Coming Up

Wednesday, November 29, 12–1:30 p.m.

Inside the Museum Exhibition
Students in Professor James Harper’s “Inside Museum
Exhibitions” class share their research on topics related to the
Barberini and 17th century tapestry.

Wednesday, January 10, 5:30 p.m.

Where Innovation and Technology Meet:
The Nexus of Geographic Technologies
and the Arts and Humanities at UO
Lecture by Ken Kato, Director UO GIS and Mapping Program,
co-designer of the Barberini Tapestries interactive website.

Wednesday, January 17, 5:30 p.m.

The Baroque Science of Color
Lecture by Vera Keller, Associate Professor of History

June 8–16, 2018

The Italy of the Barberini
Join Professor Harper on this very special tour to Barberini-
related sites in and around Florence and Rome.
Contact Esther Harclerode for details: estherh@uoregon.edu.

The Exhibition
The Barberini Tapestries: Woven Monuments of Baroque
Rome, on view through January 21, 2018, features one of the
Barberini’s most renowned series –the Life of Christ– on loan
from the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York City. The
exhibition aims to further our appreciation of these awe-in-
spiring objects, both as aesthetic environments and as cultural
artifacts.

In the age of the Baroque, tapestries were among the most

precious objects in any collection, lending a material splendor
to the residences of the powerful. In the competition for mag-
nificence that animated 17th century Rome, the Barberini (the
family of Pope Urban VIII) outdid all their rivals by founding
their own tapestry workshop in 1625, creating custom-wo-
ven designs by such eminent artists as Pietro da Cortona and
Giovanni Francesco Romanelli.

The exhibition was co-curated by James Harper, associate

professor, History of Art and Architecture at the University of
Oregon, and Marlene Eidelheit, director of the Textile Con-
servation Laboratory at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine.
Its showing at the JSMA is made possible with the generous
support of the National Endowment for the Arts, the National
Endowment for the Humanities, Alex and Amanda Haugland,
Dentistry @ The Ten, Sharon Ungerleider, Excelsior Inn and Symposium: Baroque Tapestry
Ristorante Italiano, and JSMA members.
and the Rome of the Barberini
The exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated publication
and an interactive online learning experience, November 16–17, 2017
http://barberini.uoregon.edu/, created by University of Oregon’s
Department of Geography and Campus GIS Office.

Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art

University of Oregon
Symposium: Baroque Tapestry
and the Rome of the Barberini

Thursday, November 16

4:30–5:00 p.m.
David Rogers in Concert: Lute Music from the 12:15–2:00 p.m.
Barberini Court Lunch Break; Viewing of the Exhibition
5:30–6:30 p.m. Session Two: Baroque Tapestry in America
Keynote Moderator: James G. Harper, Associate Professor, History of Art
The Loom of Time: Music and Tapestry in Five and Architecture, University of Oregon
Barberini Spaces
2:00–2:45 p.m.
Frederick Hammond, Irma Brandeis Professor Emeritus of
Romance Cultures and Music History, Bard College The Turn-of-the-Century American Art
Market for Baroque Tapestry: Strategies &
Friday, November 17 Opportunities
Charissa Bremer-David, Curator of Textiles, J. Paul Getty
9:00 a.m. Morning Refreshments Museum

9:20 a.m. Welcome 2:45–3:30 p.m.

Jill Hartz, Executive Director, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art
Session One: The Seventeenth Century
Moderator, Thomas P. Campbell,
2017-18 Getty Rothschild Fellow, Getty Foundation
9:30–10:15 a.m.
The Marquis of Caracena’s Scipio Ensemble and
Collaborative Entrepreneurial Action in Brussels
Tapestry c. 1660
Koenraad Brosens, Associate Professor, University of Leuven
10:15–11:00 a.m.
The Painting and the Palace: Valentin de
Boulogne’s Italia Barberiniana
Louise Rice, Associate Professor of Art History, New York University
11:00–11:15 a.m. Break
11:15 a.m.–12:00 p.m.
The Pope’s Own Emperor: Pietro da Cortona and
the Customized Meaning of the Barberini Life of
Constantine Tapestries
James G. Harper, Associate Professor, History of Art and Architecture,
University of Oregon
12:00–12:15 p.m.
Les fêtes du centenaire: Demonstration of the
Interactive “Virtual Gesù” Project
Presented by Caroline Phillips, graduate student in UO’s
Department of the History of Art and Architecture, on behalf
of Pascal-François Bertrand, Professor, Université Bordeaux
Montaigne
Royalty and Robber Barons: The Influence of
European Grand Styles on American Tapestries
Alice Zrebiec, Independent Scholar and Curatorial Consultant,
Santa Fe, NM
3:30–3:45 p.m. Break
3:45–4:30 p.m.
The Barberini Tapestries as Architecture’s
Ephemeral Skin: The Case of the Cathedral of St.
John the Divine, New York City
Lisa Pon, Professor, Southern Methodist University
4:30–5:00 p.m.
Discussion with Presenters
5:00–5:30 p.m.
Join Valerie Soll, Senior Textile Conservator,
Cathedral of St. John the Divine, New York,
in the gallery to learn more about the
conservation of the tapestries.
5:30 p.m.
Please join us in the Faculty Club for
refreshments and continued conversation.
The symposium is made possible with the support of the National
Endowment for the Humanities, the UO College of Design, the Sally
Claire Haseltine Endowment in the Department of the History of Art and
Architecture, and the Oregon Humanities Center’s Endowment for Public
Outreach in the Arts, Sciences, and Humanities.