A Michelangelo Discovery Symposium - Monday 6 July
| Created: | 2016-08-08 09:31 |
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| Institution: | Fitzwilliam Museum |
| Description: | In addition to their authorship and date of manufacture, the Rothschild bronzes throw up many other questions: who commissioned them and for where; how were they originally displayed; and what do they mean? A one-day symposium was held at Downing College, University of Cambridge, in July 2015, to try to answer some of these questions. Papers covering a range of topics were presented to c. 120 delegates by a team of international experts. |
| Website: | http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/research/michelangelodiscovery |
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Welcome: Tim Knox
Collection: A Michelangelo Discovery Symposium - Monday 6 July
Institution: Fitzwilliam Museum
Created: Mon 8 Aug 2016
Introduction: Victoria Avery
Collection: A Michelangelo Discovery Symposium - Monday 6 July
Institution: Fitzwilliam Museum
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The Rothschild nudes: an anatomical who dunnit - Peter Abrahams
Unsigned and undocumented, the Rothschild bronzes pose many questions, not least who made them. They have recently been attributed to Michelangelo and dated to c. 1506-08, based...
Collection: A Michelangelo Discovery Symposium - Monday 6 July
Institution: Fitzwilliam Museum
Created: Mon 8 Aug 2016
Technical considerations of the Rothschild bronzes - Robert van Langh
My paper will focus on how the bronzes were made and why their surfaces look the way they do. It discusses the technological evidence which suggests that they were cast early on...
Collection: A Michelangelo Discovery Symposium - Monday 6 July
Institution: Fitzwilliam Museum
Created: Mon 8 Aug 2016
Reconstructing the Rothschild bronzes - Andrew Lacey
As a sculptor, bronze-caster and archaeo-metallurgist, I am fascinated by how the Rothschild bronzes were made. Working in close collaboration with Robert van Langh, I have made...
Collection: A Michelangelo Discovery Symposium - Monday 6 July
Institution: Fitzwilliam Museum
Created: Mon 8 Aug 2016
The Rothschild bronzes: a possible patron and context for the commission - Martin Gayford
My paper will consider whether there was a point in Michelangelo’s packed schedule in the first decade of the sixteenth century in to which the making of the bronzes might have...
Collection: A Michelangelo Discovery Symposium - Monday 6 July
Institution: Fitzwilliam Museum
Created: Mon 8 Aug 2016
Subject and meaning: the Rothschild bronzes - William E. Wallace
The Rothschild bronzes are impressive and fascinating objects. Their attribution to Michelangelo will continue to generate debate and disagreement. Somewhat less controversial is...
Collection: A Michelangelo Discovery Symposium - Monday 6 July
Institution: Fitzwilliam Museum
Created: Mon 8 Aug 2016
What a ride! Brilliant balance and the beasts of the Rothschild bronzes - Faya Causey
My paper is mostly iconographic. Why do the four-legged beasts look as they do and what are their sources? The remarkable athleticism of the riders also deserves a closer look.
Collection: A Michelangelo Discovery Symposium - Monday 6 July
Institution: Fitzwilliam Museum
Created: Mon 8 Aug 2016
Michelangelo's bronze David: its ancestry and progeny - David Ekserdjian
Michelangelo’s bronze David, which was sent to France at the time of its manufacture in the first decade of the sixteenth century, and disappeared in the nineteenth, may in theory...
Collection: A Michelangelo Discovery Symposium - Monday 6 July
Institution: Fitzwilliam Museum
Created: Mon 8 Aug 2016
Michelangelo's bronze River Gods: perpetuation, gemination and modification - Eike Schmidt
In the Bargello are two small bronzes of River gods cast from models that Michelangelo made in connection with the New Sacristy in San Lorenzo. The Bargello bronzes have received...
Collection: A Michelangelo Discovery Symposium - Monday 6 July
Institution: Fitzwilliam Museum
Created: Mon 8 Aug 2016
Michelangelo and Rustici - Paul Joannides
My paper will begin with a few words about the unique bronze Hercules Pomarius in the Victoria and Albert Museum, which I attributed to Michelangelo many years ago, and recalling...
Collection: A Michelangelo Discovery Symposium - Monday 6 July
Institution: Fitzwilliam Museum
Created: Mon 8 Aug 2016
Non è la mia professione: Michelangelo and the arti minori - Timothy Clifford
Michelangelo’s work as a sculptor, painter on panel and in fresco, as an architect and as an expert on fortifications have all received massive attention from scholars but his...
Collection: A Michelangelo Discovery Symposium - Monday 6 July
Institution: Fitzwilliam Museum
Created: Mon 8 Aug 2016