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Since its closure nearly three years ago for a major renovation, the Frick Collection, a beloved museum of art treasures housed in a mansion on Fifth Avenue, has undergone profound changes — physically and conceptually. On Wednesday, some of them will go on view for the first time, ahead of the museum’s scheduled reopening on March 22.
The most obvious addition is the partial excavation of a garden that runs vertically through the spacious museum and the passage that connects the two are of its main buildings. The garden was buried when William Henry Vanderbilt II built the mansion in 1914 on the site of his parents’ smaller mansion. The new garden, showing off the museum’s robust horticultural resources, has been unearthed in pavilions planted with boxwoods, yews, hornbeams and roses, all arranged in symmetry with the original garden and framed by the building’s French Renaissance architectural details. Roger B. Angell, Ernest Tesman Brown and David Diem. $#$assistant$#$
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Thanks to a major renovation over the past three years, the Frick Collection will unveil significant art conservation work when it reopens on March 22. This includes the restoration of Rembrandt’s “Aristotle Contemplating the Bust of Homer,” which has not been on display since 1996, and Johannes Vermeer’s “Young Woman with a Water Pitcher,” which has not been on view since 2012. Other works that have undergone conservation during the renovation include the “Third Stage of Love,” a sculpture by Diego Velazquez, and works by El Greco, Bellini, and Caravaggio. The renovation also added a new garden, which will be showcased before the official reopening.
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