February
2010
Sunday, February 7, 2010
| 10:15 am - 11:15 am | Parish Hall
CANCELED - Adult Forum: Symbols in Christian Art
with Donald Schrader, VMFA Lecturer
From the earliest times Christianity employed the visual arts to convey messages, and visual ‘symbols' have always played a role in religious art. This forum will explore iconography - the meanings of these metaphorical images - in a variety of periods from the hand gestures of early Christian and Byzantine art, to the system of attributes that enables us to identify the saints, as well as the elaborate symbolic world of early Renaissance religion. Special guest Donald Schrader will lead this forum.
Schrader received his MA and PhD degress in art history from the University of Virginia. He has taught Renaissance and 17th Century studies at Virginia Commonwealth University, the University of Richmond, and the College of William and Mary. He currently teaches Art History at the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, and lectures at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.
