Sofonisba’s Lesson: A Renaissance Artist and Her Work

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Michael Cole is a specialist in Renaissance and Baroque European art, with a focus on art in 15th-, 16th-, and 17th-century Italy. He has written extensively on the materials of art, with essays on the early modern conception of bronze, on the sculptor's use of the stone block, on the centrality of wax and clay models, and on the aesthetic of impoverishment. Other essays have treated magic, demonology, and Renaissance conceptions of "animation." Most of his work, however, has focused on the history of artistic practices.

This lecture is being held in the context of ARTHIST/GSF 732S, Women and Art (graduate seminar).

Free and open to the public. Sponsored by the Department of Art, Art History & Visual Studies.