Two people are sitting together on a green couch, focusing on sheet music spread out on a table before them. The person on the left is pointing to the sheet music. The person on the right holds a violin. — Peter Sheppard Skærved (right) and Michael Alec Rose (left), courtesy of the artist.

An Evening Salon with Peter Sheppard Skærved

Join Grammy-nominated violinist Peter Sheppard Skærved; Rachel McGarry, Mia’s Elizabeth MacMillan Chair and Curator of European Art; and Max Bryant, Mia’s James Ford Bell Associate Curator of European Decorative Arts and Sculpture, for a salon-style evening of art and music to celebrate the conservation of an Italian Renaissance masterpiece.

Francesco Salviati’s monumental 1540s tapestry depicting the meeting of Dante and Virgil at the beginning of the Inferno returns to view at Mia following a meticulous restoration. The evening features a conversation and musical program that charts a course from 16th-century Italy to today, including a world premiere of a work composed specifically for this tapestry and gallery space. Composer Michael Alec Rose joins for a performance of this new work.

This event is free and open to the public.

View the tapestry in “Back from the Underworld: Mia’s Dante Tapestry Restored,” on view at Mia from July 11, 2026, through January 31, 2027.

_{Peter Sheppard Skærved (right) and Michael Alec Rose (left), courtesy of the artist.}