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Dr. Kathryn Wysocki Gunsch on a Benin Relief Plaque

Past Event: Wednesday, Apr.21.2021

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Artist Unidentified, Relief plaque showing a dignitary with drum and two attendants striking gongs, c. 1530-1570, copper alloy (Robert Owen Lehman Collection, Courtesy Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)

Learn some new ideas about how to teach the brass plaques of the Edo Kingdom of Benin with Dr. Kathryn Wysocki Gunsch

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Dr. Kathryn Wysocki Gunsch

Dr. Kathryn Wysocki Gunsch is Teel Curator of African and Oceanic Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and author of “The Benin Plaques: A 16th Century Imperial Monument,” Oxford: Routledge, 2018.

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