Bosch revolutionized Renaissance art by turning away from traditional Christian images such as Madonnas and saints toward secular, encyclopedic scenes of everyday life handled as moral allegory and fantastic scenes of sin and punishment in hell. Although seemingly poles apart, his naturalism and fantasy were both part of a secular, Renaissance aesthetic which understood artistic…
Following his Museums a la Carte program, Robert Baldwin, Ph.D (Associate Professor of Art History, Connecticut College) will discuss “Christ in Limbo” in the Northern European & Italian Renaissance Gallery in the D’Amour Museum of Fine Arts. Museum members only.
Explore the role that natural history played in the everyday lives of people from the 17th through the 19th Centuries. During the 19th century an obsession developed with the natural world which has never been surpassed. Cabinets of curiosities assembled by gentlemen naturalists and collectors evolved into the present day natural history museums. Images and…
