Monday, November 10, 3 – 3:30pm
Left: Giorgio de Chirico. Gladiators in the Arena (detail), c. 1925. The Barnes Foundation, BF834. © 2025 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / SIAE, Rome. Right: End of Combat (detail), c. 1925. The Barnes Foundation, BF835. © 2025 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / SIAE, Rome
Free with admission
About the Talk
Nina Huang, a master’s student in the history of art at the University of Pennsylvania, leads an in-depth discussion about Giorgio de Chirico’s Gladiators in the Arena and End of Combat. The talk takes place on the second floor in Room 14.
Deep Dives are 30-minute discussions held in the Barnes galleries presented in partnership with the University of Pennsylvania’s history of art graduate program. Deep Dive talks provide new interpretative approaches and intensive focus on individual works in the collection or current exhibition.
Giorgio de Chirico. Gladiators in the Arena, c. 1925. The Barnes Foundation, BF834. © 2025 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / SIAE, Rome
End of Combat, c. 1925. The Barnes Foundation, BF835. © 2025 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / SIAE, Rome
Speaker
Nina Huang
Huang is a second-year MA student in the History of Art Department at the University of Pennsylvania. She specializes in modern and contemporary art, focusing on materiality, embodiment, and memory in photography and printmaking. Nina received a BFA in studio art (printmaking concentration) and art history from Washington University in St. Louis.
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