The Italian Cultural Institute in Haifa
is pleased to invite you to the second lecture in the series:
Giotto: The Dawn of a New Art
GIOTTO’S INNOVATIVE ART IN THE SCROVEGNI CHAPEL
Presents Dr. Irina Chernetsky, a scholar of the fields of Renaissance art and architecture
Tuesday, 22 April 2025, @ 18:30
ONLINE | Webex & YouTube
Free event, in Hebrew.
To book and receive the link for the Webex meeting, please fill in the REGISTRATION FORM
The fresco cycle in the Scrovegni Chapel in Padua is the most famous surviving work by Giotto di Bondone. In this second lesson we will study the Paduan masterpiece, focusing on the groundbreaking and innovative representation of familiar scenes, and emphasizing the spatial, physical and psychological realism in Giotto’s art. We will also discuss his Madonna’s smile and explore how and why Giotto’s compatriots elevated him to the status of a national hero.
- FREE admission. Online event, in Hebrew.
- To receive the link for the Webex meeting, please fill in the REGISTRATION FORM.
As an alternative, you may follow this lecture online via:
The series | Francesco Petrarca to his friend Giovanni Mandelli, who on his journey from Genoa to Jerusalem, would have stopped in Naples: “If you disembark, don’t miss visiting the king’s chapel [at Castelnuovo], in which the greatest painter of our times, my countryman, has left great monuments of his skill and his genius.” Those Neapolitan masterpieces are lost today, but Assisi, Padova and Florence are “enough” for Dr. Chernetsky to tell us about the genius of someone destined to revolutionize Western art forever. In three episodes.
Free event, in Hebrew.
Tuesday, 22 April 2025, @ 18:30
ONLINE | Webex & YouTube
