MATERIALITY at the Mead - Laurence Kanter

Description

MATERIALITY at the Mead - Laurence Kanter New discoveries and directions in art are presented in this series of gallery talks focusing on the physical materials artists use. Thursday, December 1, 6:30 pm What’s the secret to identifying a painting’s creator? Come hear the process by which the Mead’s Renaissance painting The Crucifixion was identified as the work of the remarkably expressive devotional painter and monk Lorenzo Monaco (ca. 1370–1425). The scholar responsible for this new attribution, Laurence Kanter, Chief Curator and the Lionel Goldfrank III Curator of European Art at Yale University Art Gallery, details his recent discovery, joined in conversation with Nicola Courtright, William McCall Vickery 1957 Professor of the History of Art. Followed by a reception.