September 17 - January 7, 2018
An exhibition featuring Francisco de Zurbarán’s thirteen-canvas series Jacob and His Twelve Sons, twelve of which come from a collection at Auckland Castle, County Durham (UK). The show also includes technical analysis of the artist’s process and print sources.
On View: September 17, 2017 | 6–10 pm
Panel: September 15, 2017 | 3:30–5 pm
Zurbarán: Jacob and His Twelve Sons Art at the Center of Civic Engagement. Speakers: Jonathan Ruffer, Chairman of Auckland Castle Trust, Eleven Arches and Ruffer LLP Christopher Ferguson, Curatorial, Conservation and Exhibitions Director, Auckland Castle Clyde Valentín, director, Ignite/Arts Dallas: A Center for People, Purpose + Place, SMU Samuel S. Holland, Algur H. Meadows Dean of the Meadows School of the Arts, SMU.
Lecture: September 29, 2017 | 3:30–4:30 pm
Adam Jasienski: Poetry in Paint: The World and Work of Francisco de Zurbarán
Lecture: October 6, 2017 | 3:30–4:30 pm
Adam Jasienski: Poetry in Paint: The World and Work of Francisco de Zurbarán
Lecture: October 13, 2017 | 3:30–4:30 pm
Adam Jasienski: Poetry in Paint: The World and Work of Francisco de Zurbarán
Lecture: October 20, 2017 | 3:30–4:30 pm
Adam Jasienski: Poetry in Paint: The World and Work of Francisco de Zurbarán
Lecture: October 20, 2017 | 5:15–6 pm
Gallery talk by Nancy Cohen Israel: Dressing the Part: Reflected Prophecies in Zurbarán’s Sons of Jacob
Lecture: October 26, 2017 | 11 pm – 12 am
Odile Delenda: Zurbarán’s Series for the New World
Lecture: October 27, 2017 | 3:30–4:30 pm
Adam Jasienski: Poetry in Paint: The World and Work of Francisco de Zurbarán
Lecture: November 3, 2017 | 3:30–4:30 pm
Adam Jasienski: Poetry in Paint: The World and Work of Francisco de Zurbarán
Special event: November 14, 2017 | 3:30–10:30 pm
Symposium: Jacob and His Twelve Sons: The Intersection of Art and World Religions
Lecture: November 15, 2017 | 1:30–3 am
N.T. Wright: Jacob and the Bishop: Where Faith and Art Meet
Lecture: December 1, 2017 | 4–6:30 pm
Looking Below the Surface: Working Methods of Zurbarán, Velázquez, and Murillo
Lecture: December 8, 2017 | 6:15–7 pm
Gallery talk by Amanda W. Dotseth: Artistic Appropriations: Zurbarán’s Use of Prints and Studio Practice
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