Article: These bronze stars speak across centuries

There are, by chance, two shows of small bronze sculptures in the Boston area just now, and although separated by several hundred years, they have something to say to each other across the chasm of time. It's a conversation whose topics range from how the tiny can seem monumental to how a society does, or does not, share in understanding a particular iconography.

"Renaissance and Baroque Bronzes from the Alexis Gregory Collection," at Harvard University's Fogg Art Museum through June 22, includes dozens of little works: mostly figurative, mostly from northern Italy, mostly 16th and 17th century. These rarefied objects were intended for the private delectation -- and sometimes devotion -- of ...

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