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Writing on Hands: Memory and Knowledge in Early Modern Europe
"Writing on Hands: Memory and Knowledge in Early Modern Europe" explores the use and importance of images of the hand in codifying and extending knowledge from the mathematical and musical to the spiritual and astrological realm in 15th through 17th century Europe. More than 80 manuscripts, prints, and books borrowed from the College of Physicians in Philadelphia, the Folger Shakespeare Library, Library of Congress, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, National Library of Medicine, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Pierpont Morgan Library, and the Walters Art Gallery will illustrate how, in conjunction with developing print technology, major currents of thought, such as humanism, the Reformation, and the scientific revolution, affected representations of the inscribed hand. While referring to relevant medieval traditions, the time frame of the exhibition runs from 1466 through 1700.
Curator of the exhibition is Dr. Claire Richter Sherman, author of "Imaging Aristotle: Verbal and Visual Representation in Fourteenth-Century France." Dr. Sherman is Project Head Emerita of Sponsored Research in the History of Art, published by the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art. She has published widely on medieval art and art historiography and lectures throughout the United States and Europe.
Accompanying the exhibition is a fully illustrated scholarly catalogue written by Dr. Sherman and edited by her and Dr. Peter M. Lukehart. Contributors of essays are internationally known scholars Brian Copenhaver (University of California), Martin Kemp (University of Oxford), Sachiko Kusukawa (Trinity College, Cambridge), and Susan Forscher Weiss (Peabody Conservatory, The Johns Hopkins University). Information about the catalogue, which will be available at the exhibition, can be obtained from Stephanie Keifer (717-245-1344 or [log in to unmask]). The exhibition's Web site is www.writingonhands.org.
Exhibition location and dates:The Trout Gallery, Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA
September 8- November 25, 2000
Hours: Tuesday - Saturday 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
The Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, DC
December 13, 2000-March 4, 2001
The exhibition is funded in part through the National Endowment for the Arts. Additional support was provided by the generosity of the Ruth Trout Exhibition Fund, Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA, and the participation of the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, DC.
Roger C. Lawson
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National Gallery of Art
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Washington, DC 20565
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