Join us for a special Art and Conversation with Jesse Locker, Ph.D., Professor of Italian Renaissance & Baroque Art at Portland State University, and Lloyd DeWitt, Ph.D., The Richard and Janet Geary Curator of European & American Art Pre-1930, exploring Artemisia Gentileschi’s Naples period, touching on the painting David and the Head of Goliath on loan to the museum. Jesse Locker specializes in Italian art and material culture of the Renaissance and Baroque periods, particularly seventeenth-century painter Artemisia Gentileschi. He is the author of a number of studies on various aspects of Italian art.
Jesse Locker specializes in Italian art and material culture of the Renaissance and Baroque periods, particularly seventeenth-century painter Artemisia Gentileschi. He is the author of a number of studies on various aspects of Italian art, including Artemisia Gentileschi: The Language of Painting (Yale University Press), winner of the Helen & Howard R. Marraro Prize for Italian Studies, and articles in Artibus et Historiae, Source, and Gastronomica, Food & History and editor of Rethinking Art in the Late Renaissance: After Trent (Routledge). His current project examines the material world of early modern Italian artists through inventories, archives, and artworks.
This lecture provides a rare opportunity to hear directly from two art history experts, with plenty of time for audience questions and discussion.
- 10:30 a.m. – Coffee and snacks
- 11 a.m. – Talk and Q&A with Jesse Locker, Ph.D., Professor of Italian Renaissance & Baroque Art at Portland State University, and Lloyd DeWitt, Ph.D., The Richard and Janet Geary Curator of European & American Art Pre-1930
- 12:30 p.m. – Visit the galleries as part of Free First Thursday
Free event; ticket link coming soon!