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The Group for Early Modern Studies and the Museum of Art present the following lectures:

• "'Declaratio and Delectatio': The Functions of Altarpieces in Renaissance Europe," by  Pia Cuneo, professor of art history. 
• "Style and Influence: Queen Isabel's Taste and Late 15th-Century Spanish Art," by Therese Martin, professor of art history.

Cuneo specializes in the art of the Northern Renaissance. Her lecture will address the forms and functions of 15th- and 16th-century European altarpieces, and will thus provide a comparative context for Fernando Gallego's retablo.

Martin specializes in the art and architecture of medieval Spain. Her lecture will address the role Isabel of Castile played as arbiter of taste; the queen's patronage of Hispano-Flemish works contributed to the dominance of this style in 15th-century Castilian paintings, including the retablo of Ciudad Rodrigo.