EXCLUSIVE WEBINAR | "Unoriginal Leonardo: Reimagining the Origins of His Genius" with Dr. Gary Radke
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EXCLUSIVE WEBINAR
Unoriginal Leonardo: Reimagining the Origins of His Genius
Presented by Dr. Gary Radke
With Additional Commentary by Dr. Rocky Ruggiero

Date & Time:
Thursday, October 28, 2021
11:30am – 12:30pm ET | 8:30 – 9:30am PT | 4:30 – 5:30pm London

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EXCLUSIVE WEBINAR | “Unoriginal Leonardo: Reimagining the Origins of His Genius”
Presented by Dr. Gary Radke
With Additional Commentary by Dr. Rocky Ruggiero

Join this exclusive webinar to think outside the box about Leonardo da Vinci’s creativity. Open your mind to considering such unsettling questions as: What if Leonardo wasn’t as original as we usually think he was? What if he learned more from his predecessors and contemporaries than we thought? What if he didn’t even apprentice with Andrea del Verrocchio but was hired as an assistant with skills already honed in a rival workshop? What if we dispense with all the legends and simply look at what Leonardo’s earliest paintings, drawings, and scant written documentation allow us to imagine are the true origins of his genius?

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.

Lecturer

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.

Duration
1 hour
Tour Type
Exclusive Webinar

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