Paint It Black: Titian’s religious paintings for Philip II
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Thursday 9 July 2020
(2-3pm) - Online Zoom Event, link details will be emailed to attendees on the morning of the event
- Lecturer: Carlo Corsato
This lecture will examine the religious works which Titian produced for Philip II whilst the artist was working on his series of mythologies for the monarch.
Lectures are free to members but require booking since places are limited. Please only book one place, unless you have joint membership and are using separate devices to join the lecture online. You will receive an email the day before the lecture with details of how to join the event. If you do not receive it please check your spam/junk mail folder.
Please note that this lecture will be delivered via Zoom and you will need to be familiar with this app in order to participate – we do not have the capacity to provide any back-up or advice on the use of Zoom. We recommend that you log on to Zoom 15 minutes before the start time of the event even if you are familiar with the app since the process can take some time if a lot of participants are logging on at the same time.
Lecturer
Dr Carlo Corsato is an art historian and lecturer specialising in early-modern European art and architecture in Italy and Flanders with a particular expertise in Venetian painting. Carlo gained a PhD in Art History, Criticism & Conservation 2010 at the Università degli Studi di Verona. He is a research curator at the National Gallery and teaches at Morley College, London. He has been a learning coordinator at the Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art, Visiting Lecturer at the University of Buckingham and Visiting Scholar at St John College, Cambridge. Among his publications are Lives of Titian and Lives of Tintoretto (Pallas Athene/Getty Publications, 2019) and he has contributed to international scholarly journals and exhibition catalogues, and co-edited the first completed monograph on the church of Frari, Venice.
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