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Kimbell Lecture: Wednesday, October 7th, 2015

François-André Vincent, Caricature of the Painter Pierre-Charles Jombert,

François-André Vincent, Caricature of the Painter Pierre-Charles Jombert, 1773-1775, black chalk, Metropolitan Museum of Art

 

I’ll be giving an “Art in Context” lecture at the Kimbell Museum of Art on October 7th, 2015, at 12:30 pm.

From the Kimbell’s site:

Forming Friendships in the Eighteenth Century: Studying Abroad at the French Academy in Rome
Jessica L. Fripp, assistant professor of art history, Texas Christian University, Fort Worth
Wednesday, October 7, 2015 – 12:30 PM

About this lecture: Winning the Prix de Rome was the capstone in an aspiring artist’s career in eighteenth-century France. This talk examines the history of the French Academy in Rome as a site for social networking and forming friendships with other young artists from all over Europe. Jessica Fripp will discuss a group of artists who were in Rome between roughly 1771 and 1774, focusing on a large group of caricatures and paintings by the French painter François-André Vincent (1746–1816).

Free; no reservations required.  Seating is limited.

Kahn Auditorium

Also to note, my colleague at TCU, Babette Bohn, will be speaking in the same series on December 2nd, “Color is the keyboard”: Drawing with Color in Early Modern Italy.”

Some notes on the blog

I hope to use this space to post occasional updates about my research and teaching assignments, so watch this space.

In the meantime, I’m very excited that I will soon be able to see the Caillebotte exhibition at the National Gallery of Art, which opens June 28th. It will be traveling to the Kimbell in the fall, just in time for me to make use of it in both of my courses next semester.