Contemplative imagination
3 February 2002 – 17 August 2003
Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Queen's University
Queen's University
University Avenue at Queen's Crescent
Kingston, ON K7L 3N6
Canada
Queen's University
University Avenue at Queen's Crescent
Kingston, ON K7L 3N6
Canada
Curator
Curator
Museum information
In the Bader Gallery of the Art Centre, consisting mainly of Dutch and Flemish paintings.
From the museum website
These European paintings selected from the permanent collection show seventeenth-century artists directing their viewers to important concepts or ideals. For these allegories, histories and landscapes, artists drew on reality but also on the imagination, in order to communicate things that one did not see: products of the mind. Their wide range of subject matter points towards an open and universal vision, paralleling the development of the sciences in this age.