Professor Geraldine Johnson lectures on women patrons of Renaissance and Baroque Europe

In December, Professor Geraldine Johnson gave an invited lecture on women patrons in Renaissance and Baroque Europe to an online audience of nearly 5,000 at an event organised by Beijing's Paragon Book Gallery.

The talk grew out of Professor Johnson's ongoing teaching and research on gender and the visual arts from the late Medieval period to the present day. 

Professor Johnson, Tutor in History of Art at Christ Church, lectured on women who were patrons of visual art during the European Renaissance and Baroque period, exploring how these women commissioned works, how female patrons differed from male patrons, and what unique influences they had on artworks.

Founded in 1942 in Shanghai by Jewish refugees fleeing Nazi persecution, Paragon Book Gallery initially introduced European classics to the Chinese market.

The book store later expanded to the USA and several Chinese locations, with the aim of expanding the global circulation of printed material on art, literature, philosophy, history, human geography, and religion.