Current Exhibitions

Current Exhibitions

Scholars, Explorers, Priests:
How the Renaissance Gave Us
the Modern World

February 2 – March, 27 2010

Curated by James Saslow, Professor of Art History (QC) and
Theater and Renaissance Studies (CUNY Graduate Center);
and Renaissance seminar students, QC Art Dept.


Albrecht Dürer (German, 1471-1528) Erasmus of Rotterdam, 1526 Engraving, 10 ½ x 8 ¼" Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Ternbach, 63.37		Elisabetta Sirani (1638-1665) School of Guido Reni Rest on the Flight Into Egypt Etching, 6 5/8 x 7 1/8" McMahon Gift, P61

Reception: Tuesday, February 2, 5:30-7:30 pm
curator’s talk, Dr. James Saslow, 6 pm

The achievements of Renaissance Europe ushered in key aspects of the modern world. Over seventy objects from the GTM collection explore three currents that live on in Western tradition: tension between religious authority and challenges to traditional faith; revival of classical mythology and history; and an empirical spirit that led to greater realism and the rise of new artistic subjects, including portraiture, landscape, genre scenes, and scientific illustration.

For information on this program and other schedules, please call the Museum at 718-997-4747, or visit www.qc.cuny.edu/godwin_ternbach

Public Programs at the GTM:

Lecture, Wednesday, February 24, 12:15 pm: “Reading Between the Lines: Women and Identity in Early Modern Books,” Joni Hand, Adj. Asst. Prof., QC Art Department.

Lecture, Monday, March 1, 12:15 pm: “From the Sacred to the Secular: the Gendered Geography of Veils in Art, Literature and Fashion in the Italian Cinquecento,” Eugenia Paulicelli, Professor of Italian and Comparative Literature (QC) and co-director of Fashion Studies (CUNY Graduate Center).

Film, Wednesday, March 17, 12:15 pm: Artemesia (1998) A highly provocative true story about a young woman whose bold pursuit of artistic freedom and physical desire threatened the elite powers of her time.

Family and Children Workshop, Sunday, March 21, 2–4 pm, Heroines of the Renaissance Bookmaking and Printing. Celebrate Women’s History Month and learn about influential women of the Renaissance while creating your own prints.

Please note that the museum, located in Klapper Hall, Room 405, is not open on holidays and when the college is closed. Admission is free. For directions to Queens College, please visit: http://www.qc.cuny.edu/welcome/directions/Pages/default.aspx

Please call the museum for updated programs and schedules or re-visit this website www.qc.cuny.edu/godwin_ternbach for further information.

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