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3:30pm – 4:30pm

Gallery Talk

Theatricality in Rubens’s Triumphal Entry of 1635

Two-Point Perspective Gallery Talk

Arthur M. Sackler Museum @ 485 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02138

Ivan Gaskell, Margaret S. Winthrop Curator, Harvard Art Museum/Fogg Museum, and senior lecturer, Department of History, Harvard University; and Robert Scanlan, professor of the practice of theater, Harvard University

Much of what we think of as theatrical (costumes, arrangements, framing) was invented by painters. This applies to Rubens’s arches and stages for the procession of the Cardinal-Infante Ferdinand through Antwerp in 1635. Yet actors also performed in these settings. The speakers will examine both the theatricality of the decorations and the various performances. In connection with Rubens and the Baroque Festival, one of a series of rotating thematic installations on display in conjunction with the ongoing exhibition Re-View. On view March 19—August 28, 2010 at the Harvard Art Museum/Arthur M. Sackler Museum.

This popular gallery talk series considers objects from more than one point of view. The informal talks, many of them by Harvard Art Museum curators, conservators, and educators and Harvard University faculty members, are designed to stimulate thinking about works of art and encourage participants to explore their own ways of seeing.

Free with the price of admission. Open to the public.
Gallery talks are informal and include discussion. Limited to 25 participants; please arrive early.

For more information, please contact Susannah Hutchison at 617-496-8576 or susannah_hutchison@harvard.edu.