Special Lectures

Lecture Series: Renaissance Art in Italy: Painting, Sculpture, and Printmaking

Frances Feldman, lecturer

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



Sunday Lectures

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


1995 Andrew W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts

Contemporary Art and the Pale of History
Arthur C. Danto, Columbia University
March 19 through May 14
Sundays at 4:00 in the East Building auditorium

March 19 Three Decades After the End of Art

March 26 Master Narratives and Critical Principles

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