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Talk is the Carol P. Dorian ’79 Memorial Lecture in Art History
Art historian Irving Lavin will deliver the Carol P. Dorian ’79 Memorial Lecture in Art History on “Going for Baroque: Observations on the Post-Modern Fold” at 4:10 p.m. Tuesday, March 25, in the Williams Center for the Arts room 108.
The talk is free and open to the public. A reception will follow. For more information, contact Diane Ahl, Rothkopf Professor of Art History, at x5358 or email.
Lavin is one of America’s most distinguished art historians. The recipient of a Medal of Honor from the City of Rome in acknowledgement of his many contributions, he has written extensively on the history of art from late antiquity to modern times. His numerous books on Roman and Florentine sculpture and architecture include Bernini and the Crossing of St. Peter’s (1968); Bernini and the Unity of the Visual Arts (1980); Past-Present: Essays on Historicism in Art from Donatello to Picasso (1993); Santa Maria del Fiore: The Cathedral of Florence and the Pregnant Virgin (1999); and Caravaggio and La Tour: The Occult Light of God (2000).
Lavin has recently delivered the A.W. Mellon Lectures at the National Gallery of Art. He is the foremost living authority on the works of Gian Lorenzo Bernini, and has published important articles on St. Peter’s, Caravaggio, Michelangelo, Modernism, and Post-Modernism.