New York Renaissance Consortium Events
Summer 2012
Wednesday, May 16, 6 p.m.
Pesellino: Master Painter of Renaissance Florence
Speaker: Nathaniel Silver, The Frick Collection
Free after 5:45 p.m.; no reservations necessary
Organized by The Frick Collection
The Music Room, The Frick Collection, 1 East 70th St, New York, NY
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Between 1440 and 1457 Francesco Pesellino painted for the Medici family and Pope Nicholas V, quickly earning himself a remarkable reputation in Florence. He died young, however, leaving behind few documented works. Rediscovered at the turn of the twentieth century and championed by connoisseurs such as Bernard Berenson, his jewel-like paintings fetched exceptional prices, including a record-breaking £10,000 in 1896 for his masterpiece, the Battle and Triumph of David (1452–55). This lecture will explore Pesellino's fascinating career and problematic rediscovery, revealing his pioneering role in the development of spalliera paintings, a new genre of Renaissance art.
Friday and Saturday, May 18 and 19, 10 a.m.–5 p.m.
Michelangelo and His World in the 1490s
Speakers: Denise Allen, Carmen Bambach, Peter Jonathan Bell, Kathleen Weil-Garris Brandt, Marietta Cambareri, Kathleen W. Christian, James David Draper, Charles Dempsey, Caroline Elam, Colin Eisler, Everett Fahy, James Hankins, Paul Joannides, Joost Keizer, Nicholas Penny, Patricia Rubin, Luke Syson, William E. Wallace
Free with Museum admission; reservations and tickets not required; seating on a first-come, first-served basis; assistive listening devices available from the ushers
Organized by James David Draper and Kathleen Weil-Garris Brandt with The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1000 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY
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Join international scholars to explore the pivotal decade of the 1490s in Florence and the formation and evolution of the young Michelangelo. Prompted by the recent loan by the French Republic to the Metropolitan Museum of the fragmentary marble statue Young Archer that many scholars attribute to Michelangelo, this symposium will provide occasion to reflect on the sculpture and the confluence of dramatic forces that shaped Renaissance Florence.
Friday, May 18
10 a.m. Welcome, Luke Syson, Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Curator in Charge, Department of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
10:10 a.m. Michelangelo and the Young Archer in Relation to Bertoldo di Giovanni, James David Draper, Henry R. Kravis Curator, Department of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
10:50 a.m. Revisiting Lorenzo de' Medici's Sculpture Garden, Caroline Elam, Senior Research Fellow, The Warburg Institute, University of London
11:20 a.m. Michelangelo and the Humanists, James Hankins, Professor of History, Harvard University
11:50 a.m. Florentine Art and Classical Learning: The Problem of Michelangelo's Battle of the Lapiths and Centaurs and Politian, Charles Dempsey, Professor Emeritus of Italian Renaissance and Baroque Art, The Johns Hopkins University
12:20 p.m. Break for lunch
2 p.m. Michelangelo's Archer: Culture and Style, Paul Joannides, Professor of Art History, University of Cambridge
2:30 p.m. Michelangelo and the Statuette, Peter Jonathan Bell, Research Associate, Department of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
3 p.m. Break
3:30 p.m. The Virtù of the Young Michelangelo's Drawings: Problems of Chronology, Carmen Bambach, Curator, Department of Drawings and Prints, The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Andrew W. Mellon Professor, 2010-12, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art
4 p.m. Michelangelo Historicist, Joost Keizer, Assistant Professor of the History of Art, Yale University
Saturday, May 19
10 a.m. Introductory Remarks, Patricia Rubin, Judy and Michael Steinhardt Director, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
10:30 a.m. Young Francesco Granacci, Everett Fahy, Curator Emeritus, Department of European Paintings, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
11 a.m. Schongauer: Young Michelangelo's Gothic Pattern Book, Colin Eisler, Robert Lehman Professor of Fine Arts, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
11:30 a.m. Sculpture and The Manchester Madonna, Nicholas Penny, Director, The National Gallery, London
12 p.m. Michelangelo's Other Patrons: The Strozzi, William E. Wallace, Barbara Murphy Bryant Distinguished Professor of Art History, Washington University in St. Louis
12:30 p.m. Break for lunch
2 p.m. Cardinal Riario, Michelangelo's Bacchus, and the Antique: A New Proposal, Kathleen W. Christian, Humboldt Fellow, Institut für Kunstgeschichte, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
2:30 p.m. Antico: A Fifteenth- or a Sixteenth-Century Sculptor?, Denise Allen, Curator, The Frick Collection
3 p.m. Break
3:30 p.m. Rustici's Saint John the Baptist at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: Prophet of a New Age?, Marietta Cambareri, Curator of Decorative Arts and Sculpture and Jetskalina H. Phillips Curator of Judaica, Art of Europe, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
4 p.m. Training to Become Michelangelo, Kathleen Weil-Garris Brandt, Professor of Fine Arts, Institute of Fine, Arts and College of Arts and Science, New York University
Tuesday, May 22, 11 a.m.
