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Making a Good Death in the Middle Ages
As a result of extensive famines, deadly plagues, and interminable wars, the later Middle Ages was haunted by the specter of death. Preachers, poets, playwrights, and artists emphasized death's imminence by developing the theme of memento mori: "Remember you will die." Richard Emmerson, dean, School of Arts, Manhattan College, shows how artists employed a variety of literary and iconographic traditions to "make a good death."
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Thursday, May 31, 2012, 7:30 p.m.
Getty Center, Museum Lecture Hall
What Does Heaven Look Like?
This panel of art historians, scholars of religion, and religious leaders reflects on depictions of death and the afterlife—from the Middle Ages to the present—and what they say about the cultures that create them.
Thursday, July 26, 2012, 7:30 p.m.
Getty Center, Harold M. Williams Auditorium
Curators' Gallery Talks
Elizabeth Morrison, curator of Manuscripts, the J. Paul Getty Museum, leads a gallery talk on the exhibition.
Thursday, June 7, 2012, 2:30 p.m.
Wednesday, July 18, 2012, 2:30 p.m.
Meet under the stairs in the Museum Entrance Hall.
From grinning corpses to Christ's crucifixion, hear why artists and well, everyone in the Middle Ages, was obsessed with death. Pick up an iPod Touch in the Museum Entrance Hall.
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Film Series: Dante's Inferno
In conjunction with the exhibition, this series focuses on three interpretations of Dante Alighieri's Inferno. Since the fifteenth century, illustrators, painters, and (finally) filmmakers have envisioned the "nine circles of hell." The weekend includes the cinematically momentous interpretation of L'Inferno, the gritty social(ist) commentary of the 1924 Dante's Inferno, and the live-action puppetry and postmodern renderings of the recent Dante's Inferno.
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L'Inferno (1911)
Saturday, June 23, 2012, 3:00 p.m.
Getty Center, Harold M. Williams Auditorium
Dante's Inferno (2007)
Saturday, June 23, 2012, 7:00 p.m.
Getty Center, Harold M. Williams Auditorium
Dante's Inferno (1924)
Silent, presented with live piano accompaniment. Preserved by the Museum of Modern Art with support from The National Endowment of the Arts and The Film Foundation.
Sunday, June 24, 2012, 3:00 p.m.
Getty Center, Harold M. Williams Auditorium
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