Art historian Debra Mancoff will deliver a public lecture at 5:30 p.m. Feb. 9 at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln’s Sheldon Museum of Art.

The talk, “Framing the Salon in Victorian Society,” is free and open to the public. She will explore the cultural context of hanging artworks in the style of Victorian-era salons.

Mancoff’s lecture coincides with a salon-style installation in a Sheldon permanent collection gallery. A time-lapse video of the museum’s recreation of a 19th-century salon is available at http://go.unl.edu/salon-style.

Author of more than 20 books, Mancoff received her doctorate in art history at Northwestern University and is a scholar in residence at the Newberry Library in Chicago. She is a frequent lecturer on Victorian art and fashion, pre-Raphelite painting, and the Impressionists.