Anne Dunlop, Associate Professor, History of Art at Tulane University, gives the lecture "Early Italian Painters and the Secret Life of Stones."
Early Italian paintings were made with gold from Africa and silvers and tins from northern and central Europe, with lapis from central Asia, and local earths and stones. This talk looks at the associations that these materials brought with them, and how the properties of pigments gave meaning to the paintings they were used to create.