Susan E. Wegner will be speaking on conflict and contest in Renaissance marriage imagery in the Museum of Art at 7:00 p.m. Thursday evening July 10, 2008. Professor Wegner will discuss images of battles, tournaments, and violence painted on marriage chests in 15th century Italy. Further, how do such stories as a shepherd abducting a nymph, Greeks warring with Amazon women, armored horses and knights clashing in a public square relate to ideas about marriage of that time? Susan Wegner is Associate Professor of Art History at Bowdoin College and Curator of Beauty and Duty: The Art and Business of Renaissance Marriage. The gallery talk is free and open to the public.
Please visit the Museum to see Beauty and Duty: The Art and Business of Renaissance Marriage, open to the public through July 27, 2008.
