Monday, July 27, 2020, 11:30 AM – 1 PM EDT
Elizabeth Pastan, Professor of Art History“Notre-Dame of Paris: One Year Later”
Elizabeth Pastan, Professor of Art History at Emory, specializes in medieval art and architecture, in which field she has paid particular attention to the stunning stained glass work in the great Gothic cathedrals of the period. In fact, her most recent book, co-edited with Brigitte Kurman-Schwarz, is entitled Investigations in Medieval Stained Glass: Medium, Methods, Expressions. And she is currently the President of the American Corpus Vitrearum, the body of scholars who study medieval stained glass. She was even more horrified than the rest of us by the fire that threatened the utter destruction of Notre-Dame a year ago—and even more relieved that so much of it, including its superb rose windows, somehow survived. Today, she’ll share some of her expertise on the history and current state of this storied structure and the plans to restore it to its former glory by 2024 when Paris is scheduled to host the Olympics. She promises intervals for discussion after each section of her presentation. . . and lots of wonderful images to look at.