What's Going On at MEMS?
Dear Friends,
MEMS continues to sponsor the Premodern Colloquium (meets Sunday afternoons once a month) as well as occasional MEMS Lectures.
We hope you will join us, and watch the website calendar of events for upcoming lectures and other activities of interest!
Medieval Lunch. A Saint and his Fighting Peasants: Research into a Genre Painting from the Dutch Golden Age
Martin Walsh, Residential College
The venerable icon of the "Charity of St. Martin" (a knight slicing his cloak to share it with a naked beggar) underwent a curious transformation in the genre painting of the Dutch Golden Age. Martin's Charity became compromised by the inclusion of battling peasants and other mendicants around the central figures. With a focus on a recently acquired panel attributed to the Utrecht painter Jost Corneslisz Droochsloot, Prof. Walsh will explore the religious, popular cultural, and art historical questions raised by this manipulation of standard iconography.
| Building: | Tisch Hall |
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| Event Type: | Workshop / Seminar |
| Tags: | Art, European, Graduate, History |
| Source: | Happening @ Michigan from Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS) |
