Wednesday, February 24, 2010, 18.00
Lecture: Louis A. Waldman
What happens when a great painter dies suddenly, leaving the loose strands of his life and career untied? The death of Jacopo da Pontormo in 1557 ignited a complex legal battle for possession of his artistic and financial legacy. Through surviving testimony (much of it newly discovered in the Florentine archives) we can follow a courtroom drama tainted with lies, intrigue, theft and scandal. Louis Waldman is Associate Professor of Renaissance and Baroque Art History at the University of Texas. Since 2007 he has been Assistant Director of Harvard's Villa I Tatti.