Christ Church’s Sunday Forum continues with a coffee and conversation with Page Knox, PhD who will discuss “Images of Christ in Art Throughout the Centuries” on Sunday Feb 19, 2023 at 11:15am.
The talk will be in Christ Church Parish Hall.
Knos will highlight the power of art in Christianity for the last two thousand years in painting, sculpture, and a wide variety of artistic media.
Evolving in tandem with the evolution of art, the images of Christ through the ages reflect the styles, techniques, and values of the artistic moments during which they were created. Looking at the development of the figure of Christ in art, one can see the progression of art movements over the centuries.
Follow Page Knox as she traces that development, beginning with depictions of Jesus in the early Christian period, during Roman persecution as well as the Old Testament’s prohibition of graven images. through the Byzantine Empire and the Renaissance, with artists including Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael and Michelangelo. Baroque artists such as Peter Paul Rubens explored the human side of Christ, with an emphasis on his suffering and passion. The Romantic movement signals an emotional aspect of Jesus and will conclude with images of Christ in the modern era, as seen in the work of surrealists such as Salvador Dali. One of the most powerful sculptures of Christ as Redeemer continues to tower over Rio de Janeiro as a symbol of resurrection and hope.
Page Knox is an adjunct professor in the Art History Department of Columbia University, where she received her Ph.D. in 2012.
She works in a variety of capacities at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, giving public gallery talks and lectures in special exhibitions as well as the permanent collection, teaching classes at the museum, and leading groups for Travel with the Met.
Knox is a contributing author for a recently released textbook on the History of Illustration. Knox also teaches summer courses at Columbia that focus on American Art and Trans-Atlantic Exchange during the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries.