Thursday, April 10, 2008
6:00 pm
Taylor Hall, 203
"Mementi Mori in the Andes," Suzanne Stratton-Pruitt. Dr. Stratton-Pruitt was for many years a scholar of Spanish art of the sixteenth through eighteenth centuries. She organized exhibitions and published books about such Spanish Golden Age luminaries as Murillo, Velazquez, and Goya. More recently, she has moved her focus to South America during those same centuries, co-curating, with Joseph J. Rishel, the exhibition "The Arts in Latin America 1492-1820" (Philadelphia Museum of Art; Antiguo Colegio de San Ildefonso, Mexico City, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2006-7). She also curated and edited the catalogue of the exhibition "The Virgin, Saints, and Angels: South American Paintings 1600-1825," organized with the Cantor Art Center at Stanford University, which traveled to six venues during 2006 2008.
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