Threshold

Keith Christiansen

March 13, 2013

2 min. watch

This video is part of 82nd and Fifth, a series that invites curators from across the Museum to talk about an artwork that changed the way they see the world.

“It’s an expression that can be dead, unless we engage ourselves in it.”

Curator Keith Christiansen on Madonna and Child, a thirteenth-century painting by Berlinghiero.

Contributors

Keith Christiansen
John Pope-Hennessy Chairman, Department of European Paintings

Photography by Mark Morosse

Rights and Permissions:
Consortium, Edward Barbieri, Director, 'I sat down under his shadow' by Edward C Bairstow © Oxford University Press 1925. All rights reserved. Recorded 1998 on Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, Deux-Elles Limited, DXL827