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Sicilian Art History During the Mediterranean's Golden Age with Alessandra Buccheri
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Alessandra Buccheri is professor of History of Art at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Palermo. In 2009 she completed her PhD at the University of Oxford. Her main area of research is visual culture in early modern Italy, with a special focus on theater, architecture, and decoration (including sculptures and paintings in their original architectural context). She is also interested in gender studies and women in the visual arts. Her published volumes include Quando l'ornamento non è delitto. Un percorso attraverso la cultura visiva siciliana dal tardo-gotico al Novecento (2020), co-edited with Giulia Ingarao, and Archetipi del femminile. Rappresentazioni di genere, identità e ruoli sociali nell'arte dalle origini a oggi (2017), co-edited with Giulia Ingarao and Emilia Valenza. Her most recent monograph, The Spectacle of Clouds, 1439-1650. Italian Art and Theatre (2014), explores the origin and meaning of cloud compositions by looking at the complex relationship between their three-dimensional construction and display in religious and court theater, and their pictorial representations both in churches and secular buildings. She will spend the Spring term 2021 at the Italian Academy for the Advanced Studies in America (Columbia University, New York), where she has been awarded the Weinberg Fellowship in Architectural History and Preservation.
This conversation is suitable for all ages.
90 minutes, including a 30 minute Q&A.
Terrific Introduction!!!!
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Very interesting talk on Baroque art in mainly in Palermo, with a look at a few other places on the island
This is one of the best Context Conversations I have ever done. Professora Buccheri introduced Baroque art, its origins, the ways it was used by the 17th century church, and then looked at the particulary exuberant churches and other Baroque buildings in Sicily.
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