This James C. Meade Friends’ lecture is free for members and $12 for non-members. Tickets available at the door only. Lecture seating in the Noble Theater is first-come, first-served.
Not a member? Visit okcmoa.com/membership to join today and enjoy this lecture for free! Additionally, Friend and Sustainer level members are invited to attend an exclusive reception prior to the lecture and the Annual Friends’ Dinner immediately following the lecture. Call 405-278-8207 to upgrade your membership today.
Notes from an Anti-biography of Leonardo da Vinci
The sensational $450 million sale in November 2017 of a painting attributed to Leonardo da Vinci has been a matter of concern for many invested in the study and interpretation, as well as the relevance, of pre-modern art. The constant spotlighting of Leonardo “discoveries” in popular media shows how “da Vinci” has become an increasingly fictive historical legitimation of our obsessions with art, genius, and technological innovation as a means of obtaining celebrity and wealth. The lecture will confront the “Da Vinci worlds” of the 21st century with the mysterious figure of the pre-modern artist whose life and work bear little relation to the Leonardo of modern myth.
Stephen John Campbell, PhD
Henry and Elizabeth Wiesenfeld Professor & Director of Graduate Studies, Department of the History of Art, Johns Hopkins University
Dr. Stephen Campbell’s research and publication in the field of pre-modern Italian art have dealt with the role of art in courts, cities, and state formation; the Renaissance literature and theory of art; the body, sex, and gender; the histories of collecting and canon formation; and more recently, the geographies of art in Italy and the Mediterranean. Dr. Campbell earned a PhD from Johns Hopkins University, MA from the University of North Carolina, and BA from Trinity College, Dublin.
Giovanni Agostino da Lodi. Portrait of a woman with abundant hair. Red chalk on paper, 10 x 9.1 cm. Photo: Michèle Bellot. © RMN-Grand Palais / Art Resource, NY
