Springfield Museums continue à la carte lecture series this JuneDate: 6/24/2016 SPRINGFIELD – The Springfield Museums’ monthly tour and lecture schedule continues in June with the popular Museums à la Carte lectures, which take place on Thursdays at 12:15 p.m. in the D’Amour Museum of Fine Arts.
Admission is $4 ($2 for members of the Springfield Museums); visitors are invited to bring a bag lunch (cookies and coffee are provided). For more information about Museums à la Carte, call 263-6800, ext. 488.
This month’s lectures include:
June 23 – The Artistry of Bosch: Renaissance Naturalism, Allegory, and Imagination. Robert Baldwin, Associate Professor of Art History at Connecticut College, examines how Hieronymus Bosch blended encyclopedic scenes of everyday life handled as moral allegory and fantastic scenes of sin and punishment.
June 30 – At Home With Nature: The Natural World Under Glass. John N. Whitenight, artist, educator and author, looks at how cabinets of curiosities assembled by gentlemen naturalists and collectors evolved into the today’s natural history museums.
As part of the Museums’ members-only “Continuing Conversations” series, art docent Kate Belhumeur will lead a guided gallery discussion at the D’Amour Museum following the June 9 lecture. As a rare treat, Robert Baldwin will lead his own post-lecture discussion on June 23 at the D’Amour Museum.
Monthly walking tours are presented on second Saturdays in collaboration with the Armoury-Quadrangle Civic Association (AQCA). Walking tours are free for Springfield Museums and AQCA members, $5 nonmembers, and start at the Museums’ Welcome Center.
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