| THE SYDNEY J. FREEDBERG LECTURE ON ITALIAN ART & BOOK SIGNING | | |
| Thoughts on the Caravaggisti
Michael Fried, J. R. Herbert Boone Professor of Humanities and the History of Art, The Johns Hopkins University
November 7 at 2:00 p.m.
East Building Concourse, Auditorium
Book signing of The Moment of Caravaggio follows.
This is the fourteenth annual lecture offered by the National Gallery in this endowed series named after the great specialist of Italian art, Sydney J. Freedberg (1914–1997).
It is often assumed that the so-called Caravaggisti, Caravaggio's immediate followers, were painters of no great originality, who essentially made pastiches of one sort or another of his work. In this lecture, Professor Michael Fried argues that—on the contrary—what emerged in the immediate wake of Caravaggio's achievement was a new paradigm for ambitious painting, one with its own distinct pictorial poetics. Among the artists discussed are Bartolomeo Manfredi, Orazio Gentileschi, and Valentin de Boulogne.
About the Speaker:
Michael Fried is one of the foremost art historians and art critics working today. He has written on high modernist painting and sculpture, on the prehistory of modernism in the French painting and art criticism of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, on the great German realist painter and draftsman Adolph Menzel, on Thomas Eakins and Stephen Crane, and on recent art photography in this country and abroad. His most recent book, The Moment of Caravaggio , is based on the A.W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts that he delivered at the National Gallery of Art in 2002. He has also published two books of poems. In 2004, he received a Mellon Distinguished Achievement Award. A new book, Four Honest Outlaws: Sala, Ray, Marioni, and Gordon, will be published in the spring of 2011. Fried received his BA from Princeton University and his PhD from Harvard University. He taught at Harvard between 1968 and 1975, and moved to the Johns Hopkins University in the fall of the latter year. At Harvard he studied with Sydney J. Freedberg; for Fried and other students of modern art during those years, Freedberg's intensely visual and brilliantly articulated lectures and seminars were a continual source of inspiration.
www.nga.gov/programs/lectures/index.shtm#caravaggisti (lecture listing)
shop.nga.gov/nga/category.cgi?item=410000390504 (purchase the book)
www.nga.gov/podcasts/freedberg.htm (lecture podcasts) |
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Lectures are free and open to the public. Seating is available on a first-come, first-seated basis. Registration is not required. |
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