Bernini, Materials, and Race
Research Seminar
- Public event without registration
- Data: 27.05.2024
- Ora: 14:00 - 16:00
- Relatrice: Evonne Levy
- Luogo: Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rome and online
- Contatto: mara.freiberg@biblhertz.it
The use of bronze and other dark stones for portrait and figurative sculpture during Bernini’s lifetime suggests that some sculptural media could be ethnically or even racially coded. In the increasingly heterogeneous world of seventeenth-century Rome we can first detect a sustained conversation and tension around the racial signifying power of sculptural materials and the competing aesthetic ideas carried by the same materials.
Evonne Levy is Distinguished Professor of Early Modern Art at the University of Toronto
This event can be followed also ONLINE on our VIMEO CHANNEL with this link: https://vimeo.com/event/4257171
Scientific Organization: Ariella Minden
Image: Gianlorenzo Bernini,
Bust of Scipione Borghese, marble, 1623, Galleria Borghese, Rome. Photo:
Galleria Borghese
Kehinde Wiley, Kanye,
bronze, 2015, Photo: The Box, Plymouth