Tuesday, February 2, 2016 at 10:00am to 5:00pm
Allen Memorial Art Museum, Ripin Print Gallery
87 North Main Street, Oberlin, OH 44074
A Picture of Health explores the mechanisms by which art has been perceived to bring about the health and well-being of its makers and beholders. Sacred objects touched during religious ceremonies or worn on the body have promised healing and protection. Similarly, images held in the hand and admired, or representations of sacred figures who receive petitions for renewed health, have been produced in cultures east and west since antiquity. But art objects have also provided consolation or mitigated feelings of grief, providing effective substitutes for that which is lost or distant, whether a beloved person, place, or longed-for object.
Curated by Christina Neilson, assistant professor of Renaissance and baroque art history, Oberlin College, and Frances Gage, associate professor of art, Buffalo State, the State University of New York
Free
Jason Trimmer
775-8671
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