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Spanish Baroque in the New World:
Sibyls from Zurbarán's Studio
The Twelve Sibyls were pagan prophetesses adopted into Christian iconography during the medieval period. Each foretold one of the principle events in the life of Christ. In 1508–12, Michelangelo painted five Sibyls on the Sistine Chapel ceiling. However, after the Council of Trent in the early 1560s restricted pagan imagery, they were less common in art. Although the provenance of this series is unknown, the unusual choice of subject may be explained by the foreign destination. In the background of each painting, a small narrative scene represents the event in Christ’s life prophesied by the Sibyl.
Faculty Show Eleven
Tiffany Glass: "A Riot of Color"
Picturing Paradise: Cuadros by the Peruvian Women of Pamplona - Alta as Visions of Hope
This exhibition is a collaboration between the Museum and the Women’s Studies Program, the American Studies Program, and the Department of Art and Art History (Prof. Susan Webster) at The College of William & Mary. Support was provided by the Margaret Gove Foundation through the Women’s Studies Program.
The New Outcasts / Los Nuevos Olvidados
Photographs by Octavio Kano-Galván
The Dutch Italianates:
Seventeenth-Century Masterpieces from Dulwich Picture Gallery
Assignment Middle East and Africa:
Selected Work from Photojournalist Paul Taggart
in conjunction with University Center Activities Board, Cultural and Contemporary Events Program: Paul Taggart is a photojournalist whose work has appeared in the New York Times, Newsweek, and National Geographic.
Highlights from the George W. Roper, II Collection
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