Accademia Gallery of Florence
'Temple of the Arts'
Online Lecture
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Lecturer: Kate Bolton-Porciatti
Date: Saturday 7 September, 2024
Duration: 1 hour
Start Time: 4.00pm AEST | 3.30pm SA | 2.00pm WA | 6.00pm NZST
Price: $25 AUD
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Overview
The Accademia Gallery in Florence is most famous for Michelangelo’s David and his unfinished Prisoners, but it also showcases paintings by some of the great Italian masters – Botticelli, Ghirlandaio, Andrea del Sarto, and Pontormo.
Additionally, this ‘temple of the arts’ boasts a precious collection of musical instruments and paintings that shed light on the Medici’s patronage of music – one of their final artistic flourishes before the dynasty died out in 1743.
Join Kate Bolton-Porciatti for an immersion in these stunning works, as well as an intriguing consideration of how the great Florentine tradition of sculpture continued after Michelangelo - via a careful consideration of Giambologna’s monumental Rape of the Sabine Woman, the captivating works of Lorenzo Bartolini, and numerous marble musical instruments. The atmospheric ‘Gipsoteca’ is also considered, whose trove of plaster casts of famous Florentine statues neatly encapsulates the sculpture making process.
Your Expert lecturer
Kate Bolton-Porciatti (MPhil.) is a professor of Italian cultural history at the Istituto Lorenzo de’Medici in Florence, where she teaches BA and MA courses in the humanities. She also lectures regularly at the British Institute, Florence, and at the Chigiana Academy in Siena. Before moving to Italy permanently in 2005, she was a senior producer and broadcaster for BBC Arts & Classical Music in London and has won prestigious Jerusalem and Sony Awards for her programs. She has published extensively as an academic, a critic and a journalist. Her MPhil thesis set the music of early 15th-century Florence in its social and cultural context.
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