January 11, 2006
Pilgrims, Martyrs, and Mosaics: Cardinal Pietro Aldobrandini
and the Jubilee of 1600
Xavier F. Salomon, The Frick Collection
Between 1592 and 1605, Cardinal Pietro Aldobrandini was one of the most powerful men in Papal Rome under his uncle Pope Clement VIII. Focusing on the Jubilee of 1600, when hundreds of thousands of pilgrims came to the city to worship, this talk analyzed Aldobrandini’s architectural and artistic patronage and the ways in which he, and other cardinals, prepared for the celebration.
February 1, 2006
Beauty in the Details
Elizabeth Murray, artist
A painter examined some of her favorite canvases in The Frick Collection.
This lecture, part of the Artists, Poets, and Writers Lecture Series, is made possible through the generous support of the Drue Heinz Trust.
March 1, 2006
The View from Bordeaux: Looking Back on Goya’s Life
Janis A. Tomlinson, Director, University Museums, University of Delaware
In 1824, at age seventy-eight, the Spanish artist Francisco de Goya settled in Bordeaux, where he remained until his death four years later. In this lecture, 1824 serves as a pivotal point from which to look back on the evolution of Goya’s life and art and also to consider how this evolution led to the creation of the works he produced while in Bordeaux.
April 13, 2006
Dürer’s Hands
Joseph Leo Koerner, Professor of Art History, Courtauld Institute of Art
From his first extant sketch through his late-career investigations of human proportion, Albrecht Dürer often used himself as a model. The lecturer, the author of a landmark book on self-portraiture, focused on the earliest sketches Dürer made of his hands, examining the emergence of a quintessentially modern concept in art: the artwork as personal expression of its creator.
This lecture is the fourth in an annual series sponsored by the Council of The Frick Collection.
April 26, 2006
Prelude to Exile: Goya’s Theater(s) of the Absurd
Priscilla E. Muller, Curator Emerita of the Museum, The Hispanic Society of America
Dr. Muller examined Goya’s Black Paintings and his series of etchings known as the Disparates (or Proverbios), works the artist left behind in Madrid upon emigrating to France.
May 2, 2006
“Plumbing the Depths of the Human Heart” in Goya’s Graphic Work
Juliet Wilson-Bareau, independent scholar
Drawings are the most authentic, untrammeled expression of the artist’s thoughts and feelings. This lecture examined Goya’s late drawings, which sum up a lifetime’s experience while still exploring new paths.
June 14, 2006
Liotard beyond the Exhibition
Marcel Roethlisberger, Professor of Art History, Université de Genève
Many of Jean-Étienne Liotard’s pastels, miniatures, and works on paper were too fragile to travel to New York for the featured exhibition. This lecture will focus on aspects of these works, as well as on Liotard’s position in the art world during his time.
June 28, 2006
Liotard, “the Turkish Painter”
Kristel Smentek, Andrew W. Mellon Curatorial Fellow, The Frick Collection
During his lifetime, Liotard’s fame was attributable as much to his exotic appearance as it was to his art. Focusing on the artist’s four-year sojourn in Constantinople and the lifelong impact the city had on him, this lecture will explore how his Turkish themes and extraordinary self-fashioning as “le peintre turc” ensured his pan-European success.
September 13, 2006
Liotard’s Last Laugh
Edgar Munhall, Curator Emeritus, The Frick Collection
The Frick Collection’s Trompe l’Oeil painting by Liotard was the inspiration for the special exhibition Jean-Étienne Liotard (1702–1789): Swiss Master. This lecture will examine the picture within the context of the artist’s life work, relating it specifically to his late self-portrait Liotard Laughing, which also is featured in the exhibition.
Wednesday, Thursday, October 17–19, 2006
 Andrew W. Mellon: An American Life
David Cannadine, Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother Professor of History, Institute of Historical Research, University of London; Chairman of the Trustees of the National Portrait Gallery of London.
Andrew W. Mellon and Henry Clay Frick were friends for more than forty years. This series of three lectures is presented by historian David Cannadine, whose biography Mellon: An American Life will be published in the fall.
The Artists, Poets, and Writers Lecture Series is made possible through the generous support of the Drue Heinz Trust.
October 25, 2006
The Tiepolo Code
Adelheid M. Gealt, Director, Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington
This lecture places the drawings currently on exhibit in the broader context of Domenico Tiepolo’s New Testament cycle. Dr. Gealt also will examine the ways in which the artist links more than three hundred drawings while also referencing, in unique ways, his textual sources.
Presentation of this lecture has been made possible by the Italian Cultural Institute of New York.
November 8, 2006
Cimabue’s Virgin and Child: Lost and Found
Dillian Gordon, Consultant Curator of Early Italian Paintings, National Gallery, London
The authorship of the Frick’s Flagellation of Christ was confirmed in 2000 when a panel of the Virgin and Child (now in the National Gallery, London) was discovered and identified to be by Cimabue. This lecture, presented in conjunction with the current exhibition, will focus on the panel’s discovery and its implications for the understanding of thirteenth-century painting in Tuscany.
Presentation of this lecture has been made possible by the Italian Cultural Institute of New York.
November 29, 2006
Rembrandt’s Misfortune and Frick’s Fortune
Paul Crenshaw, Assistant Professor of Art History and Archaeology, Washington University in St. Louis
Dr. Crenshaw will examine the three Rembrandt paintings in The Frick Collection against the backdrop of the artist’s financial turmoil and his declaration of bankruptcy in 1656, as well as the collecting tastes of Henry Clay Frick and his contemporaries during the early twentieth century.
December 6, 2006
Frick and Rembrandt: A Passion for Genius
Nancy T. Minty, independent scholar
Henry Clay Frick’s great admiration for Rembrandt was demonstrated by his acquisition of more than twenty prints, drawings, and paintings by the artist. Among Frick’s preferred works is Rembrandt’s self-portrait of 1658, purchased at great expense in 1906, which stands out as one of the most imposing Rembrandts in America. In a year marking both the quadricentennial of Rembrandt’s birth and the hundredth anniversary of Frick’s acquisition, this lecture correlates artistic genius to a collector’s acumen, celebrating both the Old Master and the master collector. |
