HARN EMINENT SCHOLAR CHAIR IN ART HISTORY

HESCAH LECTURE

Friday, September 21, 2018, 6pm
Chandler Auditorium, Harn Museum of Art
Reception to Follow

A Paradoxical Queen: Royal Spaces for Marie de’ Medici in Baroque France

Dr. Nicola Courtright
William McCall Vickery 1957 Professor of the History
of Art, Amherst College

Around 1600, French royal residences displayed imagery that surprisingly suggested an authoritative political place for the spouse of King Henri IV. The château of Fontainebleau espe-cially contained artful vocabulary that wittily, yet seriously, illuminated the paradoxical position that a queen occupied in Baroque France.