| Elizabethan and Jacobean Pregnancy Portraits |
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Thursday, September 18 2008, 7:30pm - 9:00pm |
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| In early modern European portraiture women are generally very seldom depicted as obviously pregnant. In English portraits from the 16th and early 17th century, however, there seems to have been a vogue for such images, with elite women portrayed as unmistakably with child. Join Karen Hearn, Curator of 16th and 17th Century British Art at Tate Britain, London, for a study of these portraits. This lecture will examine some of these intriguing images, and suggest some reasons for this comparatively short-lived sub-genre. $12/ person, $10/ students. Light refreshments will follow the lecture. |
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