Virtual Art Lecture with Professor Thomas Germano: Vermeer - A Restoration and a Hidden Cupid

Program Type:

Art Lecture

Age Group:

Adults
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Program Description

Description

Art historians have known about the Cupid's existence since 1979 when an X-ray analysis was made of Johannes Vermeer's Girl Reading a Letter at an Open Window. The recently restored painting has become the centerpiece of a new exhibition, Fall 2021, at the Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister in Dresden that reveals the cupid painting on the back wall, posthumously overpainted by an unknown hand. This visual lecture will focus on the new revelations in the restoration and Vermeer's related life and work.

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