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Brosseau Center for Learning: The Stars, Ourselves

December 17, 2016–January 8, 2017

Gallery 318, The Jack and Lavon Brosseau Center for Learning, Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas

Selections to support the December 30th Home for the Holidays Tours with Director Saralyn Reece Hardy.

Works of art

Frontispice, Filippo Morghen (1730–after 1807); Jean-Pierre-Louis-Laurent Hoüel (1735–1813) — Filippo Morghen (1730–after 1807); Jean-Pierre-Louis-Laurent Hoüel (1735–1813)

Frontispice, circa 1764–1772

Numero 1. Rappresenta un Selvaggio montato sopra un Serpente alato che combatte con una fiera somigliante ad un Porco Spino, Filippo Morghen (1730–after 1807); Jean-Pierre-Louis-Laurent Hoüel (1735–1813) — Filippo Morghen (1730–after 1807); Jean-Pierre-Louis-Laurent Hoüel (1735–1813)

Numero 1. Rappresenta un Selvaggio montato sopra un Serpente alato che combatte con una fiera somigliante ad un Porco Spino, circa 1764–1772

Numero 2. Una nuova macchina per fendere da Capo a Coda le fiere (A new machine in order to cleave from head to tail the wild beast), Filippo Morghen (1730–after 1807); Jean-Pierre-Louis-Laurent Hoüel (1735–1813) — Filippo Morghen (1730–after 1807); Jean-Pierre-Louis-Laurent Hoüel (1735–1813)

Numero 2. Una nuova macchina per fendere da Capo a Coda le fiere (A new machine in order to cleave from head to tail the wild beast), circa 1764–1772

Numero 3. Le Carrozze che si usano nella Luna e che vanno alla vela (The carriage that one uses on the moon that can also sail), Filippo Morghen (1730–after 1807); Jean-Pierre-Louis-Laurent Hoüel (1735–1813) — Filippo Morghen (1730–after 1807); Jean-Pierre-Louis-Laurent Hoüel (1735–1813)

Numero 3. Le Carrozze che si usano nella Luna e che vanno alla vela (The carriage that one uses on the moon that can also sail), circa 1764–1772

Numero 4. Maniera di navigare a forza di Mantici praticata in quel Globo (Method of shipping by means of a bellow as practiced on that planet), Filippo Morghen (1730–after 1807); Jean-Pierre-Louis-Laurent Hoüel (1735–1813) — Filippo Morghen (1730–after 1807); Jean-Pierre-Louis-Laurent Hoüel (1735–1813)

Numero 4. Maniera di navigare a forza di Mantici praticata in quel Globo (Method of shipping by means of a bellow as practiced on that planet), circa 1764–1772

Numero 5. Maniera di trasportare le merci sopra Zattere tirate da un Mantice (Method of transporting goods on rafts blown by a bellow), Filippo Morghen (1730–after 1807); Jean-Pierre-Louis-Laurent Hoüel (1735–1813) — Filippo Morghen (1730–after 1807); Jean-Pierre-Louis-Laurent Hoüel (1735–1813)

Numero 5. Maniera di trasportare le merci sopra Zattere tirate da un Mantice (Method of transporting goods on rafts blown by a bellow), circa 1764–1772

Numero 6. Zucca che serve per barca da Pescare (A pumpkin that serves as a boat for fishing), Filippo Morghen (1730–after 1807); Jean-Pierre-Louis-Laurent Hoüel (1735–1813) — Filippo Morghen (1730–after 1807); Jean-Pierre-Louis-Laurent Hoüel (1735–1813)

Numero 6. Zucca che serve per barca da Pescare (A pumpkin that serves as a boat for fishing), circa 1764–1772

Numero 7. Zucche che servono d'abitazioni per garantirsi dalle fiere (Pumpkins that serve as residences to protect themselves from wild beasts), Filippo Morghen (1730–after 1807); Jean-Pierre-Louis-Laurent Hoüel (1735–1813) — Filippo Morghen (1730–after 1807); Jean-Pierre-Louis-Laurent Hoüel (1735–1813)

Numero 7. Zucche che servono d'abitazioni per garantirsi dalle fiere (Pumpkins that serve as residences to protect themselves from wild beasts), circa 1764–1772

Numero 8. Barca che ha per vela le ali d'un grandissimo Uccello (A boat that has the wings of a huge bird for sailing), Filippo Morghen (1730–after 1807); Jean-Pierre-Louis-Laurent Hoüel (1735–1813) — Filippo Morghen (1730–after 1807); Jean-Pierre-Louis-Laurent Hoüel (1735–1813)

Numero 8. Barca che ha per vela le ali d'un grandissimo Uccello (A boat that has the wings of a huge bird for sailing), circa 1764–1772

Numero 9. Abitazione dentro l'aqua, e nuova maniera di chiamare l'Oche a Suon di Tamburo (A dwelling on the water and a new manner of calling the geese by the sound of a drum), Filippo Morghen (1730–after 1807); Jean-Pierre-Louis-Laurent Hoüel (1735–1813) — Filippo Morghen (1730–after 1807); Jean-Pierre-Louis-Laurent Hoüel (1735–1813)

Numero 9. Abitazione dentro l'aqua, e nuova maniera di chiamare l'Oche a Suon di Tamburo (A dwelling on the water and a new manner of calling the geese by the sound of a drum), circa 1764–1772

The Pleiades, Elihu Vedder (1836–1923) — Elihu Vedder (1836–1923)

The Pleiades, circa 1885–1887

“The children laughed at the way everyone’s hair stood on end. The stewardess explained that this was caused by the gravitational pull of the moon.”, Chesley K. Bonestell (1888–1986) — Chesley K. Bonestell (1888–1986)

“The children laughed at the way everyone’s hair stood on end. The stewardess explained that this was caused by the gravitational pull of the moon.”, 1950

Artificial Satellite, Chesley K. Bonestell (1888–1986) — Chesley K. Bonestell (1888–1986)

Artificial Satellite, circa 1949

Moonshot, Lowell Nesbitt (1933–1993) — Lowell Nesbitt (1933–1993)

Moonshot, 1969

Moonshot, Lowell Nesbitt (1933–1993) — Lowell Nesbitt (1933–1993)

Moonshot, 1969

Moonshot, Lowell Nesbitt (1933–1993) — Lowell Nesbitt (1933–1993)

Moonshot, 1969

presepio nativity scene — presepio nativity scene, circa 1770