As part of the McMullen Museum’s 2017 spring opening celebration of the exhibition, “Rafael Soriano: The Artist as Mystic,” curator and Boston College Professor Elizabeth Thompson Goizueta introduces the show through historical context and details from the artist’s personal life and career.
This lecture took place at the McMullen on January 29, 2017, and a recording can be accessed via this link: http://bit.ly/2ko5aHW. Please be sure to update Adobe Flash on your device to access the software’s full interactive features. For a recording without interactive features, please click on the following link: http://bit.ly/2jVfNDi.
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The beautifully illuminated Beauvais Missal—created in the thirteenth century and dismembered in the twentieth—is one of the best-known victims of mid-twentieth-century American “biblioclasm,” serving as a perfect example of just how great a loss is incurred when a codex is dismembered and its leaves scattered. It also serves as a hopeful case study of the possibilities offered by recent developments in imaging and metadata standards, platforms, and interoperability. 
In this lecture, given at the Preview Opening, Director of the McMullen Museum Nancy Netzer discusses the history of the McMullen Museum of Art at Boston Collection and the many decisions that went into planning and building its new facility at 2101 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA 02135.