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New! Bilingual Storytime at the Nasher Museum
Thursday, November 9, 11 AM

Join us for an art-making activity and a story read in Spanish and English by our friends from Durham Public Library. Free for kids ages 1-5 and adult caregivers. Groups of 8 or more must register: nashered@duke.edu.

DOLCI PARTNER: Explore the Arts
JB Duke Hotel, Duke's West Campus

Enjoy overnight accommodations at the JB Duke Hotel with the Explore the Arts Package. This package includes breakfast at the hotel’s restaurant, a copy of the Brighter Leaves coffee table book celebrating the arts in Durham, an "Art Walk" handout discussing the local art on view at the hotel, a ticket to The Medici's Painter exhibition at the Nasher Museum for each registered guest, complimentary hotel shuttle service to and from the Nasher Museum and late checkout at 1 p.m.  Book now!

Inflamed by Faith: "Carlo Dolci and the Everyday Sacred"
Thursday, November 9, 6 PM

Gallery talk by Rabbi Elana Friedman, Campus Rabbi and Jewish Chaplain for Jewish Life at Duke. Free with a ticket to The Medici’s Painter. Free to all members.

Live Musical Performance: "The Sound World of Carlo Dolci"
Thursday, November 9, 7 PM

Duke University Musical Instrument Collections and the Nasher Museum co-present an evening of vocal music of 17th-century Italy, featuring works by Strozzi, Merula and Monteverdi. Pre-concert talk by Claire Fontijn (Ph.D. ’94), Phyllis Henderson Carey Professor of Music  and Chair of the Department of Music at Wellesley College. Musicians are Laurie Monahan, Berklee College of Music; Catherine Liddell, Boston University; and Laura Jeppesen, Wellesley College. Part of Duke Music Department’s Rare Music series. $5 or free with a ticket to The Medici’s Painter. Free to all members.

Saturday, November 11, 11 AM.
Slow Art Tour. Join gallery guide Meg Williams for a slower look at a single work of art, Silvia Heyden’s Hurricane, within the Disorderly Conduct exhibition.

Sunday, November 12, 2 PM
Join gallery guide Mary Jean Lowrie for a themed tour entitled “Carlo Dolci: A Man of Devotion.” Lowrie will discuss Dolci’s religious works and how his piousness and devotion translated into his art in multiple ways. Free with a ticket to The Medici’s Painter.

The Medici's Painter: Member Morning
Sunday, November 12, 10 AM - Noon

All Nasher members are invited to explore the galleries before the crowds and enjoy coffee and pastries inspired by Carlo Dolci’s world of 17th-Century Florence.

                       

Carlo Dolci, The Repentent Saint Peter (detail), early 1650s. Oil on canvas, 58 x 61 1/4 inches (147 cm x 155.6 cm). The Bob Jones University Museum and Gallery, Greenville, SC.

Carlo Dolci, The Virgin and Child (detail), late 1640s. Oil on canvas, 44 ½ x 39 ¼ inches (112.7 cm x 99.7 cm). Collection of The Bob Jones University Museum and Gallery, Greenville, SC.

Silvia Heyden, Hurricane, 20th century. Silk and linen, 80 3/4 × 94 1/4 inches (205.1 × 239.4 cm). Collection of the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University. Gift of Mary D.B.T. Semans and James H. Semans, M.D.; 1976.101.1. © Estate of Silvia Heyden. Photo by Peter Paul Geoffrion.

Photos by J Caldwell.

Nasher Museum exhibitions and programs are generously supported by the Mary Duke Biddle Foundation, the late Mary D.B.T. Semans and James H. Semans, the late Frank E. Hanscom III, The Duke Endowment, the Nancy Hanks Endowment, the Courtney Shives Art Museum Fund, the James Hustead Semans Memorial Fund, the Janine and J. Tomilson Hill Family Fund, the Trent A. Carmichael Fund for Community Education, the Neely Family Fund, the E. T. Rollins, Jr. and Frances P. Rollins Fund for the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, the Marilyn M. Arthur Fund, the Sarah Schroth Fund, the George W. and Viola Mitchell Fearnside Endowment Fund, the Gibby and Michael B. Waitzkin Fund, the K. Brantley and Maxine E. Watson Endowment Fund, the Victor and Lenore Behar Endowment Fund, the Margaret Elizabeth Collett Fund, the Nasher Museum of Art General Endowment, the Friends of the Nasher Museum of Art, and the Office of the President and the Office of the Provost, Duke University.

The Collection Galleries is made possible by Nasher Annual Fund donors with special support from Anita and John Schwarz.

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