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'A Pageant for a Prince' Lecture Apr. 30
Story posted April 27, 2008
Guillaume Dupré, French, ca. 1574-1642, Maria Maddalena of Austria, Grand Duchess of Tuscany (1589-1631), 1613, bronze, hollow cast. Bowdoin College Museum of Art.
Maria Ruvoldt, a specialist in Italian Renaissance art, will give a presentation titled "A Pageant for a Prince: The Wedding of Francesco de' Medici and Joanna of Austria" at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 30, 2008, in the Visual Arts Center, Beam Classroom.
The talk is open to the public and admission is free.
Ruvoldt is assistant professor in the Department of Art History and Music at Fordham University, where she has taught since 2007. She previously taught at the Cooper-Hewitt Museum Master's Program in the History of Decorative Art, and at the Bard Graduate Center.
She is the author of The Italian Renaissance Imagery of Inspiration: Metaphors of Sex, Sleep, and Dreams.
Her Bowdoin talk is presented through the support of the Jasper Jacob Stahl Lectureship in the Humanities Fund and in conjunction with the Bowdoin College Museum of Art's major exhibition Beauty and Duty: The Art and Business of Renaissance Marriage.