A lecture by Leanne Warawa
In Florence, you cannot fail to notice that Annunciations are everywhere. They appear on carved door panels, as the subject of altar pieces, in monasteries, displayed in museums, or peeking out from illuminated manuscripts. This lecture considers the immense challenge artists faced in their own time attempting to recreate the meeting of the eternal and the temporal, that deeply spiritual, psychological, divine yet very human moment. And is it possible that these Annunciations exercise agency over us, the modern viewer, today?
Leanne was raised in Vancouver and has a BA in Psychology, a Law Degree, and an MA in Art History all from the University of British Columbia. Over many visits to Florence, she developed a passion for Renaissance Annunciations - which she found compelling and oddly relevant…and wanted to know why.
If you are in Florence and would like to attend the lecture in person at the British Institute Library, please register here or send an email to bif@britishinstitute.it
The registration fee is 15 Euro per person.
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This lecture is sponsored by Lucy and Andrew Linzee Gordonz