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Hood Museum: Colored Dust: The Search for Beautiful and Everlasting Pigments

Thu, May 07

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Hood Museum of Art

Art historian Rebekah Compton will present a lecture on the virtues and vices of pigments in 15th and 16th century Italy.

Hood Museum: Colored Dust: The Search for Beautiful and Everlasting Pigments
Hood Museum: Colored Dust: The Search for Beautiful and Everlasting Pigments

Time & Location

May 07, 2026, 7:00 PM – 7:05 PM

Hood Museum of Art, 6 E Wheelock St, Hanover, NH 03755, USA

About the event

Rebekah Compton, Associate Professor of Art History at College of Charleston, will present a lecture that dives into the virtues and vices of pigments in the 15th and 16th centuries in Italy, looking at the trade, circulation, and value of the sources of color. This talk is co-sponsored by the Hood Museum of Art and the Department of Art History Department at Dartmouth.

For more information, contact:

Art History


art.history@dartmouth.edu

Permanent URL: https://hoodmuseum.dartmouth.edu/events/event?event=80761

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