Getty Center Exhibition, “Things Unseen: Vision, Belief, and Experience in Illuminated Manuscripts”
Drawn primarily from the Getty Museum’s permanent collection of manuscripts, this exhibition explores the visual challenges artists faced as they sought to render miraculous encounters with the divine, grand visions of the end of time, the intricacies of belief, and the intimate communications of prayer. These “unseen” spiritual experiences, recorded by Jewish and Christian authors in antiquity, were translated in new ways by the illuminators of medieval and Renaissance books. Rather than simply narrating otherworldly events, the innovative images in this exhibition offer visual entry points to the ineffable nature of faith.
Glass in the Late-Antique Mediterranean
Glass was first created in Mesopotamia or Egypt as an artificial precious stone in the third millennium B.C.E. Until the […]
Singing Il Furioso: Stories of Knights, Enchanted Places, and Extraordinary Journeys of the Mind
Join the musical duo Il Ruggiero (Emanuela Marcante & Daniele Tonini) for a performance of music, words and images that […]
Art Historians of Southern California Conference
Art Historians of Southern CaliforniaSTEM to STEAM with Art History, San Diego Museum of Art 10am-3pm
Cole conservatory of Music Presents: Opera Masterpieces
Cole conservatory of Music Presents: Opera MasterpiecesDavid Anglin, directorhttp://web.csulb.edu/depts/music/events/
Giovanni Bellini: Landscapes of Faith in Renaissance Venice
Giovanni Bellini’s evocative landscapes are as much the protagonists of his paintings as are the religious subjects that dominated 15th-century […]
Sacred Landscapes: Nature in Renaissance Manuscripts
God is living, being, spirit, all verdant being, all creativity –Hildegard of Bingen In Renaissance Europe, many people looked to nature for […]