Online Lecture: Big-Bellied Women: Portraying Pregnancy in 16th and 17th Century England
March 30 2022
Picture: The MET
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
The Agnes Etherington Art Centre in Kingston, Ontario Canada, will be hosting an interesting in-person and live-streamed lecture next month. Professor Karen Hearn will be presenting Queen's University's Isabel and Alfred Bader Lecture in European Art on the subject of Big-Bellied Women: Portraying Pregnancy in 16th and 17th-Century England.
According to the talk's blurb:
Join celebrated art historian and curator Karen Hearn for “Big-Bellied Women: Portraying Pregnancy in 16th and 17th-Century England,” an exploration of early modern depictions of pregnancy in British art. Hearn, a former curator at Tate Britain and honorary professor at University College London, argues many early modern works depicted pregnancy overtly, contrary to previous thought, for a variety of reasons and motivations.
This free talk will be streamed online on 14th April 2022 from 6pm - 8pm (EDT). Click on the link above for more details.
