Event ID # 93404
Date:
Thursday, November 5, 2009
 Time:
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Event:

Reading the Bible through Images in the Sixteenth-Century Low Countries
Host:

Michael C. Carlos Museum
Location:

(Druid Hills)   Google Map
571 South Kilgo Cr, Atlanta, GA 30322
Contact:
Priyanka Sinha		 Phone:
404-727-4282
Email:
Website:
http://www.carlos.emory.edu
Price:
Free
Full details:
The task of reading and interpreting the Bible is complex. In a lecture titled Reading the Bible through Images in the Sixteenth-Century Low Countries, Dr. Walter Melion, co-curator of Scripture for the Eyes and Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Art History at Emory University, explores this topic as he decodes several prints from the exhibition. For example, in Balaam and the Angel in a Panoramic Landscape, Maarten van Heemskerck uses a new pictorial format and a relatively new subject — the biblical landscape— to explore the theme of prophecy in the complex scriptural text Numbers 22-24.  Other works to be discussed include Jan Swart van Groningen’s Christ Preaching from the Ship and several emblems from Benito Arias Montano’s Monuments of Human Salvation.
Educational Programs in conjunction with the exhibition were made possible by grants from Ed and Dina Snow and Burr & Forman LLP, Emory College of Arts & Sciences Center for Creativity and the Arts, the David Goldwasser Series in Religion and the Arts, the Emory University Strategic Initiative in Religion and the Arts, the Hightower Lecture Fund, and the Lovis Corinth Lecture Fund.