Sharon E. J. Gerstel, University of California, Los Angeles, "Witnessing Byzantium: The Greek Perspective" | Thursday, January 16, 2014
In her illustrated lecture, Sharon Gerstel will examine moments of artistic creativity in Thessalonike, Byzantium’s second city, and their significance for the generations that followed.
The lecture will take place in the West Building Lecture Hall at the National Gallery of Art. This program is coordinated with the National Gallery of Art and is held in association with the exhibition Heaven and Earth: Art of Byzantium from the Greek Collections, on view at the gallery through March 2, 2014.