A lecture by Kevin Murphy
Our visual idea of what the places, people and events of the Italian Renaissance looked like, was forged almost exclusively in paint, and more recently than you might think. From the ‘history painters’ of the nineteenth-century who sought historical heroes and villains to comment on modern times, to the French surrealist Marcel Duchamp's readymade Mona Lisa pastiches, the Italian Renaissance has been imagined, politicised, commercialised and lampooned by painters. Their work reveals how the Renaissance could be celebrated or rejected, but never ignored. By exploring these images we can understand the sources of our collective 'memories' of the Renaissance.
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This lecture is sponsored by Janet Strazzulla.