Opening Lecture: On the Horizon—Art and Atmosphere in the Nineteenth Century
Rebecca Szantyr, former curatorial assistant in the Manton Study Center for Works on Paper, presents an overview of On the Horizon: Art and Atmosphere in the Nineteenth Century. Szantyr looks at the exhibition's major themes and moments and discusses how artists integrated scientific developments with pictorial invention as they depicted atmospheric effects.
Free. Advance registration for the Zoom transmission is required.
Image: John Martin, Satan Viewing the Ascent to Heaven, Paradise Lost, Book 3, Line 501 (detail), 1825, mezzotint on laid paper. The Clark, 1987.62
