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Lecture Abstracts Archive

Image: Possibly Isfahan 17th Century Medallion and Animal Carpet, c. 1600 Widener Collection 1942.9.477   Image: Leonardo da Vinci Ginevra de' Benci, c. 1474/1478 Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund 1967.6.1.a   Image: Jackson Pollock Number 7, 1951, 1951 Gift of the Collectors Committee © 1997 Pollock-Krasner Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York 1983.77.1   Image: Andy Goldsworthy Roof, February 2005 Photo: Lee Ewing, National Gallery of Art   Image:Jean-Antoine Houdon Voltaire, 1778 Widener Collection 1942.9.127

Offered in conjunction with National Gallery exhibitions and special lecture series.

Sights and Sounds of Eighteenth-Century Venice (April 2011)

Truth to Nature: British Photography and Pre-Raphaelitism (January 2011)

The Early Modernists and America (November 2010)

Symposium: Robert Frank and The Photographic Book, 1930–1960 (January 2009)

More Than Ninety Miles Away: A Dialogue about Cuban Art (June 2008–October 2011)

Symposium: En Plein Air: Representing Landscape in Nineteenth-Century France and Britain (May 2008)

The Fifty-seventh A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts 2008: Bosch and Bruegel: Parallel Worlds (April–May, 2008)

Symposium: The Art of the American Snapshot, 1888–1978 (November 2007)

Wyeth Lecture in American Art, Ground Swell: Edward Hopper in 1939 (October 2007)

History and the New Photography (June 2007)

The Fifty-Sixth A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts: Last Looks, Last Books: The Binocular Poetry of Death (April–May, 2007)

Jasper Johns: The First Decade (April 2007)

Diamonstein-Spielvogel Lecture Series: "Theory of Boundaries": A Conversation with Mel Bochner (March 2007)

Elson Lecture: Persistence and Style, Sean Scully (March 2007)

An Inside Look at Netherlandish Diptychs (December 2006)

The Fifty-Fifth A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts: Really Old Masters: Age, Infirmity, and Reinvention (November–December, 2006)

An Expanding Vision: Constable and the Transformation of Landscape (October 2006)

Rediscovering Venetian Renaissance Painting (September 2006)

Charles Sheeler: Across Media (June 2006)

Cézanne's Provence (May 2006)

The Fifty-Fourth A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts: "Great Work": Terms of Aesthetic Experience in Ancient Mesopotamia (April–May, 2005)

The Edgar P. Richardson Symposium: Gilbert Stuart (April 2005)

On the Place Pigalle: Art at the Heart of Montmartre (April 2005)

Diamonstein-Spielvogel Lecture Series: Andy Goldsworthy (January 2005)

The Dutch Interior (January 2005)

Gerard ter Borch: Contemplating the Interior (November 2004)

Artistic Exchange on the Mediterranean Rim: Islamic, Byzantine, and European Art (October and November 2004)

Dan Flavin: A Retrospective (October 2004)

Sanford Gifford (September 2004)

The Fifty-Third A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts: More Than Meets the Eye (April–May 2004)

New Discoveries in the Art of the Ancient Maya (April 2004)

Diamonstein-Spielvogel Lecture Series: The Intelligence of Picasso (December 2003)

A Day in the Life (November 2003)

Portraiture in the 18th Century (May 2003)

The Fifty-Second A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts: Pictures of Nothing: Abstract Art since Pollock (April–May 2003)

The Art of Darkness: Frederic Remington's Nocturnes (April 2003)

Vuillard (February 2003)

Goya's Images of Women (March 2002)

Henry Moore (November 2001)

Beauty Adorns Virtue: Renaissance Portraits of Women (October 2001)

 

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