Virtual Wednesday Lecture, on Zoom

by Sebastiano Barassi

Henry Moore (1898-1986) is one of the most celebrated and influential artists of the modern age. This lecture explores his life-long relationship with Tuscany, to coincide with the exhibition of Moore’s drawings on display at the Museo Novecento in Florence. Moore first visited Tuscany in 1925 on a travel scholarship, discovering the treasures of the Italian Renaissance and Etruscan art. Over the following decades he returned frequently, and from the 1960s he spent a few months each summer working in Forte dei Marmi, where he had a holiday home and easy access to the stone quarries of the Alpi Apuane. Tuscany became for Moore a home away from home. The friendships he built there, which included the sculptor Marino Marini, the critic Giovanni Carandente and the poet Eugenio Montale, were very important for his artistic development and culminated in the famous 1972 retrospective exhibition at the Forte del Belvedere in Florence, arguably the most important in his career.

Sebastiano Barassi is the Head of Collections & Exhibitions at the Henry Moore Foundation, United Kingdom.

To join this  lecture with Zoom (no reservation necessary), simply click on this link:https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82008059608?pwd=UWJ1R2RDc1gzK25vTE5WMTJ4NFYwQT09 at 18:00 on Wednesday 12th May.