Lecture | Keith Christiansen: Giovanni Bellini’s “Pietà” Restored

Join esteemed art historian Keith Christiansen for a lecture on the early Renaissance masterpiece Pietà (also known as Dead Christ Supported by Angels, ca. 1470) by Giovanni Bellini (1424/26–1516), on view in the United States for the first time, on loan from the Museo della Città in Rimini, Italy. 

Keith Christiansen is Curator Emeritus at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In his 40-year career at the Museum, he began as Assistant Curator and served as the John Pope-Hennessy Chairman of European Paintings, where he collaborated in the organization of over 20 exhibitions on Italian, Spanish and French artists. He has taught at Columbia University and the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University and was the Clarence and Ruth Wedgewood Kennedy Professor in Renaissance Studies at Smith College (1999) and guest professor at Vassar (2006). Christiansen has published widely and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, conferred by the Ministry of Arts in France. 

This lecture will take place in Gilder Lehrman Hall on the Ground Floor. Doors to the Hall will open 30 minutes before the program begins. Attendees are encouraged to view Giovanni Bellini’s Pietà from 5:15-6 PM. 

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