Art and Love in Renaissance Italy Symposium

To mark the opening of Art and Love in Renaissance Italy, the Kimbell will bring together a panel of scholars engaged in research on themes represented in the exhibition. This engrossing day of lectures will explore the complex and often ambiguous attitudes toward love and marriage in Renaissance Italy and examine a variety of artworks that were produced to celebrate betrothal, marriage, and family.

The lectures are free; no reservations required. Darnell Street Auditorium, across Arch Adams Street from the Museum

Welcome and introduction Malcolm Warner, acting director, Kimbell Art Museum

Amore: The Art of Love in Renaissance Italy
Andrea Bayer, curator, Department of European Paintings, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

The Imagery of Love and Marriage on Italian Renaissance Ceramics Dora Thornton, curator of Renaissance Collections and of the Waddesdon Bequest, Department of Prehistory and Europe, The British Museum, London