Climate change has brought renewed and urgent interest in the relationship between human behavior and the mass extinction of animal species and their habitats. Early modern Europeans, too, were preoccupied with extinction, and many works of art bear witness to their concerns. Focusing on Antonio Tempesta’s print “A Wolf Hunt, with a Dead Ram as Bait,” this talk examines the period’s various notions of extinction, while also drawing connections with contemporary thinking on the subject in museums and elsewhere. This talk is part of a series inspired by ReFrame, a museum-wide initiative to reimagine the function, role, and future of the university art museum. These talks examine difficult histories, foreground untold stories, and experiment with new approaches to the collections of the Harvard Art Museums, reflecting the concerns of our world today. TAKE A CLOSER LOOK: + Watch more talks which ReFrame the Harvard Art Museums’ collections:    • ReFraming The Collections at the Harv...  . + Antonio Tempesta, Italian, Published by Claes Jansz, Dutch, “A Wolf Hunt, with a Dead Ram as Bait,” 16th–17th century. Engraving. Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Eric A. von Raits in memory of Helen van C. de Peyster von Raits, M22312.22. https://hvrd.art/o/261043. + Jan van der Straet (also called Stradanus). “Wolf Hunt with Traps and Arquebus,” 1578 - 1580. Drawing. Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Purchase through the generosity of Melvin R. Seiden and Janine Luke and an anonymous donor in honor of Lisbet and Joseph Koerner, 1997.205. https://hvrd.art/o/292454. + Eadweard Muybridge, British, “Bison Charging” from series “Animal Locomotion,” 1887. Collotype. Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Purchase through the generosity of Melvin R. Seiden, P1982.355. https://hvrd.art/o/285113. SPEAKERS: + Sarah Mallory, graduate intern at the Harvard Art Museums and Ph.D. candidate in the Department of History of Art and Architecture, Harvard University; + Moderated by Lynette Roth, Daimler Curator of the Busch Reisinger Museum and Head of the Division of Modern and Contemporary Art, Harvard Art Museums. --- Recorded March 23, 2021. © President and Fellows of Harvard College. For questions related to permission for commercial use of this video, please contact the Department of Digital Imaging and Visual Resources at am_divr@harvard.edu.