This Week @ AU

The Department of Art announces a public lecture by Jeannine A. O'Grody, chief curator and curator of European art at the Birmingham Museum of Art (BMA), Wednesday, April 22, at 4 p.m. in 005 Biggin Hall. O'Grody's talk, "Leonardo da Vinci: The Evolution of an Exhibition at the Birmingham Museum of Art," will relate how the BMA came to organize last fall’s exhibition titled "Leonardo da Vinci: Drawings from the Biblioteca Reale in Turin," which featured 11 drawings and one codex that had never been allowed to leave Italy as a group. O'Grody will offer curatorial perspectives on the many issues that arose when borrowing drawings by the most famous draftsman in the history of art. O'Grody received her doctorate from Case Western Reserve University and prior to arriving at the BMA in 2000, she worked at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, the Cleveland Museum of Art and was a National Endowment for the Arts Curatorial Fellow at the Harvard Art Museum's Fogg Museum. Her area of expertise is Italian Renaissance art and her research interests include old master drawings, prints, the creative process, patronage and 15th through 18th century European sculpture. O'Grody has lectured widely in the field of Renaissance and Baroque Art, including the popular lecture "The Art of Leonardo: The Da Vinci Code Deciphered," which has been presented at numerous museums throughout the country. This event is free and open to the public. For more information, contact Joyce de Vries at devrijc@auburn.edu 844-3484.

Tags: art history, da vinci, Department of Art

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