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Image: George de Forest Brush (1854/1855–1941), An Aztec Sculptor, 1887, oil on panel, 31.8 x 58.9 cm (12 1/2 x 23 3/16 in.), National Gallery of Art, Gift (Partial and Promised) of the Ann and Tom Barwick Family Collection, 2005.107.1Image: One of a pair of pendants showing the Dragon Master, Tillya Tepe, Tomb II, Second quarter of the 1st century AD, Gold, turquoise, garnet, lapis lazuli, carnelian and pearls, National Museum of Afghanistan, Photo © Thierry Ollivier/Musée GuimetImage: Martin Puryear, Lever No. 3, 1989, Gift of the Collectors Committee, 1989.71.1Image: Jean Poyet, The Coronation of Solomon by the Spring of Gihon, c. 1500, Patrons' Permanent Fund, 2006.111.3

Lecture-related events are free and open to the public. Seating is available on a first-come, first-seated basis. Registration is not required.

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Weekend Lectures

Lectures are free and open to the public. Seating is available on a first-come, first-seated basis. Registration is not required.

The Carraccis' "Butcher Shop": Reforming the Nature of Painting
May 18 at 2:00PM

Gail Feigenbaum, associate director for programs, exhibitions and publications, Getty Research Institute

Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures from the National Museum, Kabul
May 25 at 2:00PM

Fredrik T. Hiebert, director of the Afghanistan Project, National Geographic Society
Book signing to follow

Franz Liszt: Sacred Text and Sacred Art
June 1 at 2:00PM

David Cannata, associate professor of music history, Temple University; Nicolas Dufetel, professor, Université François-Rabelais de Tours, France

June 8 at 2:00PM

Richard Misrach, photographer

To Catch a Chameleon: Dramatic Artifice in the Art of Piero di Cosimo
June 15 at 2:00PM

Dennis V. Geronimus, associate professor of art history, New York University

Martin Puryear: "Sculpture That Tries to Describe Itself to the World"
June 22 at 2:00PM

Ruth Fine, curator of special projects in modern art, National Gallery of Art

Alexander Calder, Modernist
July 13 at 2:00PM

Russell Sale, lecturer, National Gallery of Art

Making it Here: Washington's Own Sculptors
July 20 at 2:00PM

Sally Shelburne, lecturer, National Gallery of Art

David Smith, American Totem
July 27 at 2:00PM

Wilford W. Scott, lecturer, National Gallery of Art

Constantin Brancusi and Postwar Sculpture in the United States
August 3 at 2:00PM

David Gariff, lecturer, National Gallery of Art

Max Ernst in America
August 10 at 2:00PM

Christopher With, coordinator of art information, National Gallery of Art

The Light of the Imagination: Canaletto, Turner, Whistler, Hopper
August 17 at 2:00PM

Eric Denker, lecturer, National Gallery of Art

The "Grand Tour" and Eighteenth–Century Taste in Sculpture
August 24 at 2:00PM

Lecture in tribute to Philip Leonard
David Gariff, lecturer, National Gallery of Art

Works in Progress: Mondays
Printmaking, Politics, and the Foundation of the Royal Academy of Arts in 1768
May 12 at 12:10PM, 1:10PM

Lars Kokkonen, graduate curatorial intern, National Gallery of Art

"Altdeutsche Kostbarkeiten": Notes on the Provenance of Rogier van der Weyden's "Portrait of a Lady"
May 19 at 12:10PM, 1:10PM

Oliver Tostmann, graduate curatorial intern, National Gallery of Art

Leo Villareal
June 2 at 12:10AM, 1:10PM

Molly Donovan, associate curator of modern and contemporary art, National Gallery of Art

Life as Masquerade: Thomas Rowlandson and the Theater
June 9 at 12:10PM, 1:10PM

David Essex, curatorial assistant, department of Italian and Spanish paintings, National Gallery of Art

No Rum or Cigars: Permissible Souvenirs from a Cuban Tour, 2004–2006
June 16 at 12:10PM, 1:10PM

Michelle Bird, curatorial assistant, department of French paintings, National Gallery of Art

Special Lecture Series
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.

The Sixties: Pop Art and Postwar European Art
May 1 at 10:15AM

May 3 at 10:15AM

David Gariff

Art of the Pluralist Seventies
May 8, 10 at 10:15AM

Sally Shelburne

Art at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
May 15, 17 at 10:15AM

Sally Shelburne

The Fifty-Seventh A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts 2008

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."

The Human Condition
April 6 at 2:00PM
Enmity
April 13 at 2:00PM
Devilries
April 20 at 2:00PM
"Self" Portraiture
April 27 at 2:00PM
Epiphanies of Human Making
May 4 at 2:00PM
In Pursuit of the Ordinary
May 11 at 2:00PM
Symposium: En Plein Air: Representing Landscape in Nineteenth-Century France and Britain
Towards Impressionism? Barbizon in Context
May 2 at 3:30PM

John House, Walter H. Annenberg Professor, Courtauld Institute of Art

En Plein Air: Representing Landscape in Nineteenth-Century France and Britain
May 3 at 12:30PM

Illustrated lectures by René Boitelle, Anthea Callen, Michael Clarke, Dominique de Font-Réaulx, Duncan Forbes, and Christopher Otter

Anatomy of Art: Photography in the Nineteenth Century

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.

A History of the Camera in the Nineteeth Century
May 16, 17 at 1:00PM

Jack Wilgus, Maryland Institute College of Art

Calotype Photography
May 23 at 12:00PM

Mark Osterman and France Scully Osterman, photographic process historians

The Collodion Process
May 24 at 12:00PM

Mark Osterman and France Scully Osterman, photographic process historians

The Conservation and Preservation of Nineteenth-Century Photographic Materials
June 3 at 2:00PM

Adrienne Lundgren, Library of Congress

Demonstration: A "View Camera" and the Images It Produces
June 8, 11–14 at 3:00PM

Adam Davies, photographer

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