January 12, 2000
Liotard’s Last Laugh: The Art of Jean-Etienne Liotard (1702-80)
Edgar Munhall, Curator, The Frick Collection
An analysis of the artist’s Trompe l’Oeil painting recently given to The Frick Collection revealed the rich variety of this little-known master’s work, culminating in his self-portraits.
February 23, 2000
Velázquez’s Portraits of Philip IV
Jonathan Brown, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
The speaker will trace the evolution of Velázquez’s likenesses of his patron with reference to the tradition of Spanish Hapsburg portraiture.
April 5, 2000
Bellini and the Production of Devotional Paintings
Keith Christiansen, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
This lecture will examine the range of Bellini’s achievement as a painter of devotional imagery, from traditional, half-length images of the Virgin and Child to the new genre of devotional paintings with an extensive landscape setting—of which The Frick Collection’s St. Francis in the Desert is the masterpiece.
May 9, 2000
Portraits in The Frick Collection
Chuck Close, Artist
The eminent contemporary portraitist will discuss some of the exceptional portraits that hang in The Frick Collection.
May 24, 2000
Italian Drawings in the Graphische Sammlung Albertina
Carmen C. Bambach, Metropolitan Museum of Art
An expert on Italian drawings examines the extraordinary holdings of the Albertina in this area, many examples of which will be on view in this spring’s exhibition.
June 7, 2000
Notes from a Conservator’s Diary
Sveteslao Hlopoff, The Frick Collection
Retiring after thirty-five years as Conservator of decorative objects at The Frick Collection, the speaker will concentrate on his treatment of French eighteenth-century furniture and gilt bronzes, as well as objects in marble. Special emphasis will be given to the care of objets d’art and measures that are taken to avoid future problems.
September 13, 2000
First Impressions: Collecting Open-Air Landscape Sketches
Charlotte Gere, London
The speaker remembers how it was to rediscover the European tradition of open-air painting as practiced before the Impressionist era, and the difficulties and rewards of collecting in an unknown field.
October 18, 2000
Understanding Italian Renaissance Bronzes
Claudia Kryza-Gersch, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Taking the rich holdings of Italian Renaissance bronzes in The Frick Collection as a point of departure, the speaker will explore different types of small bronzes, their function, and their production, with emphasis on the situation in Venice in the late sixteenth century.
November 15, 2000
The Return of the Don Quixote Tapestries
Charissa Bremer-David, J. Paul Getty Museum
The lecture will focus on two tapestries in The Frick Collection, The Arrival of Dancers at the Wedding of Camacho and Sancho Panza’s Departure for the Isle of Barataria. The tapestries, a bequest from Childs Frick, have recently been conserved and for the first time are to be placed on view in the Collection.
December 13, 2000
The Black and White Collection
Michael Clarke, National Gallery of Scotland
The speaker will describe the National Gallery’s Prints and Drawings Collection and its changing fortunes over the years.
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