NSU Art Museum presents That’s Entertainment: Leisure, Spectacle, and Pageantry in Italian Renaissance Art

Tuesday, November 10th from 5:30 – 6:30pm NSU Art Museum presents a live lecture via Zoom by Rocky Ruggiero, Ph.D with additional commentary by Bonnie Clearwater discussing “That’s Entertainment: Leisure, Spectacle, and Pageantry in Italian Renaissance Art”.

In Renaissance Italy, recreation and leisure were expressions of civility and cultural refinement. Theatrical representations, musical performances, banquets, games, jousts, and public ceremony were just as vital to early modern Italian society as the extraordinary art and architecture that it produced. Not only did a great deal of the art of the period showcase leisure, but many of the Renaissance’s greatest artists, such as Brunelleschi and Leonardo da Vinci, employed their talents in the field. This presentation will examine the tradition of leisure and entertainment in Renaissance Italy by examining those artists and works that best represented it.

Free for Museum members; $5 non-members. Register to join on Zoom

Rocky Ruggiero is a professor of Art and Architectural History and expert on Italian Renaissance art who has lectured at numerous universities throughout the United States and Italy. His television appearances include the History Channel documentaries, Engineering an Empire: Da Vinci’s World and Museum Secrets: the Uffizi Gallery, and the NOVA PBS program Great Cathedral Mystery.

Bonnie Clearwater is the Director and Chief Curator at NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale. A noted art historian and curator, Clearwater has written extensively on contemporary art and authored over forty publications on modern and contemporary artists, including Marcel Duchamp, Tracey Emin, Helen Frankenthaler, Ana Mendieta, Mark Rothko, Shinique Smith, among others.