Annual Rosenberg Fête: Celebrating French Art of the 18th Century

Step back in time to 18th-century France at the annual Rosenberg Fête celebrating French art from the Michael L. Rosenberg Collection. This year, Dr. Oliver Wunsch, Associate Professor at Boston College, presents Rosalba Carriera and Africa’s Difference. FREE with registration. Schedule of Events: Music in the Galleries 5:30–6:20 p.m., European Art Galleries, Level 2 Lecture: Rosalba Carriera and Africa’s Difference 6:30–7:30 p.m., Horchow Auditorium Rosalba Carriera and Africa’s Difference: Around the time she visited Paris in 1720, the Venetian artist Rosalba Carriera created a remarkable series of pastel allegories representing the Four Continents. Rather than emphasizing the traditional accessories and geographic settings of Europe, Asia, Africa, and America, Carriera brought the figures close to the viewer, treating them as vivid studies of color, surface, and facial expression. Within this already unusual group, the personification of Africa (Dallas Museum of Art, 2024.24.FA) esp