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<p class=MsoNormal>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:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN><a
href="http://thewalters.org/eventscalendar/eventdetails.aspx?e=1408">The
Christmas Story: Picturing the Birth of Christ in Medieval Manuscripts</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><strong><span lang=EN
style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>December 03, 2009 - February 28,
2010</span></strong><b><span lang=EN><br>
<strong><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>10:00 AM - 05:00 PM</span></strong></span></b><span
lang=EN><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span lang=EN>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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN><a
href="http://thewalters.org/eventscalendar/eventdetails.aspx?e=1412">Palace of
Wonders: Renaissance & Baroque Galleries</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><strong><span lang=EN
style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>October 14, 2009 - October 14, 2020</span></strong><b><span
lang=EN><br>
<strong><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>10:00 AM - 05:00 PM</span></strong></span></b><span
lang=EN><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span lang=EN>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 <cite><span style='font-family:
"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Chamber of Wonders</span></cite> encompassing
curiosities of nature and human creativity.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN><a
href="http://thewalters.org/eventscalendar/eventdetails.aspx?e=1410">Poetry and
Prayer: Islamic Manuscripts at the Walters Art Museum</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><strong><span lang=EN
style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>March 20, 2010 - June 13, 2010</span></strong><b><span
lang=EN><br>
<strong><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>10:00 AM - 05:00 PM</span></strong></span></b><span
lang=EN><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span lang=EN>This exhibition
showcases masterpieces of illuminated and illustrated manuscripts produced in
Islamic lands from the ninth to the nineteenth century.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN><a
href="http://thewalters.org/eventscalendar/eventdetails.aspx?e=1568">Matter of
Faith: Relics & Reliquaries in the Middle Ages</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><strong><span lang=EN
style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>February 13, 2011 - May 08, 2011</span></strong><span
lang=EN><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span lang=EN>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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN><a
href="http://thewalters.org/eventscalendar/eventdetails.aspx?e=1330">Face to
Face: The African Presence in Renaissance Europe</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><strong><span lang=EN
style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>October 01, 2012</span></strong><b><span
lang=EN><br>
<strong><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>10:00 AM - 05:00 PM</span></strong></span></b><span
lang=EN><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span lang=EN>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<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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