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A Lecture by Ubaldo Vitali (2011 MacArthur Fellow), in conversation with Ulysses Grant Dietz (Newark Museum).

* Please note: The introduction will be in English and the conversation in Italian, with consecutive translation into English.

Discussion highlights: Fashion as a manufacturing industry and a powerful symbolic system is embedded with the economic shifts in global and local market sand it has also a profound implication with emotions, religious and ethical choices, aesthetics and politics of the body and self-presentation, textile production, intelligent and sustainable design and consumption.

Fashion of the Vine Sparkling Reception to follow.

Don’t miss a chance to meet this most knowledgeable and passionate advocate for the cheeses and wines of Italy. Lou DiPalo is serious about cheese: his fourth generation family runs store stocks more than one hundred iterations of Pecorino alone! DiPalo regularly conducts seminars on the Formaggi d’Italia and recently opened an enoteca to promote wines with his vast selection of cheese. He will detail how typicity, provenance, and maturation regimes contribute to the irresistible quality of Italian cheese.

ITALIAN CHEESE'S "X"- FACTOR!: Gourmet Italian Cheese & Wine Exploration with New York's beloved Italian Cheese Guru - Lou Di Palo presented by Agriform in collaboration with the Italian Trade Commission.
Join Italian Cheese Guru, Lou Di Palo, for a memorable wine and cheese pairing experience. Lou will discuss Italian Cheese's "X" factor and how typicity, provenance and maturation regimes contribute to the irresistible taste of DOP cheeses like Agriform's Grana Padano, Piave, Asiago, Valtellina Casera and more!

Works of art rarely seen by the public, including Madonna of the Impruneta Type by Andrea della Robbia and a fresco after Pietro Lorenzetti, are housed in the Reading Room of the Frick Art Reference Library. Join Andrew W. Mellon Chief Librarian Stephen Bury for a half-hour tour of the Reading Room and its treasures.

This talk meets in the Lobby of the Frick Art Reference Library at 10 East 71st Street; advance reservations are required.
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During a career spanning nearly sixty years Piero della Francesca worked in almost every major center across the Italian peninsula, although nowhere did he accept more commissions than in Borgo San Sepolcro. Like his native city, Piero's paintings are possessed of a character that is neither Florentine nor Sienese but entirely unique. On the closing weekend of the special exhibition, the show's curator will discuss Piero's career in Borgo and explore how some of his masterpieces created for that city reached American shores.

Virgin and Child Enthroned with Four Angels is unquestionably the least well known and least studied of Piero della Francesca's works. This panel is also one of the most fascinating, having been painted for a leading family of Piero's native Sansepolcro, the Gherardi, who were related to him through his niece. It seems to be a late work, perhaps from the 1470s or 1480s. Like Alberti, Piero enjoyed the company and patronage of Federigo da Montefeltro, whose library had copies of Piero's treatises on perspective and the five regular bodies of geometry.

The landscapes in Piero Della Francesca's paintings, particularly his Baptism of Christ (National Gallery, London), are often thought to recall the area around his hometown of Borgo San Sepolcro. In truth, they evoke the upper Tiber Valley without describing it precisely. But what did it mean to locate sacred scenes in a recognizable and local setting? Did that landscape carry any connotations for the fifteenth-century residents of Borgo San Sepolcro that might be lost to us today? Let's find out.

Works of art rarely seen by the public, including Madonna of the Impruneta Type by Andrea della Robbia and a fresco after Pietro Lorenzetti, are housed in the Reading Room of the Frick Art Reference Library. Join Andrew W. Mellon Chief Librarian Stephen Bury for a half-hour tour of the Reading Room and its treasures.

Advance reservations are required.
This talk meets in the Lobby of the Frick Art Reference Library at 10 East 71st Street.