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FREE WEBINAR | “Masterpieces from Siena in American Collections” with Dr. Rocky Ruggiero
February 4, 2025
1 hour
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“Exclusive Webinars in March”
Presented by Dr. Rocky Ruggiero and special guests Dr. Daniel Zolli, Dr. Meghan Callahan, and Dr. Paolo Alei
Dates & Times:
Thursday, March 6, 13, 20 & 27
2:00 – 3:00pm ET | 11:00am – 12:00pm PT |
7:00 – 8:00pm London
EXCLUSIVE WEBINARS | “Exclusive Webinars in March”
Each webinar will include a 45-minute lecture followed by 15-minutes of Q&A.
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EXCLUSIVE WEBINAR | “Donatello: Experimenter and Collaborator”
Presented by Dr. Daniel Zolli
Even in an age filled with versatile artists, Donatello (1386-1466) stands out for his uncommon range. Though best known for the outsize body of marble and bronze sculpture that he produced over a sixty-year career (his bronze David remains a standard introduction to fifteenth-century Italian sculpture), he also worked in wood, clay, wax, cloth, leather, rope, glass, rock crystal, stucco, sandstone, tufa, and alabaster – often using multiple materials in combination. These materials were transformed in myriad ways. They were chiselled, carved, scratched, raked, polished, burnished, cast, painted, varnished, glazed, gilded, silvered, damascened, and tempered with brick dust. To understand why Donatello worked the way he did, this webinar will discuss his workshop, his fiercely collaborative approach to facture, and the uncommon traffic between media and across professional boundaries that came with a life lived in crowded company. Focusing on five (and time permitting, six) sculptures from a twenty-year slice of Donatello’s career, we will consider how the most exciting, strange, and haunting aspects of his art were not the result of heroic individual effort but of group exploration and problem-solving.
EXCLUSIVE WEBINAR | “DAMER, THORNYCROFT, AND LEWIS: Three Women Sculptors in 18th and 19th century Britain”
Presented by Dr. Meghan Callahan
Women artists tended not to become sculptors, as the more physical work of sculpting was seen as “man’s work.” However, since the 16th century and into the 21st, women carved marble and designed bronzes.
This talk will cover the art of sculptors Anne Seymour Damer (1748–1828), Mary Thornycroft (1809-1895), and Edmonia Lewis (1844-1907). Damer and Thornycroft were English and were involved with the Royal Academy in London. Lewis was Black and Native American and lived and worked in the United States and Italy before moving to London where she died. All were inspired by Italian art and worked within the NeoClassical tradition. We will explore the challenges and successes of being a woman sculptor in 18th and 19th-century Britain.
EXCLUSIVE WEBINAR | “A Pilgrimage to Rome: Bernini’s Angelic Path to the Basilica of Saint Peter”
Presented by Dr. Paolo Alei
This lecture will virtually take you on a pilgrimage to the Basilica of Saint Peter in Rome as envisioned by Bernini in the 17th century. We will ideally walk on the Bridge of Castel Sant’Angelo and through Piazza San Pietro to reach the glorious Baldacchino, and finally the Cathedra Petri, instrument of preparation and wait for the end of time. Bernini conceived the whole pilgrimage route as a Theatrum Sacrum, a sacred theatrical path with an increasing angelic presence which literally turns into a theophany around the final destination—metaphoric vision of the New Jerusalem.
EXCLUSIVE WEBINAR | “At Home with the Borgia: Pope Alexander VI and the Borgia Vatican Apartments”
Presented by Dr. Rocky Ruggiero
More than a decade before Raphael decorated the apartments of Pope Julius II, the Perugian painter Pinturicchio frescoed the apartments of Pope Alexander VI (Rodrigo Borgia) one floor below. Five of the six rooms were decorated in a complex iconographic scheme that in many ways prefigured the program of Raphael’s Stanze. For a pope best known for his immorality, ferociousness and nepotism, the sophisticated imagery of the paintings combines both Christian and classical subjects and instead reveal a particularly enlightened patron who displayed discerning taste in employing one of Italy’s most celebrated painters to decorate his apartments.
