Noted Specialist In Neoclassical And Romantic Painting And Sculpture To Speak At U.Va.

Nov. 4, 1999 -- The University of Virginia’s McIntire Department of Art will sponsor a lecture by Dorothy Johnson, a specialist in European painting and sculpture of the Neoclassical and Romantic periods. Johnson will lecture on "Myth and Mind: Girodet and Romantic Hellenism" on Thursday, Nov. 11, at 5:30 p.m. in Room 160, Campbell Hall. A reception in Fayerweather Hall will follow the lecture.

Johnson is head of the school of Art and Architecture at the University of Iowa and the author of "Jacques-Louis David: Art in Metamorphosis." She is a noted authority on the artist, who is the father of the modern school of French art.

For more information contact Sylvia New Strawn at (804) 924-6123.

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SOURCE: U.Va. News Services

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