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May 23, 2013
LECTURE

Thinking Globally: Exploring the MIA's Indian and Southeast Asian Art Collection

7 – 8 p.m.
Pillsbury Auditorium

Presenter: Risha Lee, the MIA's Jane Emison Assistant Curator of South and Southeast Asian Art. The MIA's Indian and Southeast Asian art collection contains many gems of art, produced in a variety of times and places. In an introduction to the collecti...
Exhibition

Pierre-Paul Prud’hon, French, 1759-1823. The Union of Love and Friendship, c. 1793 Oil on canvas. The John R. Van Derlip Fund and The William Hood Dunwoody Fund

Cupid and Psyche: Neoclassical Visions of Love

Saturday, February 11, 2006—Sunday, August 20, 2006
Gallery 306
Free Exhibition

Baron François Gérard's famous painting, Cupid and Psyche, is on temporary loan to The Minneapolis Institute of Arts from the Musée du Louvre during the spring and summer of 2006. A small dossier exhibition, it features relevant works from the Institute's permanent collection, including Prud'hon's Union of Love and Friendship, Pajou's bronze Psyche Abandoned, and supplementary works on paper. Focusing primarily on Cupid and Psyche, the exhibition explores the context in which these works were created, including the neoclassical movement in France, Jacques Louis David and his pupils, the artist's penchant for mythological subjects and the popularity of the Cupid and Psyche theme.