Join us to celebrate the opening of The Tudors: Art and Majesty in Renaissance England. Enjoy curator presentations and conversation.
About the speakers
Martin Chapman is curator in charge of European decorative arts and sculpture at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. He has organized numerous exhibitions at the Legion of Honor, including Marie-Antoinette and the Petit Trianon at Versailles (2007 - 2008), Houghton Hall: Portrait of an English Country House (2014 - 2015), and East Meets West: Jewels of the Maharajas from The Al Thani Collection (2018 - 2019).
Thomas Wu is former assistant curator of European decorative arts and sculpture at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. He holds a master’s in history of art from the Courtauld Institute of Art.
Elizabeth Cleland is curator of European sculpture and decorative art at The Met. She is responsible for post-medieval European textiles, curated Relative Values: The Cost of Art in the Northern Renaissance (2017 - 2022), and co-curated Grand Design: Pieter Coecke van Aelst and Renaissance Tapestry (2014 - 2015) and The Tudors: Art and Majesty in Renaissance England (2022 - 2023). She studied at the Courtauld Institute of Art, receiving her MA and PhD as a British Academy scholar.
Adam Eaker is associate curator of European paintings. He studied art history at Yale University and Columbia University, where he received his PhD in 2016. He is a specialist in Northern European and British painting of the 16th through the 18th century. As a guest curator at the Frick Collection, he co-curated Van Dyck: The Anatomy of Portraiture (2016). At The Met, he curated In Praise of Painting: Dutch Masterpieces at The Met as well as The Tudors: Art and Majesty in Renaissance England.
Learn more about the exhibition: www.famsf.org/exhibitions/tudors
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