{"id":7961,"date":"2026-02-20T09:56:46","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T14:56:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ramapo.edu\/berriecenter\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=7961"},"modified":"2026-02-20T13:00:01","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T18:00:01","slug":"art-history-talk-the-ballad-of-miss-fortune","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/www.ramapo.edu\/berriecenter\/event\/art-history-talk-the-ballad-of-miss-fortune\/","title":{"rendered":"Art History Talk &#8211; The Ballad of Miss Fortune"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Please join us in the Berrie Center Caf\u00e9 at 11:30 for a special talk by Art Historian Maria Loh in which<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0she bridges renaissance imagery and notions of misogyny.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>This event is held in conjunction with\u00a0<em>GODDESSES 3.0<\/em>, on view in the Kresge and Pascal Galleries February 25 &#8211; April 10. More information on <em>GODDESSES 3.0\u00a0<\/em>can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ramapo.edu\/berriecenter\/art-galleries\/kresge-pascal\/goddesses-3-0\/\">here<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p><strong>ABSTRACT<\/strong><\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>Kairos, Occasio, and Fortuna are complex facets of the same goddess of luck, but at a certain moment in time a troubling, schizophrenic iconography came into being, which cast Lady Luck as a distinctively female force, both a capricious agent controlling the Wheel of Fortune and also as a body that could be either violently seized or wildly adored. This lecture will explore the uneasy gendering of Fortuna in some early modern images such as an engraving by Marcantonio Raimondi in the Metropolitan Museum that bears the descriptive title\u00a0<em>A Naked Man Holding Fortune by the Hair and Whipping Her<\/em>. Rather than simply cancelling an image as such, I would like to take the opportunity to reflect upon the ideological work that such artworks accomplished in their own time and to push us to think about how we can and must make sense of them as twenty-first-century viewers.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong><span lang=\"EN-GB\">ABOUT THE SPEAKER<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Maria H. Loh is Professor of Art History at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton<\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\">.\u00a0Previously, she taught at CUNY Hunter College for six years and\u00a0at University College London for over a decade. She is\u00a0a contributor to\u00a0<i>Art in America<\/i>\u00a0and\u00a0the author of three books\u2014<i>Titian Remade. Repetition and the Transformation of Early Modern Italian Art<\/i>\u00a0(2007);\u00a0<i>Still Lives. Death, Desire, and the Portrait of the Old Master<\/i>\u00a0(2015); and\u00a0<i>Titian\u2019s Touch. Art, Magic, &amp; Philosophy<\/i>\u00a0(2019). She has also written on: horror and\u00a0\u201cspecial affect\u201d in early modern painting and sculpture;\u00a0rainbow imagery in Stuart England;\u00a0melancholia and the Renaissance in Ottocento Italy; remakes in Chinese cinema; repetition in Hitchcock\u2019s\u00a0<i>Vertigo<\/i>; seriality and Sherrie Levine; and the \u201copen work\u201d of Jeff Wall. Her forthcoming book\u2014<i>Liquid Sky<\/i>\u2014will be written for a general audience.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Image: Maria Loh, courtesy of the Institute for Advanced Study.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Please join us in the Berrie Center Caf\u00e9 at 11:30 for a special talk by Art Historian Maria Loh in which\u00a0she bridges renaissance imagery and notions of misogyny. 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