We offer grants in defined program areas and professional development fellowships for historians of art and architecture, art conservators, art museum curators and educators, and art librarians.
The Kress Collection encompasses more than 3,000 works of European art, and is distinguished for its abundance of Italian Renaissance paintings. The Collection was donated to scores of regional and academic art museums.
From 1964 – 1977, the Kress Foundation sponsored the publication of the Complete Catalogue of the Samuel H. Kress Collection, published on behalf of the Foundation.
The Samuel H. Kress Foundation devotes its resources to advancing the history, conservation, and enjoyment of the vast heritage of European art, architecture, and archaeology from antiquity to the early 19th century.
Jacopo d'Antonio Negretti, called Palma Vecchio. Venetian School. Born c. 1480; died 1528. He was a follower of Giovanni Bellini and came early under the spell of Giorgione. Especially well known are his large-scale halflength figures of blond women, placid, languid, luxurious, in contrast to Titian's dramatic presentation of similar models.