Revelations of Giotto’s Frescoes in Santa Croce, Florence
Speaker: Cecilia Frosini, director of the restoration of mural painting, Opificio delle Pietre Dure, Florence
Free with Museum admission
Organized by The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Bonnie J. Sacerdote Lecture Hall, Uris Center for Education, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1000 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY
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Giotto's early fourteenth-century murals in Santa Croce, Florence, are landmarks of Western art. Yet those in one of the chapels are difficult to read due to the fresco technique used by the artist and ensuing damage. Discover how recent examination with ultraviolet light has revealed previously unsuspected details, thus transforming our understanding of these great murals. Learn about the current campaign to document the findings.
Wednesday, June 13, 6 p.m.
Antico in Mantua: Friends and Foes
Speaker: Eleonora Luciano, National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
Free after 5:45 p.m.; no reservations necessary
Organized by The Frick Collection
The Music Room, The Frick Collection, 1 East 70th St, New York, NY
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In this lecture Eleonora Luciano—a co-curator of the current special exhibition—will explore Antico's artistic milieu, notably the overpowering presence of Andrea Mantegna, and will delve into the complexities of the sculptor's relationships with his Gonzaga patrons, including the renowned Isabella d'Este. Gian Marco Cavalli, a little-known goldsmith who was a collaborator of both Antico and Mantegna as well as a Gonzaga dependent, emerges as a key figure in the relationship between the two more famous artists. This lecture is made possible by the Robert H. Smith Family Foundation.
Wednesday, June 20, 6:30 p.m.
Paolo Veronese: "Marvels in Drawing and then in Coloring"
Speaker: Xavier F. Salomon, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
$15; $10 for Members; free to students with valid ID (Please call 212-685-0008 ext. 560 or email tickets@themorgan.org for information)
Organized by The Morgan Library & Museum
The Morgan Library & Museum, 225 Madison Avenue, New York, NY
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Veronese was one of the most extraordinary and prolific draftsmen in sixteenth-century Venetian art. In this lecture Xavier F. Salomon, Curator of Southern Baroque Paintings, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, will look at Veronese's compositional drawings and how they relate to his finished paintings. The analysis of the drawings will allow for a better and deeper understanding of the artist's creative process.
Saturday, July 28, 2:00 p.m.
Antico and Exhibitions
Speaker: Denise Allen, The Frick Collection
Free with museum admission; doors open at 1:45 p.m.
Organized by The Frick Collection
The Music Room, The Frick Collection, 1 East 70th St, New York, NY
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Early Renaissance masters of bronze, like Antico, whose works traditionally have been studied only by specialists, often require the attention of international exhibitions before they are propelled from the margins of art history into the scholarly mainstream. On the closing weekend of Antico: The Golden Age of Renaissance Bronzes, the show's New York curator will examine recent exhibitions devoted to the artist, including the Frick presentation. She will discuss the ideas that guided the selection of works and the format of the catalogues; how the exhibitions contribute to a better understanding of the artist and his oeuvre; and some of the questions about Antico that still remain. This lecture is made possible by the Robert H. Smith Family Foundation.
