Please Note: The program has a rescheduled date (originally August 3, 2026).
Art historian Noah Charney pieces together the mysteries hidden in religious art, exploring how certain paintings were designed as visual puzzles that draw in the viewer and reward careful decoding. He chooses Our Lady of the Dry Tree by Petrus Christus as an opening riddle packed with symbolic clues, then dives into Crivelli’s The Annunciation with Saint Emidius, bursting with political and theological references.
The session concludes with Velázquez’s layered kitchen scene Christ in the House of Martha and Mary, prompting questions like: Why a bowl of fish? What is the significance of the background image? One of the selected works even contains a hidden recipe ready for home cooks to try.
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