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In honor of Caramoor's founder's, Walter and Lucie Rosen, the family residence, formerly known as the House Museum, has been renamed the Rosen House of Caramoor. |
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Permanent Collection
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Gray, earthenware with traces of pigment Chinese, Northern Wei dynasty
(386-535 A.D.) |
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Birth Tray
Scenes from Boccaccio's Teseide
Oil on panel
Italian, (Florentine)
15th century |
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The Majestic Music Room houses most of the Renaissance art the Rosens collected through the years | Nineteen magnificent rooms at the Rosen House are open to the public, filled with the extraordinary collection Mr. and Mrs. Rosen amassed through the years: Renaissance, 18th century, and Eastern art objects and furnishings - tapestries, sculpture, paintings, textiles, furniture, exquisite wall coverings, stained glass, Urbino Maiolica and a major jade collection. Entire rooms were imported from European palaces and country manors.
The 17th century Burgundian Library, exceptional for its vaulted, periwinkle-blue ceiling decorated with 13 biblical scenes. Walls and doors are decorated with 65 additional paintings.
Of special note is the lovely Reception Room, with exquisite hand painted 18th century wallpaper from China, and a suite of 18th century furniture, from a Venetian dressmaker's shop.
The restored Cabinet Room consisting of lacquered panels, created for the Palazzo Riccasoli in Turin in the middle of the 18th century. Very few of these once numerous lacquered rooms have survived, though they were very fashionable in England, France, Portugal and Germany as well as in Italy.
The Dining Room, lined in stunning 18th century Chinese wallpaper, made for the European market, contains a set of fourteen exquisite red-lacquered chairs, built by the English cabinetmaker Giles Grendey for the Duke of Infantado's castle of Lazcano near San Sebastian, Spain. Also in the Dining Room is an outstanding eight-fold Chinese screen with 40 panels of carved spinach-green jade set in an original carved teak frame. The screen, considered unique, depicts the Hills of Immortality, the paradise of Taoist religion.
Caramoor's Rosen House is really the most wonderful place ...
I was amazed by what is there, and what is unknown to the art world.
~ William Rieder, Curator of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts Metropolitan Museum of Art
The palatial Music Room contains sculptures, paintings, 16th century tapestries, wrought iron, stained glass, and carved pilasters and an outstanding collection of Urbino Maiolica. Bergeres, sofas and tabourets are upholstered in a needlework cornucopia of fruit and foliage. Wonderful wood carving decorates the sgabelli, chests, credenzas, trestle tables and a magnificent cassapanca created for the marriage of Piero di Bracio Alberti and Cassandra Dino in Florence in 1599. Among the fine art works are a very fine 13th century Head of Kuan Yin, a painting by Lucas Cranach (1472-1533), tin-enameled terra cotta reliefs from the workshop of Andrea della Robbia (1437-1528).
In the Master Bedroom the huge gilded bed which once belonged to Cardinal Barberini, later Pope Urban VIII, (1568-1644) takes center stage. In this room, as elsewhere throughout the house, are displayed photographs and portraits of family members, reminding the visitor that the Rosen House was originally a family home.
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La Loggia Bedroom
18th century
Tempera on paper
Panels from Villa La Loggia,
near Turin, Italy |
Eight Fold Jade Screen
Carved on both sides
Gilded Teak Frame
18th century, Chinese, Ch'ing Dinasty (Ch'ien Lung period) |
Guided Tours of the stunning mansion are offered Wednesday to Friday and Sunday from 1:15pm to 4:00pm with the last tour at 3:00pm; Saturdays 1:15pm to 4:00pm (during Festival to 5:00pm with the last tour at 4:00pm). Tour price (including exhibition): $10.00; children under 16 free. If you plan to come with a group, please call the Rosen House at 914.232.5035 ext. 221 or 223 to make plans in advance. |
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Rosen House Tours
The Mediterranean-style mansion is the heart of Caramoor, and it showcases Walter and Lucie Rosen's magnificent fine and decorative art collection. On the docent-led tour you will see paintings, sculpture, furniture, textiles, Russian icons, wall decorations, stained glass, tapestries and a major jade collection. We are proud that Caramoor is one of just five House Museums in the country that incorporates entire rooms found in European villas and palaces. On view through October 18, 2009 - From Here to Eternity: Popular Female Deities in Chinese Art. For more information on this show click here.
Tours are Wednesday to Friday and Sunday, 1:15pm - 4:00pm (last tour at 3:00pm), Saturday 1:15pm - 4:00pm (5:00pm during Festival, last tour at 4:00pm). Call the Rosen House to make an appointment at 914.232.5035 ext. 221
Tickets: $10.00; *Groups - $9.00; children under 16 FREE
Guided tour of Rosen House - 1 hour
*If you plan to come with a group, please call the Rosen House at 914.232.5035 ext. 221 or 223 to make plans in advance. |
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