Dance through Time: Antiquity and the Ballets Russes - Illustrated Lecture by Clare Fitzgerald

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Clare Fitzgerald
Associate Director for Exhibitions and Gallery Director, ISAW

This lecture, presented at La Maison Française, is held in conjunction with the exhibition Hymn to Apollo: The Ancient World and the Ballets Russes, on view at NYU’s Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, 15 East 84th St., from March 6 to June 2.

In English

Co-sponsored by the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World and La Maison Française

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^{Image 1:

Léon Bakst

Costume Design for Tamara Karsavina as Chloé, for Daphnis et Chloé

ca. 1912

Graphite and tempera and/or watercolor on paper

H. 28.2 cm; W. 44.7 cm

Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT, The Ella Gallup Sumner and Mary Catlin Sumner Collection Fund: 1933.392

Image: Allen Phillips/Wadsworth Atheneum}

^{Image 2:

Attributed to the Frignano Painter

Skyphos with a Dancing Maenad

Late Classical, 375–350 BCE

Terracotta

Campania, Italy

H. 16.5 cm; W. 15 cm

Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of Dr. Harris Kennedy, Class of 1894: 1932.56.39

Photo: Imaging Department © President and Fellows of Harvard College}