Many visitors to Rome have a very limited knowledge of Caravaggio, or specific (mis)conceptions and expectations; they are also increasingly unfamiliar with the iconography of figurative art. This pair of lectures will take a fresh look at some of the painter’s best-known works (in Santa Maria del Popolo, the Borghese Gallery, and the ever-crowded San Luigi) but also the less familiar (mostly because they are relatively inaccessible) in the Boncompagni and Odescalchi collections, although they are all closely related. Are we as startled by them as our ancestors of 1600? And can we impress our current audiences with an appropriate view of these paintings, encompassing the power and propaganda embedded in them, as well as their extraordinary sensitivity to nature?
giovedi 15 marzo ore 18.00 Galleria Prencipe
giovedi 22 marzo ore 18.00 Galleria Prencipe
Frank Dabell is a graduate of Merton College, Oxford and a former Fellow of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. He has taught the history of Renaissance and Baroque art for Temple University Rome since 2003, and for Dartmouth College in 2016. Since 1984 he has published numerous articles and book reviews (Paragone, Arte Cristiana, The Burlington Magazine, The Times Literary Supplement, etc.). In 2016 he was one of the curators, with Antonio Paolucci, of the exhibition Piero della Francesca. Indagine su un mito (Forlì), and contributed to the exhibitions Melozzo da Forlì and Il primato della Toscana nelle Vite del Vasari (both 2011).
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