can't wait to visit again some day .

As always a wonderfully concise and learned talk and on Christmas day. Thank you Xavier.

Merry Christmas ! It is a very special day.

Dear Mr.Salamon it was again e very deteled programm about christmas Adoration of christ and very fine paintings from Bellini and Bastiani .The nativity Chatedral must bee e holy place where the history of christianity started and due to this inspired lots.of artist from the world but may bee the early italians were the most spiritual and nice.As the time goes so quiqly I wish all of you a happy next christmas in 2021.Thanks

Thanks for guiding and may bee little bit late but marry christmas and god blessed new year

thank you

Brilliant, again. Many thanks, Sir.

Semplicemente grandioso.Grazie

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The quality of your uploads is excellent. Thank you. Betlehem... were Joseph come from.

Thank you! Merry Christmas!

Thank you for this and all your presentations! Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas Judith. It is such a great site to join and enjoy !

Merry Christmas to all! 🎄

This baritone brings vibrations

Thank you Xavier, Aimee and the Frick Collection people for this amazing year of uploads. The series would have been outstanding under any circumstance, but with this strange and rather dreadful year of 2020, it’s been a real haven of online art, knowledge and intelligence. Thank you again, and I dropped a donation which I hope can make a small difference.

brilliant thank you

Thank you so much for the Christmas Gift of viewing great art! And for all that you and your colleagues promote. Then the God awful nativity, shock art is allowed at the Vatican. Bless you!!!

Again a wonderful presentation. I think its important to take the birth narratives in the Bible with a grain of salt. A census is not conducted by having everyone travel far from their homes in order to assess tax revenue but rather by having officials assess the actually residents within the area. The idea of traveling to Bethlehem was created in order to make a connection with the historical King David. The Bible says the mesiah will be a decendant of his.

The Nativity is a subject of christmas so wish you god blessing and Next happy christmas in advance 2021 year. I saw in Gentille magasine many paintings about Jezus birth and Betlehem where the star schowed Maria travelling on the donky with Joseph and the three King admired the little borned baby Jezus King aour savour.So you mentioned Lazzarus Bastianis works what I have never heared before and was a very great artist.I rembet Paduas Chatedral withe a group hungarians on the way to Venice where Our first italian biscop Gellert is burried to bring home the reliquie which is kept now in Budapest in the Down town church at the Danube.I recommend you to visite it once as it is surrunded by italian escuavations and ruins and from there you can enjoy the wie to the Royal Palace on the othet side of the river. THanks Arriderverci

Could you say more about fricks purchases from Morgan in some session? Love the videos!

I wish you had included details of the Adoration. It's a very complex picture.

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Lol, the Barnes youtube also focused and mentioned this basilica in their discussion of a Greek icon of the Nativity.

yoyoyo y'all!!

Based on your experiences what are the best things to see in Italy?

Take me to heaven

This is a wonderful talk - but if Mary has to travel back to Bethlehem for the census because it is where her family is from, why doesn’t she stay with family members? She wouldn’t need to stay at an inn.

The Magi were not “mythical” kings. They were Persians and they did go to the Christ child.

Mary should've booked a hotel with Expedia first before just going on out to Bethlehem. Wouldn't have had to spend a night in a stable and Jesus could've been born in style.

I love your art videos, but I think you should be careful about using words like "myth" and "legend" about some things that are actually in the Christian Bible, the New Testament. It's offensive to use that terminology just because it may not be your religion. Please just stick to art history, at which you are a master, without giving your opinions of what is "myth." Also, they were returning to the city of Joseph's ancestors -- he was from the House of David, not Mary's, although it is believed she also was from the line of David.