Join us Wednesday, October 5 at 6:00 pm at the Castle for ‘The Flagellation of Christ by Piero della Francesca, A Conversation with James Banker & Machtelt Brüggen Israëls.’
James Banker
James Banker is a writer, scholar, researcher, and historian of the Italian Renaissance. His seminal book of ‘Piero, the Artist and the Man’ is based in part on his discovery of recently unearthed significant documents shedding light on Piero della Francesca’s life and work.
Machtelt Brüggen Israëls, Art History, Netherlands
Director’s Guest
Machtelt Brüggen Israëls is an art historian living in Amsterdam and Tuscany. She is a professor of Italian Renaissance Art at the University of Amsterdam and the Università di Firenze. Machtelt held a fellowship at Harvard’s Villa I Tatti, for which she edited books on Sassetta’s masterpiece for Sansepolcro and the Italian paintings in the Berenson Collection. Her monograph on Piero della Francesca was published in London in 2020.
Wednesday, October 5, 2022
Welcome cocktail at 6:00pm
Presentations begin at 6:15pm
Please RSVP here.
The reading will be streamed on our Instagram profile.