POP-UP WEBINAR | “Michelangelo Goes to Savannah: Highlights of ‘Michelangelo’s Women: Images of Female Power and Divinity from the Casa Buonarroti’” 
Presented by Dr. Gary Radke
with Additional Commentary by Dr. Rocky Ruggiero

Join guest curator Gary Radke for this pop-up webinar about an unprecedented special exhibition that he has organized at the Telfair Museums in Savannah, Georgia.  The show features drawings, letters, and poetry directly from Michelangelo’s hand as well as other historic objects from the collection of the artist’s family in Florence. Learn about Michelangelo’s visual and literary representations of women and meet two actual women who are featured in the exhibition:the artist’s close friend and muse Vittoria Colonna (1492-1547) and Rosina Vendramin (1814-1856), who preserved Michelangelo’s works for posterity.

The webinar will include a 45-minute lecture followed by 15-minutes of Q&A.

Please note:

• Your participation is confirmed once you have purchased your ticket. You will receive the Zoom Link to join the presentation circa 30 minutes before the start time.
• VIDEO RECORDING of the webinar will be available for unlimited streaming at your convenience for 7 days after the event.

Dr. Gary M. Radke is Professor Emeritus of Art History at Syracuse University, where he directed the Florence Graduate Program in Renaissance Art and was named Meredith Professor for Teaching Excellence. His publications on Italian medieval and Renaissance art range from a book on the thirteenth-century papal palace in Viterbo to essays on the patronage of nuns in Renaissance Venice. He curated major loan exhibitions throughout the United States on Italian Renaissance sculptors Lorenzo Ghiberti, Luca della Robbia, Andrea del Verrocchio, Michelangelo, and Leonardo da Vinci. His widely distributed college textbook on Italian Renaissance art, co-authored with John Paoletti, appeared in four editions and in Spanish and Chinese translations. Gary is past president of the Italian Art Society and a fellow of the American Academy in Rome.

In retirement Professor Radke and his wife Nancy have settled into an historic home in Savannah, Georgia, where Gary is now a trustee of the Historic Savannah Foundation and chair of its Architectural Review Committee. He continues to write scholarly articles and enjoys lecturing in Italy for various cultural groups.