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Art History Talk – The Ballad of Miss Fortune

March 6 @ 11:30 am - 1:30 pm
A woman with short dark hair and clear glasses wears a sleeveless brown patterned top, standing in front of bookshelves filled with books.

Please join us in the Berrie Center Caf茅 at 11:30 for a special talk by Art Historian Maria Loh in which聽she bridges renaissance imagery and notions of misogyny.

This event is held in conjunction with聽GODDESSES 3.0, on view in the Kresge and Pascal Galleries February 25 – April 10. More information on GODDESSES 3.0聽can be found here!

ABSTRACT

Kairos, Occasio, and Fortuna are complex facets of the same goddess of luck, but at a certain moment in time a troubling, schizophrenic iconography came into being, which cast Lady Luck as a distinctively female force, both a capricious agent controlling the Wheel of Fortune and also as a body that could be either violently seized or wildly adored. This lecture will explore the uneasy gendering of Fortuna in some early modern images such as an engraving by Marcantonio Raimondi in the Metropolitan Museum that bears the descriptive title聽A Naked Man Holding Fortune by the Hair and Whipping Her. Rather than simply cancelling an image as such, I would like to take the opportunity to reflect upon the ideological work that such artworks accomplished in their own time and to push us to think about how we can and must make sense of them as twenty-first-century viewers.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER

Maria H. Loh is Professor of Art History at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.聽Previously, she taught at CUNY Hunter College for six years and聽at University College London for over a decade. She is聽a contributor to聽Art in America聽and聽the author of three books鈥�Titian Remade. Repetition and the Transformation of Early Modern Italian Art听(2007);听Still Lives. Death, Desire, and the Portrait of the Old Master聽(2015); and聽Titian鈥檚 Touch. Art, Magic, & Philosophy聽(2019). She has also written on: horror and聽鈥渟pecial affect鈥� in early modern painting and sculpture;聽rainbow imagery in Stuart England;聽melancholia and the Renaissance in Ottocento Italy; remakes in Chinese cinema; repetition in Hitchcock鈥檚聽Vertigo; seriality and Sherrie Levine; and the 鈥渙pen work鈥� of Jeff Wall. Her forthcoming book鈥�Liquid Sky鈥攚ill be written for a general audience.聽

Image: Maria Loh, courtesy of the Institute for Advanced Study.

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