Joslyn Art Museum in partnership with Creighton University presents stimulating lectures by Creighton faculty in Joslyn’s Abbott Lecture Hall on select Sundays at 2:00 pm. CU at Joslyn, offered in collaboration with Creighton’s University College, presents a variety of topics and interdisciplinary perspectives on Joslyn’s collections or exhibitions. CU at Joslyn is free for Museum members and Creighton students and faculty with ID, and $5 for the general public.
CU at Joslyn is supported by the Criss Foundation.
"Childhood Lost: Commemorating the Life and Death of Roman Children" presented by Joseph Baronovic, Sarah Copeland, and Ashley Weed, CU undergraduate researchers; Greg Bucher, mentor
Joslyn possesses two portrait heads of young Romans. One is a youth, a
pastiche made from ancient and post-antique fragments; the other a
portrait of a very young child, perhaps an infant. In our talk, we shall
discuss the practices of the art market as it pertains to the portrait
of the youth, as well as children and their commemoration in the Roman
Empire as exemplified by the iconography of both portraits.
Join us again for another engaging CU at Joslyn program!