Art History Lecture, Oct. 20

Abigail Yoder, a graduate student in art history, will give a talk, "Imaginative Recreations: The Influence of Leonardo da Vinci on the Art of Odilon Redon," at 3:00 p.m., Saturday, October 20, in the Round Room, Ford Center for the Fine Arts, Knox College, Galesburg, Illinois. The lecture is free and open to the public.

Redon is a late-19th and early 20th-century French painter who worked in symbolism, a genre that rejected realism in favor of mystical, evocative techniques, while Da Vinci's works are generally classified as realistic, and strongly influenced by his studies in biology and engineering. The talk is the 2007 Art History Alumni Lecture, presented as part of Knox College's Homecoming Weekend.

Yoder completed her bachelor's degree at Knox in 2004, majoring in art history and minoring in anthropology-sociology. Currently studying at the University of Iowa, she received a master's degree this year, and is completing a doctoral degree in art history.

The talk is sponsored by the Janet Greig Post Lecture Fund.