How Giotto changed the world - and how the world responded
How Giotto changed the world - and how the world responded
Sunday 26 April 2020
How Giotto changed the world - and how the world responded
How Giotto changed the world - and how the world responded
Sunday 26 April 2020
Sunday Lecture with Sara Riccardi
The revolutionary contribution of Giotto's style to the development of Western art is often remarked, but which were the specific aspects Giotto innovated? What did writer and artist Cennino Cennini mean when he said that "Giotto changed the profession of painting from Greek back into Latin, and brought it up to date"? This talk will present some of the key novelties promoted by Giotto, contextualising them, and highlighting how the following generations of artists responded, with a focus on those areas and artists that in the first half of the 1400 worked across the Medieval tradition and blossoming Renaissance.
Sara Riccardi is an art historian from Rome, who specialised in mid-15th century Italian painting; after acquiring her BA and MA in Rome, she moved to the UK and founded her own company, working as freelance public speaker, delivering art-historical events in different venues across Manchester, including The Portico Library, The Whitworth, Manchester Art Gallery and Manchester Central Library. She is currently working on the proposal for a PhD project on innovative ways of presentation of Art History, following her interest in re-considering the role and relevance of art historians for our contemporary society and the wider public.
Further Details:
Cost per person: £15.00
Booking has now closed for this event.
Time & Venue: 11.00am to 12.00 the Whitworth, Meeting Room 1
Sunday Lecture with Sara Riccardi
The revolutionary contribution of Giotto's style to the development of Western art is often remarked, but which were the specific aspects Giotto innovated? What did writer and artist Cennino Cennini mean when he said that "Giotto changed the profession of painting from Greek back into Latin, and brought it up to date"? This talk will present some of the key novelties promoted by Giotto, contextualising them, and highlighting how the following generations of artists responded, with a focus on those areas and artists that in the first half of the 1400 worked across the Medieval tradition and blossoming Renaissance.
Sara Riccardi is an art historian from Rome, who specialised in mid-15th century Italian painting; after acquiring her BA and MA in Rome, she moved to the UK and founded her own company, working as freelance public speaker, delivering art-historical events in different venues across Manchester, including The Portico Library, The Whitworth, Manchester Art Gallery and Manchester Central Library. She is currently working on the proposal for a PhD project on innovative ways of presentation of Art History, following her interest in re-considering the role and relevance of art historians for our contemporary society and the wider public.
Further Details:
Cost per person: £15.00
Booking has now closed for this event.
Time & Venue: 11.00am to 12.00 the Whitworth, Meeting Room 1
EVENT DATE
APRIL 26, 2020
COST
£15.00 per person
POSTAL BOOKINGS
Booking Closed
NUMBER OF PLACES
Max. places: 30
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