Competition and Collaboration: Keys to Renaissance Creativity
Guest Lectures
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59m
Dr. Gary Radke
The history of Florentine Renaissance art is full of famous competitions, but collaboration was essential, too. Learn how artists and patrons worked with and against one another to get the best from one another. Examples will range from the early fifteenth to sixteenth century, including painting, sculpture, and architecture by Masaccio, Masolino, Donatello, and Luca della Robbia as well as by Ghiberti and Brunelleschi, Leonardo and Michelangelo.
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