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NSU Art Museum presents Caravaggio and Frank Stella: Live Lecture with Rocky Ruggiero
June 30, 2020 @ 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm
Tuesday, June 30th from 5:30-6:30pm enjoy an online lecture via Zoom with NSU Art Museum in which art historian and tv personality, Rocky Ruggiero, will reveal the fascinating relationship between contemporary artist Frank Stella and Baroque artist Caravaggio. The immediacy of Caravaggio’s theatrical picture spaces marked a turning point in the history of European painting and inspired a ‘new pictoriality’ the work of Stella and other modern abstract artists. Ruggiero will examine Caravaggio’s revolutionary at and it’s impact on the art of the 17th and 20th centuries.
Free for Members. $5 for non-members.
Must RSVP for Zoom login information/RSVP here.
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.