Lecture | The Byzantine Tradition at the Barnes Foundation
Channel: Barnes Foundation
Date: 2022-04-13

About the Talk
Amy Gillette & Kaelin Jewell | “The Byzantine Tradition at the Barnes Foundation”

Join Amy Gillette, research associate, and Kaelin Jewell, senior instructor, as they share new research on the Byzantine tradition at the Barnes. While the collection is best known as a shrine of modern masterpieces, Dr. Albert Barnes designed the galleries as an active educational space to connect past and present experiences of art. He recognized the influence of Byzantine art on 20th-century artists, even declaring that “modern painting developed out of mosaics.” 

In this talk, Gillette and Jewell will discuss Dr. Barnes’s involvement in formulating the Byzantine tradition of modern art, focusing on his writings and wall ensembles and case studies of individual artists. They also consider how the Barnes’s ensembles shape our experiences and interpretations of the Byzantine tradition in the present day.

Speakers
- Amy Gillette
Gillette is a research associate at the Barnes. She earned her PhD in art history from Temple University, specializing in late-medieval art and architecture. Her publications address the music of angels in Gothic and Byzantine art and the formation of medieval collections in Philadelphia during the Gothic Revival movement.

- Kaelin Jewell
Jewell is a member of our adult education faculty. She holds a PhD in late-Roman and early medieval art history from Temple University and has worked as a field archeologist. In addition to her work at the Barnes, Jewell is the art historian for an underwater archaeology project near the Sicilian town of Marzamemi.

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About The Barnes Foundation:
The mission of the Barnes is to promote the advancement of education and the appreciation of the fine arts and horticulture.

Our founder, Dr. Albert C. Barnes, believed that art had the power to improve minds and transform lives. Our diverse educational programs are based on his teachings and one-of-a-kind collections. 

Philadelphia art collector, Albert C. Barnes (1872–1951), chartered the Barnes Foundation in 1922 to teach people from all walks of life how to look at art. Over three decades, he collected some of the world’s most important impressionist, post-impressionist, and modern paintings, including works by Renoir, Cézanne, Matisse, and Picasso. He displayed them alongside African masks, native American jewelry, Greek antiquities, and decorative metalwork.

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