Wednesday, February 1, 2-3 p.m.
Gold as Light, Light as Gold: The Tooling of Metal Leaf from Simone Martini to Pisanello, from Mimesis to the Anagogical
Speaker: Andrea De Marchi, Associate Professor, Università degli Studi di Firenze
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Bonnie J. Sacerdote Lecture Hall, Uris Center for Education, 1000 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10028
Free with Museum admission.
Thursday, February 9, 6 p.m.
Madrid, Urbs Regia: The Seventeenth-Century City and Its Representation
Speaker: Jesús Escobar, Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Art History, Northwestern University
The Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, 1 East 78th Street, New York, NY 10075
Open to the public, RSVP required. Email ifa.events@nyu.edu with "SLAC 2/9" in the subject line. This event will be followed by a reception.
Organized by the Colloquium on Spanish and Latin American Art and Visual Culture, IFA.
Thursday, February 16, 4:30-5:30 p.m.
The Shopper, the Specialist & the Supplier, or, Shaw, Bode & Bardini and the Transaction of Art
Speaker: Lynn Catterson (Leon Levy Fellow, Center for the History of Collecting, Frick Collection)
Frick Collection Music Room
Monday, March 5, 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
The Renaissance Portrait from Donatello to Bellini: An exhibition seminar for graduate students
Speakers: Keith Christiansen and Andrea Bayer, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Patricia Rubin, Institute of Fine Arts, and graduate student participants
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1000 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY
Open primarily to graduate students (and others if space permits); reservation required.
Organized by the New York Renaissance Consortium.
Keith Christiansen, John Pope-Hennessy Chairman, and Andrea Bayer, Curator, both of the Department of European Paintings at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Patricia Rubin, Judy and Michael Steinhardt Director of the Institute of Fine Arts, in collaboration with the New York Renaissance Consortium invite graduate students to participate in a seminar held in conjunction with the exhibition The Renaissance Portrait from Donatello to Bellini, on view through March 18 in the second floor Special Exhibition galleries at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
The group will meet in the galleries while the museum is closed to the public, where Keith Christiansen, Andrea Bayer and Patricia Rubin will lead in-depth discussions of the objects and of issues raised by the exhibition, such as Renaissance constructions of the individual, the politics of representation, the import of material and dimensionality, costume and pose, the significance of likeness, regional variations, and the historiography of portraiture.
Participants will be expected to have spent time in the exhibition and with the accompanying catalogue prior to the seminar, and are encouraged to consider related areas of interest in light of this extraordinary assembly of some of the finest drawn, painted and sculpted portraits of fifteenth-century Italy. The seminar will take place Monday, March 5 at 11:00 AM and last approximately two hours. Because discussion will be based on immediate reference to the works of art themselves, participation is limited to 20. The seminar is intended primarily for graduate students, but others will be allowed if space permits.
To register, please send an email to peter.bell@metmuseum.org with your name and affiliation.
Tuesday, March 6, 6:30-8 p.m.
Piero's Realism
Speakers: Joost Keizer, Assistant Professor, History of Art, Yale University
19 University Place, Room 222, New York
Free and open to the public.
Organized by the New York University Medieval and Renaissance Center.
A cult of realism re-emerged in European art in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, at the same time that artworks began to be attributed to individual artists. Paintings produced under the conditions of verisimilitude—literally, resemblance to truth—deny the fact that they are made things in order not to destroy the illusion that they perfectly imitate the real. In this talk, I will argue that painting's concern with hiding its manufacture prevented the period from formulating a strong model of individual style. Rather than understanding the authorship of painting by looking at how a picture showed, early Renaissance culture looked at what it showed. Using the art of Piero della Francesca as a relevant test case, my presentation explores the possibility that the artist's contemporaries understood painting as an index of the artist's lifeworld.
