IL GOLFO DI NAPOLI E OLTRE: ARTE E CULTURA DALL’ANTICHITÀ AI GIORNI NOSTRI

THE BAY OF NAPLES AND BEYOND: ART AND CULTURE FROM ANTIQUITY TO THE PRESENT

A summer lecture series presented digitally by the Edith O’Donnell Institute of Art History and the Centro per la Storia dell'Arte e dell'Architettura delle Città Portuali / La Capraia

The Edith O’Donnell Institute of Art History at the University of Texas at Dallas and the Centro per la Storia dell’Arte e dell’Architettura delle Città Portuali in Naples are pleased to present a digital Summer Lecture Series exploring art and architecture on the Bay of Naples from antiquity to today.




9 July 2020

PAOLO GIULIERINI

Director, MANN Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli

Il MANN e la sua comunità

Paolo Giulerini, Director of Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli, introduces one of the world's great collections of ancient art, and describes the museum’s work to redefine its role as a center of cultural encounter and debate within a broad community of visitors from Naples and around the globe. This lecture is in Italian.

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Filmed by the O'Donnell Institute, 9 July 2020



16 July 2020

BIANCA DE DIVITIIS

Associate Professor of Art History, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II

Naples and beyond: patterns of Renaissance

Bianca de Divitiis, Associate Professor of Art History, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, reframes our geographies of Renaissance architecture by focusing on the Italian south and its complex dynamics of style, antiquarianism, and artistic collaboration, with particular emphasis on the interplay between the local and the global. This lecture is in English.

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Filmed by the O'Donnell Institute, 16 July 2020



23 July 2020

ANDREA VILIANI

Head and Curator, CRRI-Castello di Rivoli Research Institute

La collezione di Arte Contemporanea del Museo di Capodimonte:
i suoi artisti, opere, mostre e mecenati

Andrea Viliani, Head and Curator of the CRRI-Castello di Rivoli Research Institute, tells the story of the formation of the contemporary art collection at the Museo di Capodimonte through its major artworks, artists, and patrons.

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Filmed by the O'Donnell Institute, 23 July 2020