In Praise of Women: Pietro Rotari in Russia
Carol Togneri
- DATE:
- TIME:
- 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm
- Speaker:
- Carol Togneri, Chief Curator, Norton Simon Museum
To mark the installation of the Museum’s eight Pietro Rotari paintings in the exhibition Serial Flirtations: Rotari’s Muses, Togneri discusses the last phase of this 18th-century painter’s career. After his success as a painter of religious images and aristocratic portraits, Rotari found his hallmark style outside of Italy when he ventured far from Verona to Vienna, Dresden and finally St. Petersburg. His hundreds of depictions of anonymous country girls in various costumes, posing and emoting, are easily recognizable images. His Russian studio was prolific in its output, making the artist’s own hand in a work sometimes indiscernible from that of one of his students.
EVENT DETAILS
- Fee:
- Free with Admission
- Details:
- Stickers for ensured seating are distributed in the Main Entrance gallery starting at 3:00 p.m. Members enjoy early seating between 3:30 and 3:45 p.m.; general admission seating begins at 3:45 p.m.
- Location:
- Theater