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Raphael: the Making of a Master, a Webinar by Davide Gasparotto

Raphael: the Making of a Master, a Webinar by Davide Gasparotto, Senior Curator of Paintings at The J. Paul Getty Museum – Los Angeles

Wednesday, July 8 at 8pm (CT)

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Presented by the Italian Cultural Institute of Los Angeles, in collaboration with the Italian Cultural Institutes of Chicago, San Francisco, New York, Montreal, Toronto & Washington D.C.

On April 6th, 1520, Raffaello Sanzio, one of the geniuses of the Renaissance, died in Rome. On the occasion of the 500th anniversary of his death, while we wait for the houses of culture to reopen and to be able to see works of art live again, the network of Italian Cultural Institutes (IIC) in the US and Canada will celebrate the Master through online multimedia initiatives.

Over the course of his short but unprecedented career, Raphael painted the image of the Virgin and Child many times and in different iterations. In this lecture Davide Gasparotto, Senior Curator of Paintings at the Getty, illustrates how Raphael was able to infuse new life into a traditional subject, exploring the artist’s creative process and his intense dialogue with contemporary painters, from Perugino to Leonardo da Vinci.

Davide Gasparotto is Senior Curator and Head of the Paintings Department, and Chair, Curatorial Affairs at the J. Paul Getty Museum. A native of Bassano del Grappa, Italy, he studied the History of Art and Classical Archaeology at the University of Pisa and the Scuola Normale Superiore. He was the Director of the Fondazione Piero della Francesca in Sansepolcro from 1996 to 1998. Afterword he spent 12 years as a curator at the National Gallery of Parma and the Soprintendenza ai Beni Artistici e Storici di Parma e Piacenza. In this capacity he was responsible for the preservation of the cultural heritage in the province of Piacenza (Il Collegio Alberoni di Piacenza. Guida alle collezioni, 2003; Il tondo di Botticelli a Piacenza. Indagini storiche e tecniche, 2006;) and he collaborated on several major exhibitions organized by the National Gallery of Parma (Parmigianino, 2003; Correggio, 2008). From 2012 to 2014, he was Director of the Galleria Estense in Modena, where he oversaw the complete restoration of the museum and redisplay of the collection after a major earthquake that took place in May 2012. In December 2014 he was appointed as Senior Curator of Paintings at the Getty Museum.

His research interests include painting, sculpture and the decorative arts of the Renaissance, the rediscovery of classical antiquity between the Middle Ages and the eighteenth century, and the history of collecting. At the Getty he curated Louis Style. French Frames 1610-1792 (2015, with Gene Karraker and Anne Woollett), The Shimmer of Gold: Giovanni di Paolo in Renaissance Siena (2016, with Bryan Keene and Yvonne Szafran), and most recently two acclaimed exhibitions, Giovanni Bellini: Landscapes of Faith in Renaissance Venice (2017-18) and Pontormo: Miraculous Encounters (2019, with Bruce Edelstein). He acquired for the museum major paintings by Parmigianino, Bronzino, Orazio Gentileschi, Joseph Wright of Derby, François-André Vincent, Jean-Antoine Watteau, Quentin Metsys, Vilhelm Hammershøi, and Giovanni Segantini.

The event is organized by the Italian Cultural Institute of Los Angeles with the Italian Cultural Institutes in Chicago, Montreal, New York, San Francisco, Toronto & Washington D.C on the occasion of the 500th anniversary of Raphael, #Raphael500.

To stay informed about the #Raffaello500 Program, follow the Italian Cultural Institutes in the US and Canada (IIC Chicago, IIC Los Angeles, IIC Montreal, IIC New York, IIC Toronto, IIC San Francisco, IIC Washington) on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.

Registration required.  Kindly register at this link.

  • Organizzato da: IIC Los Angeles