Prof. Anna Maria Tofani Petrioli, director of the Uffizi Gallery
(Florence,Italy) is the Visiting Ruth and Clark Kennedy Professor in
Renaissance
Studies for the Fall Semester 1997 at Smith College, Northampton, MA.
Smith College announces two public lectures by prof. Tofani
Petrioli and a two-day symposium with her participation.
Public Lectures (free and open to the public):
Wednesday Sept. 24, 1997, h 7:30 p.m. Wright Hall, Smith College:
"Four Centuries of History"
Wednesday Oct. 8, 1997, h 7:30 p.m. Wright Hall, Smith College:
"Conservation: Projects and Discoveries"
SYMPOSIUM: Friday Oct 17- Saturday Oct 18, 1997
"Il Disegno: The Process of Drawing in Sixteenth-Century Florence"
Keynote Lecture: Anna Maria Petrioli Tofani: "Il Disegno as an Instrument
to Study the Past and Understand the Present"
Friday Oct 17, h 8:00 p.m. Wright Hall Auditorium, Smith College
Saturday Oct 18, h 9:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m., Wright Hall Auditorium, Smith
College:
Linda Wolk-Simon (The Robert Lehman Collection, The Metropolitan Museum of
Art): "The Brief Life and Early Death of Naturalism in Roman Drawing:
Raphael and his Followers."
Elizabeth Pilliod (Oregon State and Rutgers Universities): "The Influence
of Michelangelo: Pontormo, Bronzino and Allori."
Nicholas Turner (The J. Paul Getty Museum): "The Emergence of a
Naturalistic Style of Drawing in Florence at the End of the Sixteenth
Century."
Ann Sievers (Smith College Museum of Art): "A Figure Study by Cigoli for
'The Dream of Jacob" in Nancy."
Miles Chappell (College of William and Mary): "Cigoli Drawings and the
Rise of the Baroque in Florence."
Saturday, Oct 18, h 2:30-3:30 p.m. informal discussion in the exibition
with speakers
In conjunction with the events, at the Smith College Museum of Art:
the exhibition: "CIGOLI's DREAM OF JACOB and Drawing in Late Sixteenth-
Century Florence"
Oct 3- Dec. 14 1997
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