Thursday, March 8, 6-7:30 p.m.
The Fictions of Fashion in Early Modern Italy: From Costume Books to Satires (1590-1648)
Speaker: Eugenia Paulicelli, Italian and Comparative Literature, Fashion Studies, The Graduate Center/CUNY
CUNY Graduate Center, Room 9206, 365 Fifth Avenue New York, NY 10016
Cosponsored by the Women's Studies Certificate Program and the Society for the Study of Women in the Renaissance, CUNY.
Wednesday, March 14, 9:45 a.m.-2 p.m.
Graduate seminar on Borghini, Vasari, and Disegno: Experiencing and Understanding Drawings through Sixteenth-Century Eyes
Instructor: Dr. Rick Scorza, Thaw Senior Fellow, The Drawing Institute at the Morgan Library & Museum
Application required. Organized by The Drawing Institute,
Drawing Study Center and North Parlor, The Morgan Library & Museum, 225 Madison Avenue, New York
Participants will look closely at Italian Renaissance drawings in the Morgan's collection in an attempt to see them as they were viewed and understood by the sixteenth-century historian and iconographer Vincenzo Borghini and his friend, the artist-biographer Giorgio Vasari, two of the earliest collectors of drawings. Discussion will focus on issues of connoisseurship and attribution, as well as Vasari's principles of disegno and pictorial invention. Participants will be instructed in the basic visual and textual tools necessary to fruitfully navigate the early historiography of sixteenth-century Italian drawing. In the spirit of the subject, no laptops are permitted—only pencil, paper, and the drawings themselves.
The seminar is open to graduate students in the history of art. Interested participants are kindly invited to submit a one paragraph statement which should include the following:
- Academic institution
- Class year
- Field of study
- Interest in drawings
- Reason/s for wanting to participate in the seminar
A brief recommendation from the student's advisor is suggested but not required. Lunch is included. There is no charge to attend.
drawinginstitute@themorgan.org
Tuesday, March 27, 2-4 p.m.
Global Designs: Fashioning Textiles in the Early Modern World
Speaker: Giorgio Riello, History, Warwick University
CUNY Graduate Center, Room C-197, 365 Fifth Avenue New York, NY 10016
Cosponsored by the Ph. D. Program in History, Fashion Studies, and the Renaissance Studies Certificate Program, CUNY.
Wednesday, April 18, 6:30 p.m.
Vasari, Borghini and Papal Portraits
Speaker: Rick Scorza, Thaw Senior Fellow, The Drawing Institute at the Morgan Library & Museum
Free admission. Organized by The Drawing Institute, Gilder Lehrman Hall, The Morgan Library & Museum, 225 Madison Avenue, New York.
Friday, April 27-Sunday, April 29
Beyond Italy and New Spain: Itineraries for an Iberian Art History (1440-1640)
Organized by Michael Cole and Alessandra Russo. Free and open to the public.
For more information, please visit The Italian Academy website.
Wednesday, May 2, 6:00 pm
Antico: A Pioneer of Renaissance Sculpture
Speaker: Claudia Kryza-Gersch, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
The Frick Collection, 1 East 70th Street, New York, NY 10021
Free after 5:45 p.m.; no reservations are necessary.
Wednesday, September 21, 6-7 p.m.
Collecting Art during the Italian Renaissance: Rome, Florence, and Mantua
Speaker: Stephen K. Scher
Frick Museum, Music Room
Organized by The Frick Museum; no reservations necessary
For additional information, contact education@frick.org
Friday, September 23, 6 p.m.
