Empathy (Cantor Arts Center)

   Empathy, that human capacity to understand or feel what another person is feeling or experiencing, is the subject of a new exhibit at Stanford University.  Mounted in conjunction with a course taught by Jane Shaw, professor of religious studies, the exhibition contains works of art from a variety of esthetic movements and traditions, and, as the Cantor Art Center's website notes, traces the meaning and practice of empathy through artistic representations of Buddhist compassion, Christianity's commandment to love our neighbor, Enlightenment moral philosophy, and Civil-Rights-era photography.  

  The eighteen works on display include Hieronymous Bosch's Last Judgment (above), paintings based on the story of the Prodigal Son, and more.

  This exhibition can be found in the Robert Mondavi Family Gallery, Cantor Center for the Arts, Stanford University, Palo Alto.  It runs through January 25, 2016.  For more information, visit the Center's website by clicking here.

Image source:  Cantor Center for the Arts, Stanford University
Information:  https://museum.stanford.edu/view/exhibition_sched_new.html