Museum admission / free for members 

The Georgi Museum in Shushan, N.Y., is home to about two-dozen Old Master paintings, including several from the Italian Renaissance. Created between the mid-13th to the early 16th century, the Italian paintings represent a variety of subjects both religious and profane by some important (if now little-known) artists. This talk will explore these works, considering questions of attribution, provenance and original function, and make connections to related works in Hyde House. 

Dr. Christopher Daly is the Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Curatorial Fellow in the Robert Lehman Collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. He received his bachelors’ degree from SUNY New Paltz (2012), his master’s degree from Ohio University (2015), and his PhD from Johns Hopkins University (2023). A specialist in Italian Renaissance art, his research focuses on the painters and workshops of late 15th-century Tuscany, mainly in the cities of Florence and Lucca. Prior to his current post at The Met, he held positions at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore; and the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond. He is a native of South Glens Falls and has a long history with The Hyde, having visited since a child and interned at the museum throughout high school and college.