"Race / Art History" Talk by Andrea Achi: “Masked Dancers and Praises for Mother Mary: A Nubian Wall Painting and Its Implications for Pre-Modern Critical Race Studies”

Tuesday, May 4, 2021 at 4:30pm
Zoom

FREE! For Wesleyan students, faculty, and staff.

“Race / Art History” is a year-long series of talks by scholars working at the intersections of art history and critical race studies. This talk, “Masked Dancers and Praises for Mother Mary: A Nubian Wall Painting and Its Implications for Pre-Modern Critical Race Studies,” will be given by Andrea Achi of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Visit the series website for more information and to attend the lecture series on Zoom.

Sponsored by the Samuel Silipo ’85 Distinguished Visitor’s Fund of the Department of Art and Art History, with co-sponsorship from the Office of Academic Affairs.

Image details from left: Anne-Louis Girodet-Trioson, Portrait of Jean-Baptiste Belley, 1797, Versailles, Musée national du château, MV 4616; Berlinghiero, Virgin and Child, c. 1220–1230, New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 60.173; Samuel Joseph Brown Jr., Self-Portrait, ca. 1941, New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 43.46.4