{"id":5253,"date":"2016-04-06T17:41:11","date_gmt":"2016-04-06T17:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hartdoctors.com\/?p=5253"},"modified":"2016-04-06T17:41:11","modified_gmt":"2016-04-06T17:41:11","slug":"christopher-johns-to-lecture-on-francisco-goya-and-the-alba-family-at-the-frist-center-for-visual-arts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/arthistoryblog\/2016\/04\/christopher-johns-to-lecture-on-francisco-goya-and-the-alba-family-at-the-frist-center-for-visual-arts\/","title":{"rendered":"Christopher Johns to Lecture on Francisco Goya and the Alba Family at the Frist Center for Visual Arts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hartdoctors.com\/2016\/04\/06\/christopher-johns-to-lecture-on-francisco-goya-and-the-alba-family-at-the-frist-center-for-visual-arts\/alba_048_the_duches_of_alba_in_white\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5254\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5254\" src=\"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/arthistoryblog\/2016\/04\/alba_048_the_duches_of_alba_in_white.jpg?w=200\" alt=\"Alba_048_The_Duches_of_Alba_in_White\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>Francisco de Goya y Lucientes began his career as a painter in service to the Bourbon royal family and to a select cluster of noble families, including the Floridablanca, the Osuna, and especially the Alba.\u00a0 In his noon lecture on April 7 at the Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Christopher Johns, Norman L. and Roselea J. Goldberg Professor of History of Art,\u00a0 will trace the evolution of Goya\u2019s career, with special emphasis on his portraits of the\u00a0 13th Duchess of Alba.<\/p>\n<p><u><\/u>Johns will begin with the context of the Spanish Enlightenment, which informed Goya\u2019s earlier artistic development, and then discuss the horrors of the French occupation and resulting civil war, which Goya reflected in key works during his forties.\u00a0\u00a0 The lecture also will pay special attention to Goya\u2019s final isolation in the Quinta del Sordo\u2014the house of the deaf man\u2014where he indulged his darkest thoughts in a series of images unparalleled for their condemnation of the human condition.<\/p>\n<p>The lecture is presented in conjunction with the current exhibit that is drawn from one of the oldest and most significant private collections in Europe. <em>Treasures from the House of Alba: 500 Years of Art and Collecting<\/em> features works by Goya, Murillo, Rubens, Titian, and more from the splendid palaces of the Alba dynasty in Spain.\u00a0 Co-organized by the Meadows Museum and the Casa de Alba Foundation, the exhibition brings together more than 130 works of art dating from antiquity to the twentieth century.\u00a0 This is the first major exhibition outside Spain of works from the collection of the House of Alba\u2014a prominent Spanish noble family with ties to the monarchy since the fifteenth century.<\/p>\n<p>Free and open to the public, the lecture will be held in the auditorium of the Frist Center located in downtown Nashville at 919 Broadway..<\/p>\n<p>Francisco de Goya y Lucientes (Spanish, 1746\u20131828).\u00a0<em>The Duchess of Alba in White<\/em>, 1795. Oil on canvas, 75 5\/8 x 51 3\/16 in.\u00a0\u00a0 Dukes of Alba Collection, Liria Palace, Madrid<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Francisco de Goya y Lucientes began his career as a painter in service to the Bourbon royal family and to a select cluster of noble families, including the Floridablanca, the Osuna, and especially the Alba.\u00a0 In his noon lecture on April 7 at the Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Christopher Johns, Norman L. and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7000,"featured_media":5254,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,16,17,19,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","category-hart","category-hart-in-nashville","category-lectures","category-vrc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/arthistoryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/arthistoryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/arthistoryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/arthistoryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7000"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/arthistoryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/arthistoryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5253\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/arthistoryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/arthistoryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/arthistoryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/arthistoryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}