Iconography: Keepers of Secrets

In this final lecture in his series on iconography, art historian Noah Charney focuses attention on works that reveal their secrets only to the initiated. He traces the hidden messages, social satire, and political subtext embedded in The Ambassadors by Hans Holbein the Younger, Mr. and Mrs. Andrews by Thomas Gainsborough, and Giovanni Bellini’s enigmatic Sacred Allegory. (World Art History Certificate elective, 1/2 credit)