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William Wallace
Barbara Murphy Bryant Distinguished Professor of Art History
Michelangelo and the Sistine Chapel: 500 Years
Wednesday
4-8-15
12:30 PM |
Lunch Seminar:
Certain of Death: Michelangelo's Late Life and Art
Knights Physics Building, Physics Conference Room 334
For Humanities Faculty & Graduate Students
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Thursday
4-9-15
7:00 PM |
Public Lecture:
Michelangelo and the Sistine Chapel
Storer Auditorium
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In 1508, Michelangelo was called back to Rome to undertake the painting of the Sistine Chapel ceiling. Michelangelo objected that “painting is not my art,” and he had no previous experience directing a large-scale campaign in the demanding medium of fresco, but here he employed more than a dozen painters and craftsmen to help carry out the herculean project. William Wallace concludes that Michelangelo di Lodovico di Buonarotti Simoni was not, or at least not only, the epitome of the lonely, tormented, quarrelsome genius.
“...the artist who emerges from these pages is paradoxically a far richer character than the one captured in fiction—as complicated as his art, and as fiercely intelligent as his times.”
— Ann Landi, ArtNews
William E. Wallace is the Barbara Murphy Bryant Distinguished Professor of Art History at Washington University in St. Louis. He is an internationally recognized authority on Michelangelo and his contemporaries and the author or editor of six different books on Michelangelo.
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