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Lecture-related events are free and open to the public. Seating is available on a first-come, first-seated basis. Registration is not required.
Lecture Abstracts Archive
Lectures are free and open to the public. Seating is available on a first-come, first-seated basis. Registration is not required.
Gail Feigenbaum, associate director for programs, exhibitions and publications, Getty Research Institute
Fredrik T. Hiebert, director of the Afghanistan Project, National Geographic Society
Book signing to follow
David Cannata, associate professor of music history, Temple University; Nicolas Dufetel, professor, Université François-Rabelais de Tours, France
Dennis V. Geronimus, associate professor of art history, New York University
Ruth Fine, curator of special projects in modern art, National Gallery of Art
Sally Shelburne, lecturer, National Gallery of Art
David Gariff, lecturer, National Gallery of Art
Christopher With, coordinator of art information, National Gallery of Art
Eric Denker, lecturer, National Gallery of Art
Lecture in tribute to Philip LeonardDavid Gariff, lecturer, National Gallery of Art
Lars Kokkonen, graduate curatorial intern, National Gallery of Art
Oliver Tostmann, graduate curatorial intern, National Gallery of Art
Molly Donovan, associate curator of modern and contemporary art, National Gallery of Art
David Essex, curatorial assistant, department of Italian and Spanish paintings, National Gallery of Art
Michelle Bird, curatorial assistant, department of French paintings, National Gallery of Art
Overview of Western Art: Medieval to Modern
Examining the context for works in the National Gallery of Art collections, this academic-year lecture series explores the development of painting, sculpture, and architecture from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century. The lectures are given by Gallery lecturers.
Bosch and Bruegel: Parallel Worlds
Joseph Leo Koerner, Harvard University
The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts were established by the National Gallery of Art's Board of Trustees in 1949 "to bring to the people of the United States the results of the best contemporary thought and scholarship bearing upon the subject of the Fine Arts."
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John House, Walter H. Annenberg Professor, Courtauld Institute of Art
Illustrated lectures by René Boitelle, Anthea Callen, Michael Clarke, Dominique de Font-Réaulx, Duncan Forbes, and Christopher Otter
Gallery talks, lectures, and demonstrations focus on the equipment and processes employed by early photographic artists. Photographs may be viewed in the exhibitions Impressed by Light: British Photographs from Paper Negatives, 1840–1860 and In the Forest of Fontainebleau: Painters and Photographers from Corot to Monet.
Jack Wilgus, Maryland Institute College of Art
Mark Osterman and France Scully Osterman, photographic process historians
Mark Osterman and France Scully Osterman, photographic process historians
Adrienne Lundgren, Library of Congress
Adam Davies, photographer
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