Free Public Lecture: Alexandre Cabanel and The Birth of Venus July 15, 2007

In this lecture, Curator Lisa Small will recount the fascinating history of Alexandre Cabanel's famed painting, The Birth of Venus, and explore why it was one of the most scandalous and widely reproduced paintings of the nineteenth-century.

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