Writing on Still Life (CANCELLED)

In this interactive online session, led by art history graduate students Alejandro Octavio Nodarse (Harvard University) and Sara Petrilli-Jones (Yale University and Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa), we will look closely at a still-life drawing by Margaretha de Heer, called Still Life of Flowers and Small Animals on a Ledge (1642). Together, you will consider the relationship between looking, describing, and imagining. Prompted by De Heer’s drawing, we will ask a series of questions: how might such a work engage our senses? What responses—individual and collective—does it elicit? How has the artist’s gender played a role in the creation and reception of the work? All participants will be invited to share their responses through conversation and writing.