“Emerging From Darkness: Faith, Emotion and the Body in the Baroque” is an internationally significant exhibition featuring world-renowned baroque masters including Artemisia Gentileschi, Lavinia Fontana and Sofonisba Anguissola, and contemporary artists working in the Baroque style. Showcasing rare, historically important works, Emerging From Darkness is an unprecedented first for Hamilton Gallery and regional Australia.
Drawn from partnerships with and loans from the National Gallery of Victoria, the National Gallery of Australia and private lenders across the country, the exhibition brings together powerful, emotive and unapologetic works that changed the course of art at the beginning of the 17th century.
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Faith, Emotion & The Body in the Baroque – Symposium
Saturday 9th December
1-5pm, Hamilton Gallery
Tickets: Faith, Emotion & The Body in the Baroque – Symposium | Humanitix
Join luminaries to discover the human stories behind the exhibition in this insightful afternoon of scholarly discussion, revealing the profound religious, technological, and societal transformations that fuelled Emerging From Darkness‘ unforgettable and highly emotive works.
Enjoy opportunities for Q&A and informal discussion amidst this dynamic day of spotlight talks alongside a locally catered afternoon tea.
Speakers & Topics:
- Dr Lisa Beaven, exhibition co-curator and Senior Research Fellow, La Trobe University – Topic: Michelangelo’s Last Judgement and issues of nudity and decorum after the Council of Trent
- Mr Laurie Benson, exhibition co-curator and Curator of International Art at the NGV – Topic: Annibale Carracci & the Carracci Academy
- Dr David R. Marshall, exhibition co-curator, Associate Professor and Principal Fellow of Art History, University of Melbourne – Topic: Caravaggio & the Caravaggisti: Painting from life
- Dr Esther Theiler, Honorary Research Fellow in Classics & Ancient History, La Trobe University – Topic: Portraiture & Women Artists
- Dr Matthew Martin, Senior Lecturer in Art History and Curatorship, University of Melbourne – Topic: Inclinazione: the ‘desire to create’ of Sofonisba Anguissola, Lavinia Fontana and Artemisia Gentileschi
Artwork: Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, called il Guercino Doubting Thomas c. 1623–29 , oil on canvas , private collection .
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