NSU Art Museum presents Giotto, Rothko and Schnabel: Live Lecture with Rocky Ruggiero

Tuesday, August 4th from 5:30 – 6:30pm NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale presents Sensational Spaces: Giotto, Rothko and Schnabel: LIVE Virtual Lecture with Rocky Ruggiero, Ph.D. With additional commentary by Bonnie Clearwater. Join art historian and television personality Rocky Ruggiero and NSU Art Museum Director and Chief Curator, Bonnie Clearwater, for “Sensational Spaces: Giotto, Rothko and Schnabel” as they once again explore how the pictorial space created by Renaissance painters influenced contemporary artists. In this Live Zoom talk they will show how early Renaissance master Giotto inspired Mark Rothko and Julian Schnabel.

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