Dr. Joe Luzzi

The Italians have a saying traduttore, traditore – that is, the “translator" of a book can often be a “traitor” to it if he fails to capture both its letter and its spirit! In this in-person event, Joseph Luzzi, the Asher B. Edelman Professor of Literature at Bard College, will joi...

Dr. Jeremy Wasser

In the North African city of Alexandria, sometime between the 2nd and 4th centuries CE, a Christian scholar put pen to parchment and produced a manuscript known as the Physiologus. The title of the work speaks directly to the identity of this unknown author and is often transla...

with Susan Jaques

Throughout his military campaigns, Napoleon Bonaparte systematically plundered art, with a preference for Italian paintings and antiquities. After Napoleon’s defeat, the Duke of Wellington vowed to teach the French “a great moral lesson” by spearheading the restitution of stol...

Dr. Laurinda Dixon

Traveling to Italy in search of art and architecture is a great adventure. Here travelers can still experience art in situ – that is, where and how it was intended to be seen, rather than hanging isolated on museum walls. Much of Italy’s Renaissance heritage has been lovingly...

Dr. Sally J. Cornelison

Just in time for Valentine’s Day! The theme of love, as well as its possible pitfalls, was represented in a variety of artistic media during the Italian Renaissance. This webinar will explore paintings and frescoes created to celebrate marriage and encourage procreation, ...

Dr. Daniel Zolli

Even in an age filled with versatile artists, Donatello (1386-1466) stands out for his uncommon range. Though best known for the outsize body of marble and bronze sculpture that he produced over a sixty-year career (his bronze David remains a standard introduction to fifteenth-c...

Dr. Meghan Callahan

Women artists tended not to become sculptors, as the more physical work of sculpting was seen as “man’s work.” However, since the 16th century and into the 21st, women carved marble and designed bronzes.
This talk will cover the art of sculptors Anne Seymour Damer (1748–1828)...

Dr. Paolo Alei

This lecture will virtually take you on a pilgrimage to the Basilica of Saint Peter in Rome as envisioned by Bernini in the 17th century. We will ideally walk on the Bridge of Castel Sant’Angelo and through Piazza San Pietro to reach the glorious Baldacchino, and finally the Cathe...