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    MFAH Friday-Saturday Lecture: Treasured Images from the Golden Age of Dutch Art and Culture

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

    November 11-November 12, 2011

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    MFAH Friday-Saturday Lecture: Treasured Images from the Golden Age of Dutch Art and Culture
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    The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston presents a MFAH Friday-Saturday Lecture: Treasured Images from the Golden Age of Dutch Art and Culture.

    Presented by Frederik J. Duparc, former director of the Mauritshuis, The Hague;  and organizing curator of the exhibition ...

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    The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston presents a MFAH Friday-Saturday Lecture: Treasured Images from the Golden Age of Dutch Art and Culture.

    Presented by Frederik J. Duparc, former director of the Mauritshuis, The Hague;  and organizing curator of the exhibition Dutch and Flemish Masterworks from the Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterloo Collection.

    Generously cosponsored by the Peabody Essex MuseumA cornucopia of treasures from around the globe and across human history heads to the MFAH this fall.To complement this extraordinary season of exhibitions, the Fall 2011 Friday and Saturday Afternoon Lectures will explore our enduring fascination with King Tutankhamun, the boy pharaoh; the exquisite cultural legacy of the sultans of the Islamic world; the unique circumstances that created the golden age of Rembrandt, Frans Hals, and other still-revered Dutch and Flemish masters; the art of the ‘luxe life’ in eighteenth-century Paris; the only recently discovered contributions of Czech artists to early modernism; the sacred in Tibetan art; and why centuries-old techniques continue to inspire contemporary artists.

    Pictured:  Jan van der Heyden, View of the Westerkerk, Amsterdam, 1667–70, oil on panel. The Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterloo Collection. (detail above, full image below).


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    Museum of Fine Arts - Caroline Wiess Law Building

    1001 Bissonnet Street
    Houston, Tx 77005

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    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.
     


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