Amelia Rauser, Professor of Art History, Franklin & Marshall College
This talk will explore how the heady atmosphere of eighteenth-century Naples fueled the fashion for neoclassicism, including the high-waisted white dresses that became fashionable in the 1790s. The tableaux vivants or “attitudes” that Emma Hamilton performed for visiting artists and dignitaries in Naples ignited a longing for an embodied, even libidinal neoclassicism quite different from the cold formalism we might now associate with the style. Sponsored by the Custard Institute for Spanish Art & Culture. Seating is limited, advance registration required.

$10; free for members, SMU faculty/staff/students, and other non-SMU faculty/staff/students