You are invited to an HAD Faculty Conversations by Mary D. Edwards, “Demigods, Dragons, and Griffons in some 14th-century Italian Frescoes by Altichiero.”
Date: Wednesday, April 30th, 2025
Time: 12:00 – 1:00 pm
Venue: Zoom
https://pratt.zoom.us/j/
Meeting ID: 960 7291 8931 Passcode: 573466
About the Speaker: Mary D. Edwards has taught at Pratt since 1985. She was trained at Columbia University in Twentieth Century art, late medieval Italian art, and Non-Western art. Her courses include Native American Art and Pictorial Narrative. Her research focuses on iconography, the gesamtkunstwerk and text-and-image issues. She has published on Nicola Pisano; Duccio, Giotto, Simone Martini; Ambrogio Lorenzetti, Altichiero, Picasso and Norval Morrisseau in the SAH Journal; Studies in Iconography; Source; Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte, and elsewhere. She co-edited Gravity in Art … (2012) with Elizabeth Bailey and solo-edited Doppelgangers, Alter Egos and Mirror Images in Art … (2020)
About the Project: In my presentation I will discuss the impact of Greco-Roman art on the Italian artist, Altichiero, who painted frescoes in the late 14th century in Padua. Though Altichiero was painting the lives of Christian Saints, he included in his Paduan murals images of a griffon, Mithras and the Bull, Perseus and the Dragon, and Hercules, imbuing most of them with Christian meaning. I will support my interpretations of the artist’s classical images with texts by biblical, Roman, early Christian, and medieval writers, such as Justin Martyr, Ovid and Dante. The presentation will be illustrated with color slides.
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* This event is for Pratt community.