Ambitious Form: a conversation with the author
Participants: Michael Cole, Professor of Art History, Columbia University, and Alina Payne, Professor of History of Art, Harvard University
Stronach Center, 8th floor, Schermerhorn Hall
Organized by The New York Renaissance Consortium and Columbia University; free and open to the public
The New York Renaissance Consortium is pleased to host a conversation with Michael Cole, author of Ambitious Form (Princeton University Press, 2011). The book describes the transformation of Italian sculpture during the neglected half century between the death of Michelangelo and the rise of Bernini. The book follows the Florentine careers of three major sculptors—Giambologna, Bartolomeo Ammanati, and Vincenzo Danti—as they negotiated the politics of the Medici court and eyed one another's work, setting new aims for their art in the process. Only through a comparative look at Giambologna and his contemporaries, it argues, can we understand them individually—or understand the period in which they worked. Attendees are encouraged to come with comments and questions, as a generous portion of the event will be given over to discussion between audience members and the authors. A reception will follow.
Sunday, September 25, 3 p.m.
Sunday at the Met: Frans Hals in the Metropolitan Museum
Speakers: Walter Liedtke, Curator of European Paintings, Metropolitan Museum of Art; Christopher D. M. Atkins, Assistant Professor of Art History, Queens College and The Graduate Center, City University of New York
The Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium at The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Free with Museum admission
Join us for an afternoon exploring the famous Dutch painter's life, art, and brilliant brushwork. This event is presented in conjunction with the exhibition Frans Hals in the Metropolitan Museum. Assistive listening devices are available from the ushers.
Monday, September 26, 6:15 p.m.
"The Uninvited"
Speaker: Christopher Wood
612 Schermerhorn Hall, Columbia University
Columbia University Department of Art History and Archaeology Bettman Lecture Series
Free and open to the public
Thursday, October 13, 6:30-7:30 p.m.
Building-in-time: Thinking and Making Architecture in the Premodern Era
Speaker: Marvin Trachtenberg
612 Schermerhorn Hall, Columbia University
Columbia University Department of Art History and Archaeology Branner Forum
Free and open to the public
Thursday, November 10, 6 p.m.
'Cross My Heart, Hope to Die, Stick a Needle in My Eye': Friendship, Survival, and the Pathos of Portraiture
Speaker: Maria Loh
612 Schermerhorn Hall, Columbia University
Organized by the The New York Renaissance Consortium
Free and open to the public; reception to follow
Wednesday, November 30, 6:30-8 p.m.
Francesco Mochi: Stone and Scale
Speaker: Michael Cole
Bard Graduate Center, 38 West 86th Street
Organized by the Bard Graduate Center
For additional information, call (212) 501-3019
Friday, April 27–Sunday, April 29
Beyond Italy and New Spain: Itineraries for an Iberian Art History (1440-1640)
Speakers TBA
Organized by Michael Cole and Alessandra Russo
Free and open to the public
Friday, January 21, 6 p.m.
Piero della Francesca's Flagellation: Solving an Early Renaissance Riddle of Its Commission and Meaning
Jean-Pierre De Rycke, curator, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Tournai
Bonnie J. Sacerdote Lecture Hall, Ruth and Harold D. Uris Center for education,
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1000 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY
Free with Museum admission; tickets and reservations not required
Organized by The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Tuesday, February 1, 6 p.m.
Durer's Folds
Christopher Heuer, Assistant Professor of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University
Institute of Fine Arts, NYU, 1 East 78th Street, New York, NY
Free and open to the public; seating is limited
Organized by Silberberg Lecture Series, Institute of Fine Arts
Thursday, March 10, 4:30 p.m.
"The Intimacy of Italian Renaissance Art"
Adrian Randolph, Dartmouth University
Free and open to the public
Zimmerli Art Museum, Lower Dodge Gallery
Organized by Department of Art History, Rutgers University
Tuesday, March 15, 11:15 a.m.
Jean Bourdichon: New Research on a Court Painter in Renaissance France
Nicholas Herman
Organized by Fellows Colloquia, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Bonnie J. Sacerdote Lecture Hall, Ruth and Harold D. Uris Center for Education, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1000 Fifth Avenue, New York
For further information, contact Marcie Karp at (212) 650-2763
Saturday, March 19, 8:45 a.m.-5:30 p.m.
