Setting Fire To The Visual Arts: The Invention Of The Flemish Style Abroad

Once having arrived in Rome, almost every northern European artist began to produce small paintings on copper. Among these works were depicitions of nocturnal fires and fires of hell. Often crowded with figures and excessively overwrought, these small pictures revived a Boschian imagery of fantastic appearances and dreams, which then became dubbed as the "Flemish Manner." This lecture explores the parodic, anti-canonic and iconoclastic attitudes of these art works on copper.
Where:Henry Art Gallery auditorium