From Ferrara to Farnese Rome
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Thursday 21 June 2018
(11am-4.30pm) - Brockway Room, Conway Hall, 25 Red Lion Square, London WC1R 4RL
- Lecturers: Paula Nuttall and Geoffrey Nuttall
We begin with the refined court of the Este at Ferrara, for whom Pisanello invented the art form of the portrait medal, and Titian painted his first great mythologies. Cardinal Ippolito d’Este, creator of the famous Villa d’Este at Tivoli, takes us to Rome, where we focus on the princely patronage of a papal family, the Farnese, whose dynastic ambitions were expressed in works by Titian, Michelangelo and Vasari.
Lecturers
Dr Paula Nuttall is an art historian specialising in the Renaissance, with a particular interest in artistic relations between Italy and the Netherlands. She has published widely on this topic, and has contributed to major exhibitions, including Van Eyck: An Optical Revolution (Ghent, 2020).
Dr Geoffrey Nuttall is an art historian whose work focuses on artistic patronage in Italy, and in particular the Tuscan city of Lucca. In 2020 he co-edited, with Paula, a volume of studies on Filippino Lippi, and has published widely on the activities of Lucchese merchants across Europe.
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