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During the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries, collectors' insatiable taste for Renaissance paintings led to the often callous disassembly of towering polyptychs in Italian and Spanish churches. Precious fragments—such as The Frick Collection’s Temptation of Christ— were reframed, restored, and sold off as individual masterpieces. This seminar will explore the afterlife of Renaissance altarpieces, revealing the stories of their fascinating journeys from churches to museums across the world and attempts by art historians to reconstruct their original appearances.

Join the curator for an overview of the first monographic exhibition in the United States dedicated to Piero della Francesca, a founding figure of the Italian Renaissance.

Gallery talks meet in the Garden Court; advance reservations are required. 

Please join us for an evening to explore the music and history of Carnevale, a celebration that was thought to have originated 850 years ago in the Piazza San Marco, Venice, Italy. Members and guests will learn much more about Carnevale in Italy during a short presentation by NOIAW/SI network Committee members Maryrose Barranco Morris, Rosetta Palmeri, Donna Nastasi, Lucia Grillo and Joan Migliori.

More often celebrated as a painter, Piero della Francesca was also a pioneering mathematician. This lecture will discuss Piero’s achievements as a mathematician, focusing on his precocious mastery of the teachings of the Greek geometrician Archimedes. Shortly after his death, Luca Pacioli, a Franciscan friar, published two of Piero’s treatises under his own name and conveyed Piero’s knowledge of geometry to Leonardo da Vinci, who later became an expert in the subject.

Led by James R. Banker, North Carolina State University

The painter Piero della Francesca was one of the greatest mathematicians of his day. He was also a consummate storyteller. By focusing on two of his most noble works, The Flagellation (Galleria Nazionale delle Marche, Urbino) and The Story of the True Cross (Church of San Francesco, Arezzo), this seminar will trace how he adapted these skills to imbue traditional subjects with new significance and unprecedented power of intellectual and emotional expression.

Led by Marilyn Aronberg Lavin, art historian.
Tickets: ($100) Members: ($90).
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Join the curator for an overview of the first monographic exhibition in the United States dedicated to Piero della Francesca, a founding figure of the Italian Renaissance.

Gallery talks meet in the Garden Court;
Free with museum admission, advance reservations are required.

During the early Renaissance, Piero della Francesca’s artistic talents were highly sought after by patrons across the Italian peninsula but nowhere more so than in his hometown of Borgo San Sepolcro. This lecture will explore how Piero gradually transformed the art of painting by applying his pioneering pictorial imagination to the challenge of three gothic polyptychs and by introducing Renaissance format paintings into the domestic interior with his Virgin and Child Enthroned with Four Angels (featured in the exhibition) and Nativity of Christ (The National Gallery, London).

Paolo Marchettini is an Italian composer and clarinetist from Rome. He studied Composition, Choral Music and Choral Conducting, clarinet at the Conservatorio di Santa Cecilia in Rome and he specialized in Composition at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia. He carries on an intensive activity as instrumentalist, both in chamber music ensembles and as soloist. He is currently teaching in the Theory Department at Manhattan School of Music (New York).

Revered in his own time as a "monarch" of painting, Piero della Francesca (1411/13–1492) is acknowledged today as a founding figure of the Italian Renaissance. In early 2013, The Frick Collection will present the first monographic exhibition in the United States dedicated to the artist. It brings together seven works by Piero della Francesca, including six panels from the Sant'Agostino altarpiece — the largest number from this masterwork ever reassembled. They will be joined by the Virgin and Child Enthroned with Attendant Angels, his only intact altarpiece in this country.

Revered in his own time as a "monarch" of painting, Piero della Francesca (1411-1492) is acknowledged today as a founding figure of the Italian Renaissance. In early 2013, The Frick Collection will present the first monographic exhibition in the United States dedicated to the artist. It brings together seven works by Piero della Francesca, including six panels from the Sant'Agostino altarpiece — the largest number from this masterwork ever reassembled. They will be joined by the Virgin and Child Enthroned with Attendant Angels, his only intact altarpiece in this country.