Keith Christiansen

Keith Christiansen is the John Pope-Hennessy Chairman of European Paintings at The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Keith Christiansen: "Finding Our Way into Bellini's St. Francis..."

Link to video of Keith Christiansen lecture

In Bellini’s great masterpiece, the traditional relationship of figure to setting has been reversed, thus engaging us in a way that transforms our experience of the picture and our understanding of the artist’s creative genius. Keith Christiansen will discuss the impetus behind this transformation and its implications for interpreting the picture’s much-discussed subject. This lecture was made possible by the Robert H. Smith Family Foundation.