Date:
Monday, April 23, 2018, 5:30pm to 7:00pm
Location:
Harvard Art Museums: Deknatel Hall, 32 Quincy Street
This talk explores how, in the wake of the world’s first international financial crisis, Cupid claimed pride of place in French eighteenth-century art—personifying not only the folly of love, but also the forces of inconstancy, mutability and flightiness that were viewed as hallmarks of a modernizing credit economy.
Presented by the HAA Graduate Student Lecture Series