The Body of Christ in the Art of Europe and New Spain, 1150-1800
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
December 21, 1997, through April 12, 1998
This exhibit draws from the MFA's collection and from public and private collections in the United States, Canada, and Mexico, and includes works by such artists as Giovanni Bellini, Sandro Botticelli, Albrecht Durer, Peter Paul Rubens, Jacopo Tintoretto, Paolo Veronese, and Francisco de Zurbaran. Objects in diverse media by less well-known masters and anonymous craftsmen are also represented. The exhibition is divided into four thematic sections: "The Word Made Flesh," "Suffering and Triumph," "The Eucharistic Body," and "The Visionary and Devotional Body."
A catalogue, edited by exhibit curator James Clifton (director of the Blaffer Foundation and curator of Renaissance and Baroque Painting at the Museum of Fine Arts), contains contributions by David Nirenberg, CSC Director, and by Linda Neagley, coordinator of the CSC Medieval Studies Workshop. Neagley will present a lecture related to her catalogue essay, "Architecture and the Body of Christ," on Thursday, March 12, 1998, at 6 p.m. in MFA's Brown Auditorium. Nirenberg will give a lecture related to his catalogue essay, "The Historical Body of Christ," on Thursday, March 26, 1998, at 6 p.m., also in the Brown Auditorium.
Neagley's and Nirenberg's participation in this MFA exhibit arose from a November, 1995, CSC conference entitled "The Body of Christ in the Late Middle Ages," which established new ties among local medievalists.
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