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MFAH Friday-Saturday Lecture: Titian, The First Modern Painter

Presented by Museum of Fine Arts, Houston at Museum of Fine Arts - Caroline Wiess Law Building

May 13-May 14, 2011

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The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston presents a MFAH Friday-Saturday Lecture: Titian, The First Modern Painter, Friday, May 13, 1:30 pm (repeated on Saturday, May 14, 4 pm). Presented by Ian Kennedy, Louis L. and Adelaide C. Ward Curator of European Painting and Sculpture, the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City.

In his own day, Titian was regarded as an artistic...

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In his own day, Titian was regarded as an artistic miracle worker, his paintings perceived as depicting reality and humanity with unprecedented vividness and vitality. Titian is indeed Shakespearean, a universal artist who is fascinating on a variety of levels: emotional, social, aesthetic, and even political.

Ian Kennedy offers an overview of Titian’s career and achievements by examining a selection of 16th-century master's finest works to show why today's audience should be looking at Titian with as much close attention, reverence, and astonishment as the artist's contemporaries did half a millennium ago.

The four-week series of May Friday and Saturday Afternoon Lectures explores the art and legacy of Titian (c. 1488/90–1576), an artist renowned even in his own lifetime as the most gifted and influential painter of the Venetian school.

In conjunction with the MFAH exhibition Titian and the Golden Age of Venetian Painting: Masterpieces from the National Galleries of Scotland.

Pictured: Titian, detail The Virgin and Child with Saint John the Baptist and an Unidentified Saint, c. 1515–20, oil on canvas.

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Museum of Fine Arts - Caroline Wiess Law Building

1001 Bissonnet Street
Houston, Tx 77005

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Tickets:

Admission is open to the public and free with general museum admission. Museum members always receive free admission.

Museum Admission:
$7.00 adults
$3.50 seniors/children 5-18

Times:

Friday, 1:30 p.m.and repeated Saturday, 4:00 p.m.

A reception to meet the speaker follows each program.

Phone: 713-639-7300

Parking:

Museum Parking Garage

Located directly east of the Beck and Law buildings, the MFAH Visitors Center features a four-story covered parking garage.

The easy-to-find parking entrance is on Binz, marked by a large, yellow arrow.

You're always protected from the elements when you park your car in the Museum Garage. From there, you can go to the Visitors Center lobby and find a ticketing desk and up-to-the minute museum information.

As an added convenience, you can enter the Beck and Law buildings from the Visitors Center through security-monitored, climate-controlled tunnels connecting all three buildings.

Accessibility Info: Currently, no accessibility information is available for this event.

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