A public lunchtime talk by Jane Southwood at the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, The University of Western Australia.
Date: Friday 19 October 2018
Time: 1–2pm
Venue: Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, The University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Hwy, Crawley (Perth) WA
Registration: FREE event | Register online
Enquiries: (08) 6488 3707 or lwag@uwa.edu.au
Join Dr Jane Southwood, UWA Honorary Research Fellow, as she discusses a series of exquisite sixteenth century French paintings and sculptures by individual named and unnamed artists from the Ècole de Fontainebleau, portraying the mistresses – or ‘favourites’ – of reigning French monarchs.
The portrayals draw on mythological, literary and iconological sources to place these women in a context befitting their beauty, status and importance within the life of the monarch and within French society. The portrayals often also contain in their margins an additional narrative, revealing the life of the woman in the portrait.
This event is hosted by the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery and the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions.
Image: Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, UWA.