Members’ Opening Reception & Lecture: Michelangelo’s Women
October 8 at 5:30pm–7:30pm Jepson Center
Join us for a lively reception in the soaring Jepson Atrium as we celebrate the opening of Michelangelo’s Women: Images of Female Power and Divinity from the Casa Buonarroti. Enjoy light refreshments followed by an opening lecture by guest curator Dr. Gary Radke, one of the world’s leading experts on Italian Medieval and Renaissance art and architecture.
Lecture begins at 6:15pm in the Neises Auditorium.
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Dr. Gary Radke is one of the world’s leading experts on Italian Medieval and Renaissance art and architecture, with a special interest in 15th-century Florentine sculpture. He has served as Dean’s Professor of the Humanities and Professor of Art History in the College of Arts and Sciences at Syracuse University, where he also directed the internationally noted Florence Graduate Program in Renaissance Art for 35 years. Since 2001, Radke has also served as a guest curator at Atlanta’s High Museum of Art, where he organized a series of high-profile shows—and their respective exhibition catalogs—featuring works by Leonardo, Michelangelo, Ghiberti, Verrocchio, and other Italian Renaissance masters. Radke is a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome.
