Thu, Mar 6, 2025
6:30–7:30 pm
$8 (VMFA members $5)
Leslie Cheek Theater

Join Dr. Margaret Laird to explore how, where, and why nonprofessional artists created pictorial graffiti and drawings of women on walls and other media. Although women were uncommon subjects for Pompeii’s artists, their images were nevertheless given prominence and power. This lecture has adult content, including images of graffiti with mature themes.
 
The Mary Ann Frable Lecture is presented annually by a distinguished scholar to foster the study and appreciation of ancient Mediterranean art and is supported by the Jack and Mary Ann Frable Fund for Ancient Art.
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Speaker Bio
Dr. Margaret Laird is Associate Professor of Latin and Classics at the University of Delaware. She earned her PhD from Princeton University. Her published work includes the book Civic Monuments and the Augustales in Roman Italy.
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IMAGE Agrippina the Elder, AD mid 1st century, Roman, marble. Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Adolph D. and Wilkins C. Williams Fund, 68.69