Art Lovers Book Club – Attleboro Arts Museum
PASCALE RIHOUET
Attleboro Arts Museum’s Art Lovers Book Club Presents Plunder: Napoleon’s Theft of Veronese’s Feast By Cynthia Saltzman Saturday, October 29th from 2pm-4pm, EST.
Free and open to all.
Guest Speaker: Pascale Rihouet, PhD, Rhode Island School of Design, Senior Lecturer, Theory + History of Art + Design Virtual format – Registration is required in advance of the meeting.
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https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwsf-qorTgtGNe9singZVNpfq4z3Dv0JwWB
After registering, a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting will be issued. This meeting of the Art Lovers Book Club is funded by the ATT-Texins. October 13th, 2022
Attleboro, MA The Art Lovers Book Club at the Attleboro Arts Museum blends art, culture, and literature through vivid presentations and discussions. An author, subject matter expert, or screening of a film opens each session. Meetings are free of charge and open to the public.
On Saturday, October 29th, from 2pm-4pm, EST, the Book Club will meet virtually to discuss Plunder: Napoleon’s Theft of Veronese’s Feast by Cynthia Saltzman. Plunder recounts the fate of Paolo Veronese’s Wedding Feast at Cana, a vast canvas that the French, under the command of the young Napoleon Bonaparte, tore from a wall of the monastery of San Giorgio Maggiore, on an island in Venice, in 1797.
Registration is required in advance of the meeting.
Click on this link to register:
https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwsf-qorTgtGNe9singZVNpfq4z3Dv0JwWB
After registering, a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting will be issued.
Guest Speaker Pascale Rihouet
Pascale Rihouet, a born and bred Parisian, is an art historian and scholar specializing in European art from 1400–1800.
At RISD since 2008, she has taught in that field in addition to courses in the history of glass, performance art, modern and post-modern art, and history of drawing. She has widely published on Renaissance art and rituals, as well as material culture and group identity in English, French and Italian academic journals, and has co-authored several publications.
In 2013 Rihouet published an article on Veronese’s Wedding Feast at Canain the Journal of Design History, from the point of view of dining rituals. Attleboro Arts Museum
The Attleboro Arts Museum involves audiences of all ages and backgrounds in the visual arts through diverse educational programs and engaging arts experiences. We work to support the creative and artistic development of both promising and professional artists.
The Museum is a privately supported, non-profit arts institution whose core commitment to “Arts for Everyone” guides the Museum’s programs and operations.