Let This Be a Lesson: Heroes, Heroines, and Narrative in Paintings
Published: July 1, 2014
Description
The Yale University Art Gallery presents Let This Be a Lesson: Heroes, Heroines, and Narrative in Paintings at Yale, a semester-long lecture series with John Walsh. The public course will take a close look at eleven important paintings from Yale's art museums that represent scenes from history, myth, scripture, or literature.
Course Takeaways
- An art history course diving deep on eleven works from the Yale University Art Gallery.
Meet the Instructors
John Walsh, B.A. 1961, is Director Emeritus of the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles. He was a paintings curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. He received a Ph.D. from Columbia University. He has taught courses on the history of art at Columbia and Harvard University, and he is currently a visiting professor in the Department of the History of Art at Yale University.
