Public Programs

Paolo Veronese: The Petrobelli Altarpiece

October 4, 2009 – February 7, 2010

Programs are free to members or included with museum admission, unless noted. Thursdays are always FREE, and the museum is open until 9 PM on the third Thursday of each month.

DECEMBER

• Public Tour: Paolo Veronese
  Sunday, December 13, 2 PM
• Third Thursday
  Thursday, December 17, 5:30 – 9 PM
  6:30 PM Yoga in the Galleries
  * 7 PM Taste of Italy! collaboration with Central Market
  7 PM Book Club, Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia by Elizabeth Gilbert
  7:30 PM Tour, Teresita Fernández: Blind Landscape
• * In celebration of the Veronese exhibition, The Blanton has joined forces with Central Market to present a special wine tasting during December's Third Thursday. Join us for wine from northern Italy and light appetizers. Central Market is also offering a special cooking class of cuisine from the region at their cooking school on January 12. For more information on the class please call the Central Market Cooking School at (512) 206-1014.
• Public Tour: Paolo Veronese
  Sunday, December 27, 2 PM

JANUARY

• Artwork Of The Week: The Petrobelli Altarpiece.
  Thursday, January 7, 12:30 PM
  Join one of the Blanton's docents on a tour of the exhibition Paolo Veronese: The Petrobelli Altarpiece.
• Public Tour: Paolo Veronese
  Sunday, January 10, 2 PM
• Perspectives
  Thursday, January 14, 12:30 PM
  Jonathan Bober, Curator of Prints, Drawings, and European Paintings, discusses the exhibition Paolo Veronese: The Petrobelli Altarpiece.
• Public Tour: Paolo Veronese
  Sunday, January 17, 2 PM
• Perspectives
  Thursday, January 21, 12:30 PM
  Mirka Benes, Associate Professor of the History of Landscape Architecture, in the School of Architecture at UT, discusses the viewer's perception of architectural space and landscape in the paintings of Paolo Veronese.
• Third Thursday
  Thursday, January 21, 5:30-9 PM
  6:30 PM Yoga in the Galleries
  7 PM The Butler School of Music Early Music Ensemble performs using period instruments
  7 PM Book Club, The Song is You: A Novel by Arthur Phillips
  7:30 PM Tour: Art and Music
• Public Tour: Paolo Veronese
  Sunday, January 24, 2 PM
• Perspectives
  Thursday, January 28, 12:30 PM
  Douglas Biow, the Linward Shivers-Superior Oil Company Centennial Professor of Medieval and Renaissance Studies in UT's College of Liberal Arts, discusses courtly grace, self-presentation, and decorum (as well as the absence of it) in Renaissance Italy.
• Public Tour: Paolo Veronese
  Sunday, January 31, 2 PM

FEBRUARY

• Perspectives
  Thursday, February 4, 12:30 PM
  Ernest N. Kaulbach, Distinguished Teaching Professor in the Department of English presents his perspective on Paolo Veronese: The Petrobelli Altarpiece.

Support for education programs at The Blanton is provided by The Brown Foundation, Inc. Education Endowment.

The Blanton is supported by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.