March 18 through May 13 Wednesdays and Saturdays at 10:15
East Building auditorium
This series presents an overview of art in Italy in the fourteenth, fifteenth,
and sixteenth centuries, an era marked by political, social, and economic change
that contributed to unprecedented ferment and creativity in the arts. The
six-part series will survey painting, sculpture, and printmaking in the major art
centers of Renaissance Italy.
MARCH 18 AND 22 Painting in Siena in the Fourteenth Century
MARCH 25 AND 29 Painting in Florence in the Fifteenth Century
APRIL 5 AND 8 Painting in Rome in the Sixteenth Century
Lectures given by National Gallery of Art staff and distinguished
scholars at 4:00 in the East Building auditorium
March 5 Conversations with Artists: Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen
March 12 Rembrandt and Dou: The Self as Subject in Seventeenth-Century Dutch
Painting Ronni Baer, independent scholar, Atlanta
March 19 Three Decades After the End of Art
March 26 Master Narratives and Critical Principles