Style and Meaning Converge in Georges de La Tour’s The Magdalen with the Smoking Flame

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When:
September 28, 2019 @ 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm
2019-09-28T14:00:00-07:00
2019-09-28T15:30:00-07:00
Where:
Whitsell Auditorium

Lynn Orr Ph.D., Executive Director, The History Museum of Hood River County

The most skilled pictorial artists capture our imagination by making stylistic choices perfectly attuned to the meaning of their images. With deftness of hand finely tuned to narrative intent, an artist can paint away the psychological space between his world and ours. Georges de La Tour’s incomparable The Magdalen with the Smoking Flame is an absorbing masterpiece that draws us into the delicious physicality of his painted realm. Join 17th-century specialist Lynn Orr for a conversation about La Tour’s artistic essay on the Magdalen. Explore how he crafts, both visually and iconographically, the persona of the New Testament’s Mary of Magdala as sanctioned by the 17th-century Catholic Church.

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Georges de La Tour, The Magdalen with the Smoking Flame, ca. 1635–37.
Georges de La Tour (French, 1593–1652). The Magdalen with the Smoking Flame, ca. 1635–37. Oil on canvas. Los Angeles County Museum of Art: Gift of The Ahmanson Foundation, M.77.73.