Wednesday, January 30, 2008
Painting Desire: Parmigianino’s Antea
Christina Neilson, Andrew W. Mellon Curatorial Fellow, The Frick Collection
Parmigianino’s Antea (c. 1531– 34) is recognized as one of the great portraits of the Italian Renaissance, but who or what is the subject of the painting? Does Antea represent a bride, a courtesan, a member of a noble Italian family, a servant, or Parmigianino’s mistress? Drawing from recent research, Christina Neilson, the organizer of the Frick’s special exhibition Parmigianino’s Antea: A Beautiful Artifice, will discuss the different proposals about the sitter’s identity and present a new interpretation of the painting.
Presentation of this lecture is made possible by the Italian Cultural Institute of New York.
Wednesday, March 19, 2008
Parmigianino and Portraits
David Ekserdjian, Professor of History of Art and Film, University of Leicester
Parmigianino was one of the most prolific and remarkable portraitists active in Italy during the first half of the sixteenth century. This lecture will place the Antea within the larger context of Parmigianino’s portraits, focusing on the surprising number of discoveries that have been made in this area. David Ekserdjian is the author of many studies on Parmigianino, including the most recent monograph on the artist.
Presentation of this lecture is made possible by the Italian Cultural Institute of New York.
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
Portraying Beauty: Parmigianino and His Contemporaries
Elizabeth Cropper, Dean, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Elizabeth Cropper, known for her studies on female beauty in the Renaissance, especially in the work of Parmigianino, will talk about the Antea in relation to other portraits by the artist, and to the portraiture of such contemporaries as Pontormo, Bronzino, and Titian. She also will consider Parmigianino’s preoccupation with self-presentation in terms of style and substance.
Wednesday, April 2, 2008
Porcelain Pleasures and Royal Treasures: Meissen Porcelain, c. 1710–50
Maureen Cassidy-Geiger, Curator, The Arnhold Collection of Meissen Porcelain
Into the early eighteenth century, Asian porcelain was a fragile and valuable curiosity, greatly prized for its whiteness and translucency and worthy of the Kunstkammers, or art cabinets, of royalty. The formula for creating this material eluded European ceramists until the founding of the Royal Porcelain Manufactory at Meissen, outside Dresden, in 1710. This lecture, presented by the guest curator of the Frick’s special exhibition, will explore the manufactory’s early production and how it set the standards and trends for the European porcelain industry that followed in its wake.
Wednesday, April 30, at 6:00 p.m.
This lecture is the sixth in the annual series sponsored by the Council of The Frick Collection.
Mr. Frick’s Palace
Hilary Ballon, Professor and Vice Chancellor, New York University Abu Dhabi
Even among the mansions of Fifth Avenue, Henry Clay Frick’s residence was like no other. Conceived from the first on an institutional scale, the building was designed by Thomas Hastings, of Carrère and Hastings, and completed in 1912–14, with subsequent additions. The lecture will set the monumental building in the context of a changing city, the architectural rivalries of the time, and Frick’s unrestrained ambition.
Wednesday, May 7, at 6:00 p.m.
Alex Gordon Lecture in the History of Art
Dutch Moderns at the Frick
Mariët Westermann, Vice Chancellor, New York University Abu Dhabi, and Professor of Fine Arts, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
Henry Clay Frick collected some of the finest seventeenth-century Dutch pictures on the market, recognizing, in a sense, their fundamental modernity. The lecturer will discuss how artists such as Rembrandt and Vermeer were indeed the moderns of their time and how the display of their paintings at the Frick underscores this status. |
