For the Birds: Representing Nature from Saint Francis to Pope Francis

Title

For the Birds: Representing Nature from Saint Francis to Pope Francis

Master of the Bardi St. Francis, Altar panel, c. 1265, tempera on panel, Bardi Chapel, Santa Croce, Florence

Date

Thursday, June 18, 2020

Time

5:30 PM EDT

Using Laudato Si’, Pope Francis’s recent encyclical on the environment, as a point of departure, this talk explores the changing representation of his namesake, St. Francis, from the thirteenth to the twenty-first century, examining how evolving ideas about the human-nature relationship are expressed in images of the patron saint of ecology. Presented by Karl Kusserow, John Wilmerding Curator of American Art.

Free registration at https://princeton.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_hkZ_rYFVSOC7vYO7CRraNg (when prompted, click to sign in as “attendee”)

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LATE THURSDAYS!  This event is part of the Museum’s Late Thursdays programming, made possible in part by Heather and Paul G. Haaga Jr., Class of 1970.