Public Lecture – Frances Gage: Picturing La Vecchia: Time, Gender and Aging in the Early Modern Imagination

Public Lecture (open to all)
Frances Gage (Buffalo State University), will give a public keynote lecture at the University of Groningen (as an addition to the masterclass also taking place there on June 4th, see events calendar). In her groundbreaking book Painting as Medicine in Early Modern Rome (Pennsylvania, 2008), she has shown that paintings were understood to have profound effects on the minds, imaginations, and bodies of viewers. This interpretation of the value of paintings and the motivations for buying them, challenges the idea that art was mainly because of economic or status-based reasons. Instead, paintings were believed to have profound health effects and conducive to civic and moral behaviour. The title of Gage’s lecture is: Picturing La Vecchia: Time, Gender and Aging in the Early Modern Imagination.

Date: 4 June 2025
Time: 16:00-17:30
Location: University of Groningen, Academy Building, A7
Info: h.g.knoeff@rug.nl

The lecture is open to all, no registration needed!