The Metropolitan Museum of Art (Venue Partner)
1000 Fifth Ave at 82nd St
212.535.7710
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Medici
- When
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Friday Nov 6, 2009 (6–8pm)
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Directions: Main Building: Take the 4, 5, or 6 train to 86th Street and walk to Fifth Avenue; OR take the M1, M2, M3, or M4 bus along Fifth Avenue. The Cloisters: Take the A train to 190th Street and walk, or transfer to the M4 bus and ride north one stop.
- Price
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$23
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Medici patronage both in and out of Florence during the 15th century revealed uncanny strategies for using art and architecture as powerful, and on occasion extremely threatening, tools of propaganda. During his talk John Paoletti, Professor of Art History at Wesleyan University, will shed light on how generations of Medici commissioned works of art—first from artists such as Donatello and Brunelleschi and later from the likes of Botticelli and Verrocchio—that not only broke with traditional forms to establish what we have come to call the Renaissance but sent messages into the culture at large that the Medici were rulers, protectors, and devout citizens who were also intent on taking control of the traditionally republican city of Florence. The lecture begins at 6 p.m. in the Museum's Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium.
Tickets for this talk are $23 and are available by clicking here.
Image: Photograph Courtesy The Metropolitan Museum of Art
