[Moo] Exhibts at the Walter's in Baltimore

[Shannon D. Combs-Bennett]

So...here are a few exhibits that might interest people that are going
on or will be over the next few years at the Walter's in Batimore:

 

The Christmas Story: Picturing the Birth of Christ in Medieval
Manuscripts
<http://thewalters.org/eventscalendar/eventdetails.aspx?e=1408> 

December 03, 2009 - February 28, 2010
10:00 AM - 05:00 PM

As it is recounted in the Christian New Testament, the Christmas story
is remarkably short on specifics. In rendering the story into pictures,
it fell to medieval illuminators to supply the details. Even today,
popular representations of these events are based on images that were
first devised by the artists of the Middle Ages.

 

Palace of Wonders: Renaissance & Baroque Galleries
<http://thewalters.org/eventscalendar/eventdetails.aspx?e=1412> 

October 14, 2009 - October 14, 2020
10:00 AM - 05:00 PM

The installations presents a re-creation of a Collection of Art and
Wonders as it might have been assembled by a 17th-century nobleman in
the Southern Netherlands: his entry hall of arms and armor, a private
study and a Chamber of Wonders encompassing curiosities of nature and
human creativity.

 

Poetry and Prayer: Islamic Manuscripts at the Walters Art Museum
<http://thewalters.org/eventscalendar/eventdetails.aspx?e=1410> 

March 20, 2010 - June 13, 2010
10:00 AM - 05:00 PM

This exhibition showcases masterpieces of illuminated and illustrated
manuscripts produced in Islamic lands from the ninth to the nineteenth
century.

 

Matter of Faith: Relics & Reliquaries in the Middle Ages
<http://thewalters.org/eventscalendar/eventdetails.aspx?e=1568> 

February 13, 2011 - May 08, 2011

Medieval Christians venerated saints; their bodily remains were often
displayed in special containers, known as reliquaries. Covered in gold
and silver and embellished with gems and semiprecious stones,
reliquaries proclaimed the special status of their sacred contents to
worshipers and pilgrims.

 

Face to Face: The African Presence in Renaissance Europe
<http://thewalters.org/eventscalendar/eventdetails.aspx?e=1330> 

October 01, 2012
10:00 AM - 05:00 PM

This groundbreaking exhibition will explore the wealth of European art
to reveal the hidden presence of Africans in Renaissance society and the
many roles they played

 

 

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