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# Sydney J. Freedberg Lectures on Italian Art

The Sydney J. Freedberg Lecture on Italian Art features distinguished scholars present­ing original research. This annual lecture series offered by the National Gallery of Art began in 1997 and is named after the great specialist of Italian art Sydney J. Freedberg (1914–1997). Since 2017, the lecture series has been organized by the Center. Professor Freedberg earned his PhD in 1940 from Harvard University, where he taught for 29 years until he was appointed chief curator of the National Gallery of Art in 1983.

2023Sofonisba Anguissola: Recent Discoveries and DebatesMichael Cole, Columbia University

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2022Michelangelo, Raphael, and the Genius ParadoxCammy Brothers, Northeastern University

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2021“More perfect and excellent than men”: The Women Artists of BolognaBabette Bohn, Texas Christian UniversityWatch (Introduction) Watch (Lecture) Listen

2020Telling the Past Differently: Italian Renaissance Art in the Hands of the BeholderMegan Holmes, University of MichiganWatch Listen

2019Andrea Mantegna’s Stones, Caves, and CloudsGabriele Finaldi, National Gallery, LondonWatch Listen

2018Against TitianStephen J. Campbell, Johns Hopkins University

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2017Sugar and Spice and All Things Nice? Titian’s Portrait of Clarice StrozziBeverly Louise Brown, The Warburg InstituteWatch Listen

 

2016The Aesthetics of Water: Wellheads, Cisterns, and Fountains in the Venetian DominionPatricia Fortini Brown, Princeton UniversityWatch Listen

2015Canova and ColorDavid Bindman, University College LondonWatch Listen

2014Venice 1548: Titian Looking at Tintoretto’s Miracle of the SlaveMiguel Falomir, Museo Nacional del PradoListen (English) Listen (Español)

2013Circa 1515: Leonardo, Raphael, and MichelangeloCarmen C. Bambach, The Metropolitan Museum of ArtListen

2012“Not a painting, but a Vision!”: Raphael's Sistine Madonna Turns Five HundredAndreas Henning, Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen DresdenListen

2011Bernard Berenson and Lorenzo LottoCarl Brandon Strehlke, Philadelphia Museum of ArtListen

2010Thoughts on the CaravaggistiMichael Fried, Johns Hopkins UniversityListen

2009Ghiberti and the Painters of FlorenceKeith Christiansen, The Metropolitan Museum of ArtListen

2008To Live with Myths in Pompeii and BeyondPaul Zanker, Scuola Normale Superiore, PisaListen

2007Aunt Gertrude to Sydney J. Freedberg: My ProvenanceBruce Cole, National Endowment for the Humanities 

2006Modernity is Old: The Landscape of Italy as Seen by the Painters of the Early Nineteenth Century**Anna Ottani Cavina, Università di BolognaListen

2005Illuminated Choral Manuscripts of the Italian RenaissanceJonathan J. G. Alexander, Institute of Fine Arts, New York UniversityListen

2004The Third Italian Renaissance: Art of the Lombard PlainCharles Dempsey, Johns Hopkins UniversityListen

2003Ovid’s *Metamorphoses*in the Art of the Renaissance and Baroque MastersPaul Barolsky, University of VirginiaListen

2002The Turning FigureNicholas Penny, National Gallery of ArtListen

2001Michelangelo and the MediciCaroline Elam, *The Burlington Magazine*, LondonListen

2000The Fashioning of a Public Persona: Duchess Eleonora di Toledo’s Ceremonial Dress and Her Portraits by BronzinoJanet Cox-Rearick, City University of New YorkListen

1999Art and Science in the Drawings of Leonardo da VinciJames S. Ackerman, Harvard University (emeritus)Listen

1998A Carpaccio Masterpiece RediscoveredWilliam R. Rearick, University of Maryland (emeritus)Listen

1997The Young MichelangeloKathleen Weil-Garris Brandt, Institute of Fine Arts, New York UniversityListen

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