NSU Art Museum presents Michelangelo: The First Modern Painter, Live Virtual Lecture

Tuesday, May 19th from 5-6pm enjoy a live virtual lecture with NSU Art Museum, Michelangelo: The First Modern Painter. Join in on a fascinating lecture by art historian and television personality, Rocky Ruggiero, that takes you inside the mind and work of Michelangelo, who ushered in a new style of painting called Mannerism, the first -ism movement in the history of art.

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.

Image credit: Michelangelo, The Creation of Adam, 1508-1512. Sistine Chapel