SPOTLIGHT TOUR: Virgin and Child with Saints
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Ashley Offill, curator of collections, delves into the stories and histories of the Hood Museum’s early-16th-century Italian painting "Virgin and Child with Saints" by Perugino.
When
Sunday, October 27, 2024
3:00-3:30PM
Where
Hood Museum of Art
sponsor
Hood Museum of Art
Intended Audience(s)
Public
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Ashley Offill, curator of collections, delves into the stories and histories of the Hood Museum of Art’s early-16th-century Italian painting Virgin and Child with Saints by Perugino. Join us for a close look at this work before it briefly leaves the galleries to make way for another exciting exhibition! Free and open to all. No registration necessary. Space is limited to 20 people on a first-come, first served basis.
The Hood Museum of Art and the Hopkins Center are teaming up to present an afternoon deep dive into the life and times of Pietro di Cristofor Vannucci, called Perugino. Regarded by many of his contemporaries as the leading painter associated with the revival of Italian art at the end of the 15th century, Pietro Perugino was widely praised for introducing a style of painting characterized by a unique mastery of perspective, line, and the color. Join us for this two-part program, beginning with a focused exploration of the artist’s painting Virgin with Child and Saints, on view at the Hood Museum of Art. Then, walk next door to the Loew Auditorium in the Black Family Visual Arts Center for a special screening of a documentary film about the artist’s works and life.
4:00 pm
Loew Auditorium, Black Family Visual Arts Center
FILM SCREENING
Perugino: Eternal Renaissance (80 min.)
This visually rich documentary leads the audience on a guided discovery of the artist’s harmonious work. Perugino employs a perfect balance between humans and nature, realism and idealism, as seen in paintings such as The Delivery of the Keys in the Vatican’s Sistine Chapel, Lamentation over the Dead Christ in the Galleria Palatina in Florence, and the Pietà and Agony in the Garden in the Uffizi Gallery.
For more information, contact:
Sharon Reed
Sharon.L.Reed@dartmouth.edu
6036462808
Permanent URL: https://hoodmuseum.dartmouth.edu/events/event?event=74979