Chazen Calendar December 2016–January 2017 | Page 3

First Folio! The Book That Gave Us Shakespeare

Francesco de
Mura (Italian,
1696–1782),
The Visitation,
ca. 1752, oil on
canvas, 37 × 46 in.,
Cornell Fine Arts
Museum, gift of
George H. Sullivan
in memory of his
parents, acc. no.
1952.34

On tour from the Folger Shakespeare Library
November 3–December 11, 2016
Leslie and Johanna Garfield Galleries

UW–Madison is the Wisconsin host for First Folio! The Book that Gave
Us Shakespeare, on tour from the Folger Shakespeare Library. The Folger
in partnership with Cincinnati Museum Center and the American Library
Association, is touring a First Folio to all fifty states, Washington, DC, and
Table of Contents, Shakespeare First Folio, 1623.
Folger Shakespeare Library.

Puerto Rico in 2016. The Chazen Museum of Art and the UW–Madison
Libraries partnered to bring this rare book to Wisconsin.
The First Folio, published in 1623, is the first collected edition of
Shakespeare’s plays, many of which were not published during his lifetime.
Two of Shakespeare’s fellow actors compiled thirty-six of his plays to
preserve them for future generations.

Daumier Lithographs: Characters and Caricatures
December 23, 2016–February 19, 2017 | Leslie and Johanna Garfield Galleries

Drawn from the Chazen’s collection of nearly nine hundred prints by the great French
caricaturist Honoré Daumier, this exhibition follows the artist’s development as the
foremost satirist of his day. Daumier began his career during a short period of relaxed
censorship in France and took advantage of the opportunity to directly caricature King
Louis Philippe I. Daumier’s gleeful prints frequently portrayed the king as a pear, and
often as corrupt. By 1835, the king had reinstituted censorship of images and Daumier
turned his attention to his fellow Parisians: fads of the bourgeoisie, lawyers, and
feminists were all regular targets.
Honoré Daumier (French, 1808–1879), You have lost your case, it's true…but you must have so enjoyed hearing me plead it.
(Vous avez perdu votre procès, c'est vrai… mais vous avez du éprouver bien du plaisir à m'entendre plaider.), number 35 from
the series People of Justice (Les Gens de Justice), 1848, lithograph, 9 11 ⁄ 32 x 7 1 ⁄ 8 in., gift of Helen Wurdemann, 1976.66

In the Light of Naples: The
Art of Francesco de Mura
January 20–April 2, 2017 | Pleasant T. Rowland Galleries

In the Light of Naples: The Art of Francesco de Mura, is the
first ever retrospective of one of the greatest painters of the
Golden Age of Naples. The exhibition features two works from
the Chazen’s permanent collection and is curated by Arthur
Blumenthal, who, from 1968–1974, was the first curator of the
Elvehjem Art Center, now the Chazen Museum of Art.
In Naples, Francesco de Mura’s refined and elegant
compositions with their exquisite light and color, heralded
the late Baroque style called Rococo, while his later
classicist style led to the simplicity and sculptural quality of
Neoclassicism. In the Light of Naples reveals the power
of de Mura’s work through more than forty paintings and
drawings, including oil sketches of his great frescoes and
many of his key paintings. The exhibition features religious
and classical subjects, and portraits. The works are on loan
from thirty American and European museums and private
collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Art
Institute of Chicago, and the Museo di Capodimonte in Naples.