Join us for a virtual lecture event, "Of Side Wounds, Satan Shoes, and Social Media: Curating Blood: Medieval/Modern at the Getty”, with Dr. Larisa Grollemond.

Blood has both fascinated and repelled generations of artists and viewers. Medieval manuscripts testify to a rich visual culture surrounding blood: devotional, medical, genealogical, and as evidence of violence. In examining the meanings of medieval blood, this talk extends to intersecting contemporary conversations—artists have used the potent visual connotations of blood to explore issues of feminism, HIV/AIDS, and the science of DNA. Medieval and modern approaches to the representation of blood offer instances of both connection and rupture across time.

Dr. Larisa Grollemond is the Assistant Curator in the Manuscripts Department at the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles. She holds a BA from New York University and an MA from Hunter College-CUNY. She completed her PhD at the University of Pennsylvania with a dissertation on late-fifteenth-century manuscript culture at the courts of France. Her research interests include the interaction of manuscript and print at the end of the Middle Ages, hybrid books, late-medieval and Renaissance court culture, and royal patronage of the arts.

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This event is generously sponsored by Temple University's General Activities Fund (GAF), the Art History Department at the Tyler School of Art and Architecture, and Temple University Libraries.

Image: The Side Wound of Christ, illumination in an Illustrated Vita Christi, with Devotional Supplements, ca. 1480–90 CE, tempera colors and gold leaf on parchment, 11.9 x 17 cm (Los Angeles, J. Paul Getty Museum, Ms. 101, fol. 105v)