{"id":3986,"date":"2024-02-29T10:48:43","date_gmt":"2024-02-29T15:48:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/source\/?p=3986"},"modified":"2024-03-21T15:20:01","modified_gmt":"2024-03-21T19:20:01","slug":"daap-library-exhibit-celebrates-renaissance-painter-catherina-van-hemessen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/source\/daap-library-exhibit-celebrates-renaissance-painter-catherina-van-hemessen\/","title":{"rendered":"DAAP Library exhibit celebrates Renaissance painter Catharina van Hemessen"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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By Christopher Platts, assistant professor of art history<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

On display from March 8 through April 8 in the Robert A. Deshon and Karl J. Schlachter Library for Design, Architecture, Art and Planning (DAAP)<\/a>, the exhibition, Rediscovering Catharina van Hemmessen\u2019s Scourging of Christ<\/em>: Women Artists, Patrons and Rulers in Renaissance Europe<\/strong>, features paintings, woodcuts, engravings, illuminated manuscripts, and illustrated printed books from the special collections of UC Libraries as well as a local private collection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Catharina van Hemessen was arguably the most important woman artist in Northern Europe during the 16th<\/sup> century, and her paintings are currently the highlights of numerous exhibitions and installations worldwide. Museums everywhere are actively trying to acquire paintings by her, and only a handful of institutions, all in Europe, have a signed work by her (only a dozen survive). The DAAP Library is exhibiting one of these, the Scourging of Christ<\/em>. One of her few narrative paintings, it is relatively unknown to scholars because it has rarely been exhibited or studied at first hand. It is her last dated painting, made when she was an artist at the court of Mary of Hungary, regent of the Netherlands, in Madrid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The exhibition was curated by Elizabeth Meyer, head of the DAAP Library, Christopher Platts, assistant professor of art history, and Mike Ruzga, independent art conservator. Collaborators on the exhibition include Chris Harter, archivist and head of the Archives and Rare Books Library, Aaron Cowan, director of the UC Art Collection and DAAP Galleries, Sharon Purtee, interim head of the Donald C. Harrison Health Sciences Library, and Holly Prochaska, Preservation Librarian and Lab Co-Manager, Jessica Ebert, Senior Conservation Specialist, and Catarina Figueirinhas Assistant Conservator, all three from the Preservation Lab.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A reception and series of gallery talks are planned for the following dates:<\/p>\n\n\n\n