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Join Professor Lisa Pon for this seminar
examining Raphael's collaborations in painting and many other media, re-evaluating period and current attitudes towards originality, authorship, artistic practice and value. This research draws from Pon’s ne...
Join Professor Timothy McCall for this lecture on the camera di Griselda at Roccabianca castle, near Parma, exploring how the room’s fresco cycle works within a semi‑public space. The talk will examine how visitors moved through and interpreted the s...
Join Prof. Sapir for this talk exploring his project 'Postwar Renaissance: Studying, Exhibiting, Teaching and Appropriating Early Modern European Art in Four "New Nations", 1950-1990', which investigates the reception of Renaissance and Baroque art i...
Join Dr. Machtelt Israëls for a talk exploring how a newly discovered late fifteenth-century inventory reveals the evolving function of the studioli and chapels in the Palazzo Ducale of Urbino.
This Round Table brings together a group of world-leading scholars on Parmigianino to discuss their latest projects and research on the artist, one of the most celebrated of sixteenth-century Italy.
This talk will trace the diverse artistic connections created and sustained between Florence and the Holy Roman Empire’s ruling elites, on the occasion of a marriage between the Habsburg and Medici families.
This talk takes the castle of Issogne (Valle d’Aosta, Italy) and its distinctive mural decorations as the lens through which to look at the arts in the Western Alps around 1500.
In 2019-2020, the Louvre organized an exhibition to celebrate the 500-year anniversary of the death of Leonardo da Vinci in France, of particular importance for the museum, which holds the largest collection in the world of da Vinci’s paintings, as w...
