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POP-UP WEBINAR | “A Renaissance Christmas 4.0” with Dr. Rocky Ruggiero
December 23, 2024
1 hour
$25.00
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“Exclusive Webinars in April”
Presented by Dr. Rocky Ruggiero and special guests Dr. Laurinda Dixon, Dr. Peter Weller, and Jordan Ledy
Dates & Times:
Thursday, April 4, 11 & 25
2:00 – 3:00pm ET | 11:00am – 12:00pm PT |
7:00 – 8:00pm London
EXCLUSIVE WEBINARS | “Exclusive Webinars in April”
Each webinar will include a 45-minute lecture followed by 15-minutes of Q&A.
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EXCLUSIVE WEBINAR | “Prints for the People: How the printing press revolutionized Renaissance art and thought”
Presented by Dr. Laurinda Dixon
The invention of the printing press by Johannes Gutenberg in the mid-fifteenth century began an unprecedented technological revolution in the Western world. For the first time, books and works of art could be mass-produced, putting literacy and art ownership within the grasp of all people, not just wealthy elites. The unrestricted availability of information transcended national borders, threatening the power of political and religious authorities and accelerating the emergence of a middle class. European vernacular languages were finally standardized and written down, replacing Latin as the universal lingua franca.
By the year 1480, printing presses were active in 110 places all over Europe, and by 1500 they had produced more than 20 million copies. Political propaganda was easily and broadly disseminated, and individual books could assume the status of best-sellers. Among the reading populace, which now included nearly everybody, it became necessary to learn punctuation, spelling, and much to the dismay of students today, to justify one’s ideas by citing existing printed sources.
Printed “mass media” greatly changed the ways in which viewers perceived art. Suddenly, works of art were widely and cheaply accessible, both in their own right and as a means of enhancing books via illustrations. The earliest print artists were trained in other fields, usually goldsmithing, and their artistic technique can seem crude and awkward in retrospect. But several visionary pioneers and entrepreneurs stand out for their innovative skill in translating the old painterly elements -light, shadow, and line – into new paradigms of sight and perception. The printing press became so synonymous with this new enterprise that it lent its name to an entire branch of mass media, which we now call “the press.”
EXCLUSIVE WEBINAR | “LOVE, CORRUPTION, and PURSUIT of the OSCAR – Three Revolutionary Academy Nominated Italian Films From 1969/70”
Presented by Dr. Peter Weller and Jordan Ledy
The Second World War leveled a fascist, then partisan Italy. Using real locations, a film movement emerged, now called Neorealism. However, we might just call the movement Realism, as Italy’s film, in the country’s confused void in post-war ethic, was the first to jump forth into social narratives of self-search within an economic blitz of poverty and pulchritude. Liberation freed depiction of gender and politics; After neorealism, the 60s and 70s generated a hard look at individual moral and social liability. This webinar will explore the radical shifts in Italian cinema during the late 1960s through the lens of three provocative OSCAR nominated films: Luchino Visconti’s “The Damned,” Elio Petri’s “Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion,” and Bernardo Bertolucci’s “The Conformist.”
EXCLUSIVE WEBINAR | “Knockin’ on Heaven’s Doors – The Beautiful Doors of the Italian Renaissance”
Presented by Dr. Rocky Ruggiero
Sculptural doors were one of the highest expressions of beauty in the Renaissance. Artists such as Nicola Pisano, Andrea Pisano, Lorenzo Ghiberti, Donatello, Jacopo della Quercia, and Filarete all produced stunning examples of relief sculpture for the doors of some of Italy’s greatest churches. Join Dr. Rocky as he explores the landmark doors that defined the various moments of the Italian Renaissance.
