Beginning in 2010, more than 306,000 visitors saw the works of Danish painter Carl Bloch at BYU's Museum of Art. Now, thanks to an unprecedented agreement, the Frederiksberg Castle museum in Denmark will loan eight additional Bloch paintings from the King’s Oratory’s "Life of Christ" series to BYU as part of a new exhibit.
"These paintings have never before been out of the Oratory since they were installed (in the 1860s and 1870s) … and they will not be loaned again," castle director Mette Skougaard said in a press release.