New Perspectives on the Man of Sorrows: Art and Devotion in Renaissance Venice and the North
William Barcham, John Sawyer, Lyle Humphrey, Mitchell Merback, Colum Hourihane, Frederick Ilchman, Stefania Mason, Catherine Puglisi
A symposium in conjunction with the exhibition Passion in Venice: Crivelli to Tintoretto and Veronese (The Man of Sorrows in Venetian Art), at the Museum of Biblical Art, 1865 Broadway, New York, on view February 11–June 11, 2011. Symposium to be followed by a choral concert by the Collegium Musicum of Rutgers.
Full program
Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, 1 East 78th Street, New York, NY
Admission is free but seating is limited; registration is required
Organized by William Barcham and Catherine Puglisi, co-curators of Passion in Venice, with special thanks to the Institute of Fine Arts and the Museum of Biblical Art
Monday, March 28, 1:10 p.m.
Art in Italy: 1560-1570: Decorum, Order & Reform
Michael Cole
Italian Academy, 1161 Amsterdam Ave. (Just south of 118th street), New York, NY
Organized by the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies, Columbia University
Free and open to the public; reservations recommended
For further information, contact Allison Jeffrey at aj211@columbia.edu or (212)854-8942
Tuesday, March 29, 10:30 a.m.
The Power of Transformation: Courtly Mommeries and Mascarades in Sixteenth-Century France
Yassana Croizat-Glazer
Organized by Fellows Colloquia, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Bonnie J. Sacerdote Lecture Hall, Ruth and Harold D. Uris Center for Education, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1000 Fifth Avenue, New York
For further information, contact Marcie Karp at (212) 650-2763
Wednesday, March 30, 6 p.m.
The Shadow of Light: Leonardo's Mind by Candlelight
Paolo Galluzzi
Italian Academy, 1161 Amsterdam Ave. (Just south of 118th street), New York, NY
Organized by the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies, Columbia University
Free and open to the public; reservations recommended
For further information, contact Allison Jeffrey at aj211@columbia.edu or (212)854-8942
Tuesday, April 12, 10:00 a.m.
New Discoveries in Early German Painting
Nathaniel Prottas
Organized by Fellows Colloquia, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Bonnie J. Sacerdote Lecture Hall, Ruth and Harold D. Uris Center for Education, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1000 Fifth Avenue, New York
For further information, contact Marcie Karp at (212) 650-2763
Tuesday, April 12, 10:30 a.m.
Unprinted Prints: The Etched Decoration of German Renaissance Armor
Stefan Krause
Organized by Fellows Colloquia, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Bonnie J. Sacerdote Lecture Hall, Ruth and Harold D. Uris Center for Education, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1000 Fifth Avenue, New York
For further information, contact Marcie Karp at (212) 650-2763
Thursday, April 14, 6-7:30 p.m.
'All the argument is a whore and a cuckold': Spousal de Praesenti & Marital Betrayal in Troilus and Cressida
Cristina Alfer
Room C-197, CUNY Graduate Center
Free and open to the public
Organized by the Society for Study of Women in the Renaissance
Friday, April 15, 4-6 p.m.
The Michelangelo Symposium
Leonard Barkan, Deborah Parker
Room 9027, CUNY Graduate Center
Free and open to the public; reservations recommended
Organized by the Renaissance Studies Certificate Program
Monday, April 18, 6 p.m.
Bettman Lecture Series
Patricia Rubin, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
Columbia University, 612 Schermerhorn Hall
Free and open to the public
Tuesday, May 10, 10:00 a.m.
Wearing Dürer Down: An Examination of Copper Plate Deterioration Evidenced in Albrecht Dürer's Meisterstiche Impressions
Angela Campbell
Organized by Fellows Colloquia, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Bonnie J. Sacerdote Lecture Hall, Ruth and Harold D. Uris Center for Education, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1000 Fifth Avenue, New York
For further information, contact Marcie Karp at (212) 650-2763
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