October 3, 2025

To the Holy Sepulcher: Treasures from the Terra Sancta Museum at The Frick Collection, October 2, 2025 through January 5, 2026

“Beginning this fall, The Frick Collection presents a stunning exhibition of more than forty objects on loan from the Terra Sancta Museum. Ranging from liturgical objects in gem-encrusted gold and silver to richly decorated vestments in velvet, damask, and other fine materials, the works were created for the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem and were largely unknown until their rediscovery by scholars in the 1980s. They represent the pinnacle of European craftsmanship in these fields during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and many have no parallel anywhere in the world. To the Holy Sepulcher: Treasures from the Terra Sancta Museum offers visitors the opportunity to view these objects for the first time in North America.” — The Frick Collection

Commented Salomon, “This exhibition represents a completely unique opportunity for visitors, building on the Frick’s successful past presentations highlighting masters of European decorative arts. Displayed for the first time in the United States, the exquisite objects in this show are rare survivals, as similar objects were often severely damaged, melted down, or otherwise lost—nothing like them survives in the countries in which they were created. We are deeply grateful for this collaboration with the Custody of the Holy Land as we look ahead to the opening of the Terra Sancta Museum, which will offer a more permanent public display of these treasures.

Installation view of To the Holy Sepulcher: Treasures from the Terra Sancta Museum at The Frick Collection, showing Antonio de Laurentiis’s Throne of Eucharistic Exposition (Naples, 1754) (center) and other works from the Kingdoms of Naples, Portugal, and Spain, courtesy the Terra Sancta Museum, Jerusalem. 
Photo: Joseph Coscia Jr.
Installation view of To the Holy Sepulcher: Treasures from the Terra Sancta Museum at The Frick Collection, showing works from the Kingdom of Spain, courtesy the Terra Sancta Museum, Jerusalem. 
Photo: Joseph Coscia Jr.
Installation view of To the Holy Sepulcher: Treasures from the Terra Sancta Museum at The Frick Collection, showing Pietro, Eutichio, and Sebastiano Juvarra’s Throne of Eucharistic Exposition (Messina, 1665) (top center) and other works from the Kingdom of Spain, courtesy the Terra Sancta Museum, Jerusalem. 
Photo: Joseph Coscia Jr.
Installation view of To the Holy Sepulcher: Treasures from the Terra Sancta Museum at The Frick Collection, showing Al San Lorenzo Giustinian Workshop’s Pair of Torchères (Venice, 1762) flanking Gennaro De Blasio’s Altar Frontal or Antependium (Naples, 1731) along with other works from the Kingdom of Naples and Republic of Genoa, courtesy the Terra Sancta Museum, Jerusalem
. Photo: Joseph Coscia Jr.
Installation view of To the Holy Sepulcher: Treasures from the Terra Sancta Museum at The Frick Collection, showing Al San Lorenzo Giustinian Workshop’s Pair of Torchères (Venice, 1762) flanking Gennaro De Blasio’s Altar Frontal or Antependium (Naples, 1731), courtesy the Terra Sancta Museum, Jerusalem
. Photo: Joseph Coscia Jr.
Installation view of To the Holy Sepulcher: Treasures from the Terra Sancta Museum at The Frick Collection, showing The Resurrection (Naples, 1736) (left) and the Chasuble from the Red “Jerusalem Cross.” Set of Pontifical Vestments Sent by the Commissariat of Lombardy (Milan or Genoa, probably 1600) (right), courtesy the Terra Sancta Museum, Jerusalem. 
Photo: Joseph Coscia Jr.
Installation view of To the Holy Sepulcher: Treasures from the Terra Sancta Museum at The Frick Collection, showing two Chasubles (Milan or Genoa, probably 1600) flanking the entry to a room with works from the Kingdom of France, donated by King Louis XIII, courtesy the Terra Sancta Museum, Jerusalem
. Photo: Joseph Coscia Jr.
Installation view of To the Holy Sepulcher: Treasures from the Terra Sancta Museum at The Frick Collection, showing Claude Caignet’s Large Sanctuary Lamp (Paris, 1617–18), Large Processional Cross (Paris, ca. 1620), and Six Altar Candlesticks (Paris, 1620–21 and 1623–24) and Alexandre Paynet’s (or Penet’s) Red Pontifical Vestments (Paris, 1619), donated by King Louis XIII, courtesy the Terra Sancta Museum, Jerusalem. Photo: Joseph Coscia Jr.

The exhibitionis organized by Xavier F. Salomon, the Frick’s Deputy Director and Peter Jay Sharp Chief Curator, along with Jacques Charles-Gaffiot and Benoît Constensoux, members of the Terra Sancta Museum’s Scientific Committee.

Title image: Antonio de Laurentiis. Throne of Eucharistic Exposition. Naples, 1754. Gold, gilt copper, almandine garnets, amethysts, rock crystal, diamonds, rubies, emeralds, sapphires, carnelians, peridots, smoky quartzes, glass, and doublets. 68 3/4 × 32 1/4 × 15 3/8 in. (174.5 × 82 × 39 cm). Terra Sancta Museum, Jerusalem. Photo: Joseph Coscia Jr.

Images courtesy The Frick Collection.