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Frank Dabell @ Galleria Prencipe

a cura di Frank Dabell

Wednesday December 7 2016 
Artists and Popes in Rome in the Fifteenth Century
A look at the painters working for the Papacy in the mid-to-late 1400s (Angelico, Piero della Francesca and his followers, Pinturicchio), and at Della Rovere patronage (Melozzo), with an emphasis on works in the Pinacoteca Vaticana. The Picture Gallery is not only (and obviously) important for a general history of Italian art, butemblematic of specific moments in the decoration of the Vatican.

Wednesday December 14 2016 

The Papal Apartments from Nicholas V to Alexander VI, and the Sistine Chapel
A discussion of the Vatican's painted spaces, great and small, before the arrival
of Michelangelo and Raphael, with a consideration of some subjects, techniques and details in the Chapel of Nicholas V, the Cappella Magna (Perugino, Botticelli and their "dream team") and the Borgia Apartment.

Frank Dabell is a graduate of Merton College, Oxford and a former Fellow of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. He has taught the history of Renaissance art for Temple University Rome since 2003, and for Dartmouth College in 2016. Since 1984 he has published numerous articles and book reviews ( Paragone, Arte Cristiana, The Burlington Magazine, The Times Literary Supplement, etc.). In 2016 he was one of the curators, with Antonio Paolucci, of the exhibition Piero della Francesca. Indagine su un mito (Forlì), and contributed to the exhibitions Melozzo da Forlì and Il primato della Toscana nelle Vite del Vasari (both 2011). He is a member of the committee for the conservation of Piero della Francesca's Resurrection in Sansepolcro.