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Learn MoreTuesday, April 19, 2022 at 3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
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In this talk Christina Neilson, associate professor of Renaissance and Baroque art history and chair of art history at Oberlin College, considers why Sägga Krәstos commissioned a portrait miniature of himself by the 17th-century artist Giovanna Garzoni. What might the miniature tell us about Garzoni as a working woman artist? What does the presence of the artist’s signatures on the reverse of the painting—in both Italian and in Krәstos’ native language of Amharic—imply about the social relationship between artist and sitter?
This recorded event will take place in-person in the museum's East Gallery.
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