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Lunch & Learn | Painting Charity in Late Fifteenth-Century Florence: Filippino Lippi’s Nerli Altarpiece

Lunch & Learn | Painting Charity in Late Fifteenth-Century Florence: Filippino Lippi’s Nerli Altarpiece

The fifteenth-century church of Santo Spirito in Florence retains in situ an admired late 1490s altarpiece by Filippino Lippi, The Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints Martin, Catherine of Alexandria, the Young John the Baptist, and Donors (the Nerli altarpiece). Today's talk will engage with the work’s highly original urban backdrop, including a mysterious episode from secular domestic life. The presenter will lead the viewer on an interpretive journey that requires his or her active and imaginative participation. She will conclude that the altarpiece was a collaborative invention to which the artist, the donors, and the church’s Augustinian friars contributed. While its unusual geography is indebted to Saint Augustine, the focus of the painting is charity, the tie that binds man to his neighbor in need and links husband and wife in a loving marriage.

Presented by University of Maryland lecturer Antonia Fondaras, author of Augustinian Art and Meditation in Renaissance Florence.

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Date:
Friday, June 12, 2020
Time:
12:00pm - 1:00pm Eastern Time
Location:
Lewes Library Zoom Meeting
Library:
Lewes Public Library
Audience:
  Adults     Older Adults  
Categories:
  History and Genealogy  
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