Curator Talk on Botticelli Drawings
Sandro Botticelli, Portrait of a Lady at the Window, Known as Smeralda Bandinelli (detail), ca. 1475. Tempera on poplar panel, 25 7/8 × 16 7/16 in. (65.7 × 41.7 cm). Victoria and Albert Museum, Bequeathed by Constantine Alexander Ionides
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Hear a presentation on Botticelli Drawings, the first exhibition ever dedicated to the drawings of the Renaissance artist. Join Furio Rinaldi, exhibition curator and curator of the Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, for an in-depth look at some of the exhibition’s featured works and the behind-the-scenes planning that brought this exhibition to life.
About the speaker
Furio Rinaldi is curator of drawings and prints at the Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, the Fine Arts Museums’ department of works on paper. An expert on 15th- and 16th-century Italian drawings, particularly the schools of Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, and Michelangelo, he has published extensively on the subject in Burlington Magazine, Master Drawings, and Metropolitan Museum of Art Journal. At the Museums, he organized the Legion of Honor exhibition Color into Line: Pastel from the Renaissance to the Present (2021–2022). His curatorial experience includes positions in the department of drawings and prints at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, where he also served as a Samuel H. Kress Fellow, and the Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan. Rinaldi holds a PhD in art history from the University of Rome and an MA and BA in art history from the University of Milan.
Ticket info
Free program. Seating is limited and unassigned. Tickets are first come, first served, and distributed in front of Gunn Theater an hour before the program starts. This does not include admission to the exhibition.
Contact info
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