The Hillstrom Museum of Art presents “Marvels of Maiolica: Italian Renaissance Ceramics from the Corcoran Gallery of Art Collection,” February 6 through March 19, 2006.
Maiolica, a tin-glazed form of ceramics used for a variety of purposes, flourished in the 16th century, and masters from Italian cities such as Deruta, Faenza, and Urbino frequently decorated their works with elaborate images, often including narrative scenes from the Classical or Christian world. This decoration was frequently related to the work of such great Renaissance masters as Michelangelo (1475-1564) or, especially, Raphael (1483-1520).
Marvels of Maiolica is organized and circulated by the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., and made possible by the Scott Opfler Foundation, Inc. Its presentation at the Hillstrom Museum of Art is supported by the Carl and Verna Schmidt Foundation and the Artist Series of the College.
In conjunction with the exhibition, the Museum will sponsor a lecture by Catherine Hess, associate curator in the department of sculpture and works of art at the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles. Hess will discuss “Italian Renaissance Maiolica and the Corcoran Gallery of Art Collection” on Sunday, February 12 at 7:00 p.m. in Wallenberg Auditorium of the Nobel Hall of Science on campus. Her lecture is supported by the Gustavus Lecture Series, and is free and open to the public.
The Museum has extended its exhibition Almost Home: The Return of Holocaust Survivors and Resisters to Postwar Vienna through March 12. The keynote speaker of this year’s Building Bridges Conference is concentration camp survivor Inge Auerbacher who spent three years as a child interned in the Terezin concentration camp in Czechoslovakia. She will speak on March 11 (11:00 a.m.) in Alumni Hall on campus.
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