“The Pleasures of Allegory: Rethinking ‘Susanna and the Elders’”, Professor Patricia Simons (University of Michigan)

Date: Monday 21 March, 2016
Time: 6–7:30pm
Venue: Mills Lecture Theatre 209, RC Mills Building, The University of Sydney
RSVP: Free event with online registration here: http://whatson.sydney.edu.au/events/published/power-institute-lecture-professor-patricia-simons

Jacopo Tintoretto’s Susanna and the Elders is commonly read as a case of male voyeurism, in subject and purpose, or as mere moralizing allegory. This lecture moves away from each reductive extreme by reexamining the story’s history and visual effect.

Patricia Simons is Professor of Art History, University of Michigan. Her field of study includes the art of Renaissance Europe (primarily Italy, France and the Netherlands) with a special focus on the representation of gender and sexuality.