Art for Lunch: Bronzino’s London Venus and the Four Stages of Illicit Love for Catherine de’ Medici
By Evelyn Kiefer
Created 09/07/2006 - 11:57
09/21/2006 - 23:45
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ART FOR LUNCH
Slide/PowerPoint Lectures by Case Art History Faculty, Case Art History Graduate Students Guest Faculty, Cleveland Museum of Art Curators
Prof. Edward Olszewski Department of Art History & Art Case Western Reserve University
will present
Bronzino’s London Venus and the Four Stages of Illicit Love for Catherine de’ Medici
With the recent arguments identifying one of the figures in Bronzino's National Gallery allegory as a personification of Syphillis, the painting can now be read as a moral lesson involving the four stages of illicit love. Giorgio Vasari wrote that the painting was sent to the king of France, who has usually been identified as Francis I. Prof. Olszewski will argue that the painting alludes instead to Henry II and his mistress, Diane de Poitiers, and may have been sent to his queen, Catherine de' Medici from the court of Cosimo I.
September 21, 2006 11:45 am
Mather House Room 100
Location
Case Western Reseerve University, Mather House
10900 Euclid Avenue North Campus between Belflower and Euclid, West of Ford Dr.