An Agnes Rindge Claflin Lecture by Larry Silver

Larry Silver (PhD Harvard, 1974), Farquhar Professor of Art History Emeritus at the University of Pennsylvania, specializes in painting and graphics of Northern Europe, particularly Germany and the Netherlands, during the era of Renaissance and Reformation, and he has a secondary expertise in Jewish art history. He served as President of the College Art Association as well as the Historians of Netherlandish Art. Publications include a general survey, Art in History (1993), Jewish Art: A Modern History (2011; co-authored), and Peasant Scenes and Landscapes (Penn Press, 2006). His museum exhibitions focused on professional engravers in the sixteenth-century Netherlands, Graven Images (1993) and oversized prints of that period, Grand Scale (2008). His other books include monographs on Hieronymus Bosch (2006) and Pieter Bruegel (2011), Marketing Maximilian (Princeton, 2008), on Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I, as well as Rubens, Velázquez, and the King of Spain (2014; co-authored). His work on Rembrandt includes a book-length study, Rembrandt’s Faith (2009), co-authored with Shelley Perlove; Rembrandt and the Divine (2018), and an overview, Rembrandt's Holland (2018).

Sponsored by the Art Department.

The Claflin Lecture series is free and open to the public.