

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Virtual Seminar on Ester Before Ahasuerus by Artemisia Gentileschi
- **Event Start and End Date**: Wed, 04 Mar, 2026 at 11:00 pm
- **Event Description**: In conjunction with our upcoming March 8th concert, Stradella’s Ester, Liberatrice Del Popolo Ebreo, and in celebration of Women's History Month and Purim, join us on Zoom on March 4th at 6pm ET for a virtual seminar about the work of celebrated painter Artemisia Gentileschi, who famously painted one of the most celebrated depictions of the Purim story.

In a lively Zoom discussion of Artemisia Gentileschi’s painting Ester Before Ahasuerus, currently on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, our speakers will explore the piece from three angles: Italian history, art history, and theatrical narrative. We are pleased to welcome NYU professor and scholar of Renaissance Theater and Rhetoric Dr. Eugenio Refini and art historian and leading Gentileschi authority Dr. Sheila Barker, who will join award-winning film director, soprano, and writer Ms. Jessica Gould in conversation.

These three innovative thinkers will explore the compelling forces of empowerment, theater, and appropriation that come to a head in one masterpiece by not only the greatest female painter of the baroque era, but one of the greatest painters of European history.

This program is entirely virtual.

Registration for this Zoom program is pay-what-you-wish. The following are suggested amounts for each ticket type:
Adults $12
Seniors $10
Students $8

About the Speakers:

Sheila Barker is the director of the Medici Archive Project’s recently inaugurated Center for the History of Women in Renaissance Archives, whose mission is to use technology to increase access to original documentation on early women’s lives. Her archival research, which often focuses on women of the 16th and 17th centuries, straddles both the history of medicine and the history of art. She has made archival discoveries regarding many pioneering women artists, including Artemisia Gentileschi, Giovanna Garzoni, Teresa Vitelli, Plautilla Nelli, Lucrezia Quistelli, and Irene Parenti Duclos. Her publications on Artemisia Gentileschi alone include: Artemisia Gentileschi in the Illuminating Women Artists Series; Lives of Artemisia Gentileschi; Artemisia Gentileschi in a Changing Light; numerous articles, catalog entries, and book chapters; and a forthcoming monograph on the artist for the Prado Museum’s new Creadores series. She is currently at work on an exhibition entitled Women Artists at the Medici Court: the Flowering of Feminism.

Jessica Gould's category-defying artistic output includes film direction, curation, writing, and performance. As founder and artistic director of Salon Sanctuary Concerts, she has been praised as “one of New York’s great impresarios” (MusicWeb International), and her programming as “impeccably curated” (Time Out New York). Her original programs viewing history through the prism of music have earned the partnership of Carnegie Hall, the Sorbonne, Palazzo Grimani (Venice), the Teatro all’Antica di Sabbioneta, Villa La Pietra (Florence), the American Philosophical Society, Temple Emanu El, and the Museum of Jewish Heritage, among others. The over 90 global film festival awards for Gould’s first film, Babylon: Ghetto, Renaissance, and Modern Oblivion (2020), include Best International Film (Asti), Best Soundtrack (Parma), and Best Short Documentary (Tokyo). An award-winning writer (Best Original Script, London International Film Festival), her program notes have engaged audiences from Los Angeles to Venice, and her essays have been read in journals from San Francisco to Dublin. Her singing has been noted for “dramatic intensity that honored the texts” (The New York Times), “unapologetic openheartedness” (Voix des Arts), and “electrifying” (MusicWeb International).

Eugenio Refini's research focuses on reception, translation, and adaptation, explored at the intersections of rhetoric, poetics, drama, music, and voice studies. His first monograph, Per via d’annotationi (Lucca 2009), examines the Renaissance reception of Horace’s Art of Poetry and its role in early modern literary theory. His second book, The Vernacular Aristotle (Cambridge 2020), investigates vernacular translations of Aristotle to reassess translation as a form of cultural reception. Related questions inform his work on the reception of the sublime across rhetoric, poetics, and music. His third monograph, Staging the Soul (Oxford 2023), explores allegorical drama as a pedagogical and spiritual practice in seventeenth-century Italy, with particular attention to female orphans in Venetian hospitals. He is currently completing Ariadne’s Echo, a study of Ariadne’s lament in music and poetry from 1600 to 1900. Prior to joining NYU, Refini taught at Johns Hopkins University and held fellowships at Harvard University's Villa I Tatti, The University of Warwick, and other major research institutions, including the NEH Rome Prize at the American Academy in Rome.

About the Museum at Eldridge Street:
The Museum at Eldridge Street is housed in the Eldridge Street Synagogue, a magnificent National Historic Landmark that has been meticulously restored. Opened in 1887, the synagogue is the first great house of worship built in America by Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe. Today, it is the only remaining marker of the great wave of Jewish migration to the Lower East Side that is open to a broad public who wishes to visit Jewish New York. Exhibits, tours, public programs, and education initiatives tell the story of Jewish immigrant life, explore architecture and historic preservation, inspire reflection on cultural continuity, and foster collaboration and exchange between people of all faiths, heritages, and interests.
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- **Interested Audience**: 
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## Ticket Details

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## Event venue details

- **city**: New York, New York
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