Exciting Discoveries in Art History
Virtual program presented in collaboration with MAIN
Thursday, February 22
7:00pm - 8:00pm
Presented by Mallory Mortillaro, an art historian and educator. Free program. Registration required to obtain link to Zoom.
Who doesn’t love learning about a priceless painting found in an attic? Or a sculpture sitting for decades in a public garden, only to be found out as an Italian treasure? After finding myself in the middle of my own art history discovery when I uncovered the provenance of a Rodin sculpture sitting in New Jersey town hall, I learned just how many times this has happened before. This lecture explores the stories of several different important and valuable works of art that have been rediscovered in unexpected places. The program reviews a brief background of each piece, artist, and how the piece got to be lost, and then found.
Dover Free Public Library
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