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Image: George de Forest Brush, An Aztec Sculptor, 1887, 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, 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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Lectures

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

Sirens, Sea Unicorns, and Aquatic Angels: Fantastic Marine Creatures from Renaissance Venice
September 12 at 2:00PM

Alison Luchs, curator of early European sculpture, National Gallery of Art
Book signing of The Mermaids of Venice: Fantastic Sea Creatures in Venetian Renaissance Art follows.

Arcimboldo: Lombard Painter between Leonardo and Caravaggio
September 19 at 2:00PM

Sylvia Ferino-Pagden, curator of Italian Renaissance art, Kunsthistorisches Museum
Book signing of Arcimboldo: 1526–1593 follows.

Edvard Munch: Understanding His Master Prints
September 26 at 2:00PM

Elizabeth Prelinger, Keyser Family Professor of Art History and Modern Art, Georgetown University, and Andrew Robison, senior curator of prints and drawings, National Gallery of Art
Book signing of Edvard Munch: Master Prints follows.

What I Saw: An Art Critic's Report on Forty Years in Washington
October 3 at 2:00PM

Paul Richard, art critic 1967–2009, The Washington Post

The Greatest Unknown Work of Art in America
October 10 at 2:00PM

Richard Brettell, Margaret McDermott Distinguished Chair of Art and Aesthetics, Interdisciplinary Program in Arts and Humanities, University of Texas at Dallas

The New Acropolis Museum: A Conversation with Dimitrios Pandermalis
October 17 at 2:00PM

Dimitrios Pandermalis, president of the board of directors, Acropolis Museum, and professor of archaeology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, in conversation with Selma Holo, professor of art history and director of the International Museum Institute, University of Southern California, and Faya Causey, head of academic programs, National Gallery of Art.

Puvis de Chavannes and the Invention of Modernism: Parsing the National Gallery of Art Paintings
October 24 at 2:00PM

Aimée Brown Price, art historian, curator, and critic
Book signing of Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, Volume I: The Art and His Art, and Volume II: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Painted Work follows.

Michelangelo: In the Beginning
October 31 at 2:00PM

John T. Spike, faculty of the masters in sacred architecture, arts, and liturgy organized by the European University of Rome and the Pontifical Athenaeum, "Regina Apostolorum"
Book signing of Young Michelangelo: The Path to the Sistine follows.

Works in Progress: Mondays

This lunchtime series highlights new research by Gallery staff, interns, fellows, and special guests. The 30-minute talks are followed by question-and-answer periods.

Mark Rothko: You Have to Start Somewhere
September 27 at 12:10PM, 1:10PM

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

Material as Metaphor: Non-Conscious Thinking in Seventeenth-Century Painting Practice
October 4 at 12:10PM, 1:10PM

Melanie Gifford, research conservator, National Gallery of Art

Why Artists Plant Trees: Nature, Sculpture, and Public Art
October 18 at 12:10PM, 1:10PM

Mechtild Widrich, lecturer, Akademie der bildenden Künste, Vienna

Why Make Prints? An Artist's Epiphanies
October 25 at 12:10PM, 1:10PM

Charlie Ritchie, associate curator of modern prints and drawings, National Gallery of Art

Notable Lectures Podcasts

Notable Lectures give access to special Gallery talks by well-known curators, historians, and authors.
 

The Diamonstein-Spielvogel Lecture Series

 
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