{"id":9950,"date":"2016-08-12T19:00:03","date_gmt":"2016-08-12T19:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.missouri.edu\/newsnotes\/?p=9950"},"modified":"2016-08-12T20:55:05","modified_gmt":"2016-08-12T20:55:05","slug":"painting-from-mu-art-museum-to-be-installed-in-ellis-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.missouri.edu\/newsnotes\/2016\/08\/12\/painting-from-mu-art-museum-to-be-installed-in-ellis-library\/","title":{"rendered":"Painting from MU Art Museum Installed in Ellis Library"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t<a href=\"http:\/\/library.missouri.edu\/newsnotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2016\/08\/Ligare-Painting.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ligare Painting\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-9964\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/library.missouri.edu\/newsnotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2016\/08\/Ligare-Painting-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" \/><\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tA new painting from the MU Museum of Art and Archaeology was installed in the Grand Reading Room on August 11. Information about the painting is below.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tDavid Ligare (American, b. 1945)<br \/>\n\t<em>Dido in Resolve, <\/em>1989<br \/>\n\tOil on canvas (89.6)<br \/>\n\tMU Museum of Art and Archaeology<br \/>\n\tGift of the MU Student Fee Capital Improvements Committee\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tDavid Ligare is a California based artist who was commissioned to create a contemporary classical painting for the Museum of Art and Archaeology to serve as a link between the ancient and modern objects in the Museum&rsquo;s collection.&nbsp; Ligare&rsquo;s painting represents an episode from the <em>Aeneid <\/em>by the Roman author Vergil.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tAccording to the story, Dido, Queen of the North African coastal city of Carthage, met the Trojan prince Aeneas when he stopped in Carthage after the end of the Trojan War.&nbsp; Aeneas fell in love with the queen, and the two spent the following winter together.&nbsp; Later, Mercury, the messenger of the gods, visited Aeneas and urged him to travel to Italy to found a new Troy (which later became the Roman Empire).&nbsp; Choosing not to disobey the gods, Aeneas departed and abandoned Dido.&nbsp; Distraught over her lost love, the queen built an enormous pyre to burn all of Aeneas&rsquo; leftover possessions.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tLigare pictures Dido in her palace as Aeneas&rsquo; ships depart Carthage.&nbsp; As smoke from the pyre rises in the background, the queen resolves to end her life. Dido eventually threw her own body onto the pyre, cursing Aeneas as she committed suicide.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tLigare makes visual references to archaeological objects in the painting, representing, for example, a classical lamp similar to those found in the Museum&rsquo;s collection.&nbsp; The artist also shows Dido seated in profile, a position that recalls the traditional poses of deceased figures in ancient Greek funerary monuments.&nbsp; Ligare&rsquo;s frame, moreover, resembles the structures that surround these ancient monuments. These funerary references allow the artist to foreshadow Dido&rsquo;s death with the formal elements of the painting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new painting from the MU Museum of Art and Archaeology was installed in the Grand Reading Room on August 11. Information about the painting is below. David Ligare (American, b. 1945) Dido in Resolve, 1989 Oil on canvas (89.6)<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.missouri.edu\/newsnotes\/2016\/08\/12\/painting-from-mu-art-museum-to-be-installed-in-ellis-library\/\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Painting from MU Art Museum Installed in Ellis Library<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\"> &#8250;<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-building-and-space-issues"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-25 23:00:43","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.missouri.edu\/newsnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.missouri.edu\/newsnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.missouri.edu\/newsnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.missouri.edu\/newsnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.missouri.edu\/newsnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9950"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/library.missouri.edu\/newsnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9965,"href":"https:\/\/library.missouri.edu\/newsnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9950\/revisions\/9965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.missouri.edu\/newsnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.missouri.edu\/newsnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.missouri.edu\/newsnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}