IN FOCUS GALLERY TALK

MEDIEVAL FRENCH ARTIST’S CIRCUMCISION

ELLIOT MACKIN

MONDAY, 8 APRIL 2024, 3:00-3:30PM

BARNES FOUNDATION, PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA

Unidentified artist, probably French. Circumcision (detail), 15th century. BF869. Public Domain. https://www.barnesfoundation.org/whats-on/talks/gallery-talk-april-2024

Elliot Mackin, a doctoral candidate in the history of art at the University of Pennsylvania, leads an in-depth discussion about the medieval painting Circumcision. The talk takes place in Room 4.

In Focus Gallery Talks are 30-minute discussions held in the Barnes collection galleries presented in partnership with the University of Pennsylvania’s history of art graduate program. In Focus talks provide new interpretative approaches and intensive focus on individual works in the collection.

Mackin is a doctoral candidate in the history of art at the University of Pennsylvania. He is currently writing his dissertation, “Seeing Christ Queerly: Beauty, Power, and the Passion of Christ in Byzantine Art.” Mackin‘s In Focus talks look at medieval art in the Barnes collection and explore issues of gender, sexuality, race, religion, and power.

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