Free with museum admission, advance registration is required.
Diane Wolfthal, David and Caroline Minter Chair Emerita in the Humanities and Professor Emerita of Art History, Rice University, and Guest Curator of the Exhibition
The rise of the monetary economy transformed every aspect of late medieval European society, including its values and culture. How did manuscript illuminations, sculpture, panel paintings, and illustrations in printed books reflect and reinforce the complex ethical discussions that developed from the widespread role of money in everyday life? How does medieval art shed light on greed, charity, economic inequality, and money management, topics just as relevant today? These questions will be addressed in this lecture by guest curator Diane Wolfthal, David and Caroline Minter Chair Emerita in the Humanities and Professor Emerita of Art History, Rice University.
The exhibition Medieval Money, Merchants, and Morality will be open at 5 pm for program attendees.
Robinet Testard, Avarice, from a book of hours, France, Poitiers, ca. 1475. The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, MS M.1001, fol. 91r (detail)