Women and the Nude in Renaissance Art, 1500-1650
Time: April 9, 2021, 3 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Location: virtual
Sheila Barker (Medici Archive Project)
Focusing on women and erotic mythology in Renaissance art, Barker draws from an essay she wrote for a forthcoming catalogue for “Mythological Passions: From Titian to Velazquez," an exhibition opening later this year at the Prado Museum in Madrid. All are welcome to attend this public lecture, which may be of particularly interest to students, scholars, and admirers of early modern art, history, gender studies, European/Italian language and culture.
Dr. Barker, Executive Director of the Friends of the Medici Archive Project and Founding Director of the Jane Fortune Research Program on Women Artists, is an international expert on 16th- to 17th-century Italian art, plague art, women artists, and early modern medicine and pharmacy. In recent years, she has been especially prolific, publishing on, curating international exhibitions on, and fostering the study of early modern Italian women artists such as Artemisia Gentileschi and Giovanna Garzoni.
Image: "Artemisia Gentileschi, Triumph of Galatea" (also known as Triumph of Amphitrite), c. 1649, Italy, private collection.
Additional supporters:
- Art & Music Histories Department
- History Department
- Medieval-Renaissance Studies Group
- Women’s & Gender Studies Department
Sally J. Cornelison, Art & Music Histories / Medieval-Renaissance