The Intimate Letters of Vittoria Colonna and Michelangelo
| Hours: | 2:00 pm |
| In/Outdoor: | Indoor |
| Cost: | $ see below |
| Category: | Arts & Culture |
Colonna, a 16th century Italian poet and noblewoman, was close friends with the Michelangelo with whom she regularly exchanged letters and poems.
Carmen C. Bambach, a Michelangelo scholar, is curator of the department of drawings and prints at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
She received a PhD from Yale University, where she also earned her BA and MA degrees.
Dr. Bambach was a John Simon Guggenheim fellow in 1996–1997 and the Craig Hugh Smyth Visiting Fellow at Villa I Tatti, the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, in 2009.
She is also the author of Una eredità difficile: I disegni ed i manoscritti di Leonardo tra mito e documento (1999) and Drawing and Painting in the Italian Renaissance Workshop: Theory and Practice, 1300–1600 (1999).
Bambach's work has been published in The Burlington Magazine, Apollo, and an important series of exhibition catalogues on Italian Renaissance drawings.
Ramie Targoff, who is currently at work on a biography of Colonna, is a Professor of English at Brandeis University.
She teaches and studies Renaissance literature, with an emphasis on the relationship between literature and religion.
She has written books on the invention of common prayer and its influence on Renaissance devotional poetry; on the works of the poet and preacher John Donne; and multiple articles on Shakespeare and Renaissance poetry.
Her latest book, Posthumous Love: Eros and the Afterlife in Renaissance England, was published in the spring of 2014.
She is now working on a biography of the sixteenth-century Italian poet, Vittoria Colonna.
Targoff received a B.A.
from Yale University and a Ph.D.
from the University of California, Berkeley.
Join Targoff and Bambach to learn about this fascinating friendship between artist and patron on Saturday, Jan.
10, at 2:00 p.m. in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum’s Calderwood Hall, located at 25 Evans Way, Boston, Mass.
Tickets are required, which may be purchased in advance or at the door, and include Museum admission.
Admission is $15 for adults; $12 for seniors, $5 for students with valid IDs; and free for members.
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$5-15
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25 Evans Way, Boston, MA, 02115 map
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