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ViewPoints Lecture - The Velázquez in the Basement
ViewPoints Lecture Series
The Velázquez in the Basement: Connoisseurship and the Politics of Art
History
John Marciari, Independent Curator
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10:30 AM
Tickets: $10 Non-Members /
$5 Ringling Members and Florida college students and faculty with valid school
ID / Free for Contributor Level Ringling Members and above.
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In 2010, John
Marciari made worldwide news when he announced that a long-neglected painting
in the storerooms of the Yale University Art Gallery was an important early
masterpiece by Diego Velazquez. Depicting ‘The Education of the Virgin
Mary’, the work was damaged, had no known provenance, and had never been on
public view. While the reattribution began with a connoisseurial judgment, the
case is supported further by research on painting in Seville and the first
years of Velázquez’s career, by the study of provenance, and by technical
examination in the conservation laboratory. Marciari’s lecture presents
the case for the painting in a tale of discovery, detective work, and commentary
on the art world’s reluctance to admit new works to the canon.
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