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