Thu, May 29, 6 pm | Leslie Cheek Theater
Taste and the Antique: An Art History Classic Forty Years On
with Dr. Adriano Aymonino, Director of the MA in Art Market, Provenance, and the History of Collecting at the University of Buckingham, and Dr. Sylvain Cordier, VMFA’s Paul Mellon Curator and Head of the Department of European Art
Originally published in 1981, Francis Haskell and Nicholas Penny’s Taste and the Antique: The Lure of Classical Sculpture, 1500–1900 offered the first accessible introduction to the enormous impact of ancient sculpture on Western visual arts and culture. Join Dr. Adriano Aymonino and Dr. Sylvain Cordier for a presentation and discussion of Dr. Aymonino’s revised and expanded edition of this art history classic, published in three volumes in December 2024 with support from VMFA and the Joseph and Robert Cornell Memorial Foundation.
To register, please select the date of the lecture, May 29, on the calendar below.
Modernism’s Ambivalences: Charles Ethan Porter’s "Chrysanthemums", c. 1881
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