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News from PRINCETON UNIVERSITY CONTACT: Ruta Smithson (609) 258-3763 Prints, Drawings, and Books by European Masters Accompany Anthony van Dyck Exhibition at Princeton University Art MuseumExhibition Dates: March 9 through June 9, 2002 PRINCETON -- The dramatic story of Christ's Passion has been told, enacted, and imagined countless times in Christian culture. It is examined again in an exhibition entitled "In the Mirror of Christ's Passion: Prints, Drawings, and Illustrated Books by European Masters" on view through June 9, 2002, at the Princeton University Art Museum in conjunction with the exhibition "Anthony van Dyck: Ecce Homo and the Mocking of Christ." Christ's Passion -- his agony, arrest, trial, tortures, death, and resurrection -- was a subject of profound interest to European artists from the medieval to Baroque periods. In this exhibition, the theme is presented in a selection of fifty-six prints, drawings, and illustrated books from the art museum and the Department of Rare Books at Firestone Library. Organized by Todor Todorov, Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Art and Archaeology, "In the Mirror of Christ's Passion" offers a rare opportunity to appreciate and compare some of the highest achievements of artistic imagination and spiritual vision by such masters as Dürer, Guercino, Mantegna, Rembrandt, and Schongauer. "When seen side by side, these images are astonishing in their multiplicity and variety of human emotions and distinct diversity of artistic intention," notes Mr. Todorov. Most of the drawings on view are preparatory studies made for single altarpieces and frescoes. By contrast, many of the prints were conceived in series and intended to be seen in sequence. In their own time, these narrative images were an important means of Christian devotion: they stimulated attentive observation and engaged the viewer in reflection on Christ's story and on one's place in Christian history, providing a mirror to one's own piety. Such prints often found their place in books alongside devotional texts. An example of this function of the Passion cycle is a unique prayerbook made for Dürer's patron, Frederick the Wise, the Elector of Saxony, where each of the hand-written prayers faces a scene from Dürer's Engraved Passion (1508 -- 12). Another auxiliary exhibition, "Reflections of the Passion: Selected Works from the Princeton University Art Museum," has been organized in conjunction with the Van Dyck exhibition. A full program of events, including lectures, gallery talks, concerts, and a series of films introduced by Princeton faculty members, also has been scheduled. Related EventsMarch 174:00 p.m. Music: Princeton Symphony Orchestra. "Easter: Passion and Redemption" Mark Laycock, music director. Works by Cesti-Stokowski, Haydn, Pfitzner, and Wagner. Richardson Auditorium. Reception to follow, 6:00 -- 7:30 p.m., Princeton University Art Museum. April 512:30 p.m. Gallery Talk: "Titian, Van Dyck, and the Body of Christ." Betsy Rosasco, associate curator of Later Western art. Princeton University Art Museum. April 73:00 p.m. Gallery Talk: "Titian, Van Dyck, and the Body of Christ." Betsy Rosasco, associate curator of Later Western art. Princeton University Art Museum. April 127:00 p.m. Film: Martin Scorsese, The Last Temptation of Christ. Introduced by P. Adams Sitney, professor, Visual Arts Program. James Stewart Theater, 185 Nassau Street. Reception to follow, Lucas Gallery. April 1912:30 p.m. Gallery Talk: "Reflections of the Passion in the Art of the Late Middle Ages." Victoria S. Reed, Friends curatorial research associate. Princeton University Art Museum. April 197:00 p.m. Film: Pier Paolo Pasolini, The Gospel According to Matthew. Introduced by Jeffrey L. Stout, professor, Department of Religious Studies. James Stewart Theater, 185 Nassau Street. April 213:00 p.m. Music: Princeton Singers in Concert. Steven Sametz, artistic director. Mary Ellen Bowen Gallery. Princeton University Art Museum. April 234:30 p.m. Lecture: "Christ's Passion in Northern European Art of the Late Middle Ages." James Marrow, professor emeritus, Department of Art and Archaeology. McCormick 101. Reception to follow in the museum April 267:00 p.m. Film: Luis Buñuel, Viridiana. Introduced by Michael Wood, chairman, Department of English. James Stewart Theater, 185 Nassau Street. 12:30 p.m. Gallery Talk: "The Mirror of Christ's Passion." Todor Todorov, Ph.D. candidate, Department of Art and Archaeology. April 283:00 p.m. Gallery Talk: "The Mirror of Christ's Passion." Todor Todorov, Ph.D. candidate, Department of Art and Archaeology.
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