On Saturday, March 9th, 2024, Civitella Ranieri will open its doors for the lecture The point of infinity: Piero della Francesca’s Perugia altarpiece by Professor Frank Dabell (DG 2019).
Piero’s polyptych for the nuns of Sant’Antonio in Perugia (now in the Galleria Nazionale dell’Umbria) is often sidelined by pilgrims on the “Piero trail,” yet it contains one of his most engaging, luminous demonstrations of perspective. Frank Dabell will speak about the artist’s perfect balance of mathematics and spirituality, and ponder on the fifteenth century’s evolving search for how to simultaneously describe the tangible and the eternal.
The lecture will be held in the Castle starting at 5:30 PM.
Reservations are free but mandatory as there are limited seats available.
Frank Dabell
Art History, UK
Frank Dabell is a British art historian, born in Paris and raised in Rome, where he teaches for Temple University and the University of Rome. After Shrewsbury School he graduated from Merton College, Oxford, and was a Fellow of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Frank is an authority on the Renaissance, especially Piero della Francesca, and was a member of the advisory committee for the conservation of Piero’s Resurrection in Sansepolcro. He was Director’s Guest at Civitella in September 2019.
Saturday, March 9th, 2024
5:15 PM Welcome cocktail
5:30 PM Lecture
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