Rome as Theater: John Paoletti, lecturer March 7, 2008

Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium

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Rome as Theater
John Paoletti, Professor of Art History, Wesleyan University

Renaissance cities were organized as centers of urban theater, where linked spaces provided rituals of movement for citizens and visitors alike. Nowhere was this truer than in Renaissance- and baroque-era Rome. Architecture, sculpture, painting, and the ephemeral arts of parades and processions tied Rome to its past, and they also marked important moments in its ongoing history and implied an unbroken future for the city as well as its institutions.

This week’s topic:
Michelangelo and Bernini:
Visualizing Power in Sculpture and Architecture

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