Tour the Dulwich Picture Gallery, London

The Dulwich Picture Gallery, founded in 1817, houses over 600 paintings by many of the great "old Masters," including Canaletto, Poussin, Rembrandt, Rubens, and Van Dyck. It has two claims to fame: It is the oldest public gallery in England; and it houses the artwork that is known as the most stolen painting in the world -- Rembrandt's Jacob de Gheyn III. We will explore that painting (recovered four times) as well as other masterpieces of the collection from the 17th and 18th centuries.

Instructor Bio:

Dr. Caterina Y. Pierre is professor of art history at the City University of New York at Kingsborough Community College and visiting associate professor at the Pratt Institute. Dr. Pierre has taught about art and crime at CUNY Kingsborough, the Pratt Institute, and Sotheby’s Institute of Art. She is currently preparing a new book on cemetery sculpture as political art in the late nineteenth century, as well as a book on Ernest Durig, a forger of the sculptor Auguste Rodin. Link to Dr. Pierre’s book on open access: https://archive.org/details/pierregenius2010/page/n1/mode/2up Link to Dr. Pierre’s full faculty profile: https://www.kbcc.cuny.edu/facultyprofiles/caterinapierre.html"