Join Getty drawings curator Stephanie Schrader to explore the themes of the exhibition and see how artists of the 16th–19th centuries used their creative powers to shape ideas about good and bad behavior.
Curator's Tour: Virtue and Vice
Tour
Design for the Central Section of The Mirror of Virtue, about 1594, Cornelis Ketel. Pen and dark-brown ink with brush and brown wash over black chalk, heightened with white opaque watercolor. Getty Museum, 2009.65
About
Times
Select Tuesdays
2pm
Speaker Bios
Stephanie Schrader
Curator
Stephanie received her BA from Occidental College and her MA from Oberlin College before coming to the Department of Drawings as a graduate intern in 1993. In 1996, she entered the PhD program at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where she wrote her dissertation on the 16th-century Netherlandish artist Jan Gossaert. Stephanie returned to the Getty Museum in 2001 to look after Dutch and Flemish drawings. She has curated dozens of exhibitions from the permanent collection, and her international loan shows convey a keen interest in cross-cultural exchange. These include exhibitions that explore Maria Sibylla Merian’s depictions of the flora and fauna in Suriname, Jan Gossaert’s depictions of mythological and ancient subjects at the Burgundian court, Peter Paul Rubens’s compelling renditions of Korean and Chinese costume, and Rembrandt van Rijn’s copies after Mughal paintings in the global city of Amsterdam.
Know Before You Go
Capacity
20
First-come, first-served
Duration
45 minutes
How to join
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What to expect
Our guides lead interactive tours that are different each time. While they share their unique perspective and knowledge about the collections and exhibitions, we encourage you to make the tour your own by sharing observations and asking questions. We want to hear what you think!
This tour is predominantly indoors, with brief moments outside. There are a few specific stops for active engagement with individual artworks. Although benches are available in many galleries, seating may or may not be available depending on the route chosen by your guide.
Accessibility
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