Legion of Honor’s Free Symposium on Botticelli (SF)

Submitted by the Event Organizer

We will welcome our new exhibition, “Botticelli Drawings,” at the Legion of Honor with this Symposium on Botticelli featuring internationally acclaimed speakers and curators.

Join us for a one-day international symposium and hear from scholars, curators, and academics on Sandro Botticelli’s art and design processes. This program will include an introduction to the exhibition Botticelli Drawings organized by exhibition curator Furio Rinaldi, curator of the Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts. It will also include original scholarship and presentations by Emanuele Lugli, assistant professor at Stanford University, Patricia L. Rubin, emeritus professor of Renaissance art at the Institute of Fine Arts in New York, Jacqueline Thallmann, curator at the Christ Church Picture Gallery in Oxford, and more.

Schedule:

Thomas P. Campbell (FAMSF, director and CEO), Opening remarks Furio Rinaldi (FAMSF, curator of the Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts), Introduction

Davide Gasparotto (J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles), How Much Do You Want a Botticelli?: Botticelli Comes to America

Jacqueline Thalmann (Christ Church Picture Gallery, Oxford), Botticelli and Filippino Lippi: The Underdrawing of the Christ Church Sibyl Panels Revealed

Emanuele Lugli (Stanford University), Botticelli, Painter and Draftsman of Fabulous Hair

Michelle O’Malley (The Warburg Institute, London), Botticelli’s Hidden Drawings: Management and Production in the Workshop

Patricia Lee Rubin (Courtauld Institute, London), In the Company of Devils, Lost Souls, and Angels: Botticelli, Dante, and The Divine Comedy

Visit our website to learn more about each speaker and their background.

Ticket info:

Free program. Seating is limited and unassigned. Tickets are first come, first served, and distributed in front of Gunn Theater an hour before the program starts. This does not include admission to the exhibition.

COVID-19 guidance:

Masking is strongly recommended, but no longer required for members of the public or employees while in the museum.

Sponsors:

This program is supported by the Italian Cultural Institute of San Francisco and under the auspices of the Italian Consulate General in San Francisco.

Contact info:

Public Programs

publicprograms@famsf.org

415.750.7694

Disclaimer: Please double check event information with the event organizer as events can be canceled, details can change after they are added to our calendar, and errors do occur.