Event Details

End: July 31, 2014
Contact: lcolli@mfa.org
More Info: http://www.mfa.org/programs/lecture/americas-liberty-and-art

America's Liberty and Art: MFA, Boston Lecture Highlights Magna Carta

 

Potential Audiences: American History Experts and Enthusiasts; Art Historians

 

Complements forthcoming exhibition, Magna Carta: Cornerstone of Liberty http://www.mfa.org/news/magna_carta

 

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Thursday, July 31, 2014

7:00 - 8:00 p.m.

Remis Auditorium

 

Presenter: Gerald Ward, senior consulting curator; Katharine Lane Weems Consulting Senior Curator Emeritus.

 

England’s Magna Carta, written in 1215, is often cited as the cornerstone of liberty in the Anglo-American legal tradition. On loan from Lincoln Cathedral, one of only four surviving copies of the original Magna Carta is on view at the MFA in July and August with other documents and symbols of liberty. Join expert Gerald Ward to cover almost 800 years of art and related texts that refer to this celebrated document and underscore its ongoing importance.