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'Marriage in Renaissance Italy' Lecture Mar. 26 Kicks Off Major Museum Exhibition
Story posted March 24, 2008
Marriage (Nuptiae), ca. 1597. Raphael Sadeler I after Giovanni Stradanus. Bowdoin College Museum of Art. Museum purchase, Lloyd O. and Marjorie Strong Coulter Fund.
Konrad Eisenbichler, professor of Italian and Renaissance studies at the University of Toronto, will give the lecture "Marriage in Renaissance Italy: Patterns, Rituals and Depictions" at 7:30 p.m. Wedneday, March 26, 2008, in Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts Center.
Eisenbichler's talk is presented in conjunction with Beauty and Duty: The Art and Business of Renaissance Marriage, a major new exhibition opening at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art on Thursday, March 27. Read more... Eisenbichler's presentation is sponsored with support from the Jasper Jacob Stahl Lectureship Fund.
Eisenbichler will speak on the variety and diversity of marriage in Renaissance Italy, both in practice and in literature, then focus on visual representations of marriage in the arts of the time with a look at some of the objects associated with marriage. The lecture is open to the public and admission is free.
Konrad Eisenbichler
Konrad Eisenbichler is the author of The Boys of the Archangel Raphael. A Youth Confraternity in Florence, 1411-1785 (1998), winner of the 2000 Marraro Prize for best book of 1998-99 awarded jointly by the American Catholic Historical Association, the American Historical Association, and the Society for Italian Studies.
He edited The Cultural World of Eleonora di Toledo, Duchess of Florence and Siena (2004), The Premodern Teenager: Youth in Society, 1150-1650 (2002), and The Cultural Politics of Duke Cosimo I de' Medici (2001), among other works.