The Memory of Ingenious Things: Late Renaissance Altarpieces by Giovanni Battista Naldini and Bernardino Poccetti at Santa Maria del Carmine in Florence

Time: Oct. 26, 2018, 2 p.m. - 3:15 p.m.

Location: Peter Graham Scholarly Commons, 114 Bird Library

Douglas Dow (Kansas State University)

Dow, a specialist in the history of Italian Renaissance, focuses on the religious art of the late sixteenth century in Florence—a period long neglected in scholarship, mostly due to prejudices against Counter-Reformation Italian painting and the fact that it falls between the traditional (and problematic) periods of the so-called High Renaissance and the Baroque. In this talk Dow explores two sixteenth-century altarpieces commissioned by a local confraternity for the important Carmelite basilica of Santa Maria del Carmine in Florence. The unorthodox iconographies of these images attest to the willingness of artists and patrons to deviate from Counter-Reformation codes of artistic decorum to meet the devotional needs of local constituencies.

The Department of Art & Music Histories and the Medieval-Renaissance Group co-host Professor Dow's visit.

Sally Cornelison, Art & Music Histories