New Hampshire Art Association News

How to Look At and Understand the Old Art Masters

The New Hampshire Art Association is pleased to announce that Dr. Andrew Laurie Stangel, Professor of Art History at the University of New Hampshire will be giving an illustrated lecture on some of the major aspects of symbolism in the art of the Western world. He will explore the essential themes of Western art from the end of the Middles Ages through the Renaissance to the present day. Artists such as Giotto, Michelangelo, and Raphael are among some of the great artists whose works have greatly enlarged our visual vocabulary.

The lecture will take place at the Portsmouth Public Library on June 16, 2009 starting at 6:30 PM. There is no admission charge and the lecture is open to the general public. For more information, call the New Hampshire Art Association at 603-431-4230.

Dr. Andrew Stangel graduated Phi Beta Kappa from UCLA and completed his graduate study in history and civilization at the Universities of Wisconsin and California. A recipient of numerous academic honors and distinguished teaching awards, he has lectured at colleges, universities, and art museums and galleries, in the United States and Europe. Stangel also created and directed the Art History Tours program for the United States Armed Forces in Europe. While living abroad, Stangel photographed the collections of every major art museum and gallery in Europe, public and private, as well as at historical sites and archaeological zones throughout Europe and the Near East. He has also photographed the great collections on exhibition in the United States, and has a comprehensive resource collection of more than 100,000 art-historical slides, which he uses to illustrate his lectures.