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Empress Furia Tranquillina and the Dynamics of Late Roman Portraiture
Date: March 1, 2012
Event Description
Pieter Broucke, director of the arts, professor of history of art and architecture, and associate curator of ancient art, discusses the museum’s 2010 acquisition of a portrait of the late Roman empress Tranquillina. She was the wife of Gordian III, who ruled from 238–244 ce, during the tumultuous time of the “Soldier Emperors.” In his illustrated lecture, Broucke contextualizes this important new acquisition in historical and art-historical terms. Sponsored by the Middlebury College Museum of Art and theDepartment of History of Art and Architecture. Free
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