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Fogg Art Museum. "American Painting at Mid-Century: Highlights from a Private Collection" through Nov. 14. "Portrait, Prospect and Poetry: British Drawings from the Grenville L. Wintrhop Bequest" through Nov. 11. "Chaste, Chased and Chastened: Old Testament Women in Northern Prints," through...
Harvard University Art Museums Concert. Soprano Ellen Hargis and harpsichordist Peter Sykes perform music associated with the Old Testament. Fogg Art Museum...
Chaste, Chased, and Chastened: Old Testament...
...deceived by the sexy name: "Chaste, Chased, and Chastened," the latest exhibit at Harvard's Fogg Art Museum, focuses on an esoteric, but intriguing, historical phenomenon. Subtitled "Old Testament Women in Northern Prints," the exhibit demonstrates how a social and cultural revolution necessitated a revolution in imagery--how a fledgling society needed to visualize the new roles it had created...
Organized by Susan Dackerman, a Lynn and Philip Straus Intern at the Fogg, "Chaste, Chased and Chastened" is unusual for its thematic organization. Through her graduate research of Rennasaince prints, Dackerman discovered a surprising increase in prints depicting Old Testament stories. Once Dackerman realized that this Old Testament emphasis coincided with the Protestant Reformation's destruction of Catholic art, she had the makings of an interesting historical exhibit...