Hood Tour: Animal, Vegetable, Mineral: Making Colors in Europe, 1400-1800

Hood Tour: Animal, Vegetable, Mineral: Making Colors in Europe, 1400-1800

Special Event | FULL (Membership Required)

Main Street Hanover, NH 03755 United States
Hood Museum Room
11/13/2025 (one day)
1:00 PM-2:00 PM EDT on Th

Hood Tour: Animal, Vegetable, Mineral: Making Colors in Europe, 1400-1800

Special Event | FULL (Membership Required)

Join Elizabeth Rice Mattison, Andrew W. Mellon Curator of Academic Programming and Curator of European Art, for a private tour of the exhibition Animal, Vegetable, Mineral: Making Colors in Europe, 1400-1800 at the Hood Museum of Art. This tour examines paintings through the lens of color production, understanding artworks as products of scientific knowledge and economic exchange.

Tour max: 15 people

Image: Gherardo Starnina, The Dormition of the Virgin, about 1405-1410, tempera and gold leaf on poplar panel, Hood Museum of Art, P.975.5