JAC Talk: Strong Women in Renaissance Italy
Sunday, December 3, 2023
3:30 pm
This event is sponsored in memory of Professor Mark Steinberg Weil
Free Admission
Join Marietta Cambareri, Senior Curator of European Sculpture at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, for an insider look into their current exhibition, Strong Women in Renaissance Italy.
Come hear about how Women in Renaissance Italy overcame challenges and barriers to equity, education, and influence, and how these women became patrons and artists delivering spectacular artworks across the spectrum of sculpture, paintings, ceramics, textiles, fashion accessories, illustrated books, and prints.
Image: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Artist unknown, pair of women’s platform shoes (chopines), Italian (Venetian), 1590–1610. Tooled leather over wood, with metallic braid. The Elizabeth Day McCormick Collection.
JAC Talk is a regular program hosted by the JAC to bring together artists and creative minds to share their stories with the Jamestown community and beyond.
About the Speaker:
Marietta Cambareri is Senior Curator of European Sculpture and Jetskalina H. Phillips Curator of Judaica at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, where she has worked since 2001. She curated Della Robbia: Sculpting with Color in Renaissance Florence (2016-17), at the MFA, Boston and the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, and is the principal author of the book that accompanied that show. She is the curator of Strong Women in Renaissance Italy, at the MFA though January 7, 2024, and is the author of the accompanying book. She holds a Ph.D. from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, and before joining the MFA, she worked at the Getty Museum in Los Angeles.