Thursday, March 22, 2012 at 4:00 p.m.
Robert and Karen Hoehn Family Galleries, Founders HallReception to follow
A Display of 16th and 17th Century Religious Prints from USD's Hoehn Collection, featuring works by Dürer, Rembrandt, Beham, Goltzius, Jordaens and Ribera. Introduced by Victoria Sancho Lobis and followed by a brief talk by Professor Kiely, on discerning the theological meaning behind religious works of art.
Followed at 5:00 p.m. by a lecture in the Galley Talk Series by Professor Sally Yard, Department of Art, Art History + Architecture together with Megan Walter ('12), Humanities and Art History
In collaboration with the Hoehn Print Study Room and University Design
Object list "The Art of Faith" with Robert Kiely
- Hans Sebald Beham
Saint Peter and Saint Paul, c. 1520; Engraving
- Albrecht Dürer
Saint George, 1508; Engraving
- Albrecht Dürer
Saint Mary Magdalen, c. 1500; Woodcut
- Hendrick Goltzius
Christ Carrying the Cross (Passion series), 1596-98; Engraving
- Hendrick Goltzius
The Last Supper (Passion series), 1596-98; Engraving
- Jacob Jordaens
Descent from the Cross, 1652; Etching
- Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-69)
Descent from the Cross by Torchlight, 1654; Etching
- Jusepe de Ribera
The Penitence of St. Peter, 1621; Etching
Art: Rembrandt Harmensz, van Rijn
The Descent from the Cross, 1633
Etching
20 3/4 X 16 1/8 inches (52.6 X 41 cm)
Collection University of San Diego
Gift of Robert and Karen Hoehn
"Kiely's knowledge of literature and his fascination with religious images come together exquisitely. . . certain to attract a diversity of readers with interests in religion, literature, and art."
About Robert Kiely
Robert J. Kiely is Donald P. and Katherine B. Loker Professor of English, Emeritus at Harvard University. He is a graduate of Amherst College and took his doctorate at Harvard. He served for three years in the U.S. Naval Reserve, two years in Pearl Harbor, and one aboard the USS Coral Sea. Professor Kiely taught courses in the Victorian, modern and postmodern novel, the English Bible, Classics of Christian Literature, and the Rhetoric of Belief.
His books include Beyond Egotism: The Fiction of James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, and D. H. Lawrence; Reverse Tradition: Postmodern Fictions and the Nineteenth Century Novel; and Still Learning: Spiritual Sketches from a Professor's Life. His recent book, Blessed and Beautiful: Picturing the Saints, focuses on the relationship between writings by and about saints and their depictions in Italian Renaissance art. Professor Kiely is a Benedictine Oblate and a member of the Community of Sant' Egidio, founded in Rome in 1968.
