USD Magazine Summer 2019

Right: Taddeo Zuccaro, Design for a chapel, c. 1553, Pen and brown ink, brown wash, over black chalk, ©The Trustees of the British Museum

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he Christ: Life, Death and Resurrection exhibition promises to be one of the most critically valued exhibits in the history of our region. “The opportunity for University Galleries to collaborate with one of the world’s great institutions, the British Museum, on bringing this project to San Diego is an honor and a privilege,” says Director of University Galleries Derrick Cartwright, PhD. ”This exhibition challenges us to contemplate our Catholic identity, our intellectual tradition and our mission as a university. The exhibit is an object lesson in the merger of Catholic spirituality and humankind’s desire to express it.”

To learn more, go to sandiego.edu/galleries.

“The premise of this exhibition is

straightforward: examining how

three key episodes in Christ’s life

(his birth, death and resurrection)

were depicted in these prints and

drawings, which range in date

from the 1400s to the early 1800s.

Although the selection of works

from the British Museum’s collection

Above: Carlo Maratti, Adoration of the Shepherds, c. 1640- 1713, black chalk with brown wash and heightened with white, ©The Trustees of the British Museum

was specifically made for the Uni-

versity Galleries of the University

of San Diego, a private Catholic

university, it neither presumes

nor requires that the viewer has

religious faith of any kind.”

Hugo Chapman Keeper of Prints and Drawings at The British Museum

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