Dr. William Wallace
Michelangelo: Artist and Aristocrat
Do we really need a new biography of Michelangelo? Is there anything left to say? William E. Wallace, an internationally recognized expert on Michelangelo, will speak about the challenges and excitement of writing a modern biography of the famous Renaissance artist. Dr. Wallace offers a substantially new view of Michelangelo, who was not only a great sculptor, painter, architect, engineer, and poet but also an aristocrat who believed in the ancient and noble origins of his family. Imagine Rome in 1496 or 1550, or in the marble quarries in 1521. Dr. Wallace will take us there.
Dr. William Wallace received his PhD in Art History from Columbia University in 1983 and in the same year joined the faculty of Washington University in St. Louis. He is the inaugural holder of the Barbara Murphy Bryant Distinguished Professor of Art History in the Department of Art History & Archaeology. Professor Wallace has published extensively on Renaissance art, including more than 80 articles and essays and six books on Michelangelo. Dr. Wallace is the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships and has been a principal consultant for two BBC television programs on Michelangelo. His new biography, Michelangelo: The Artist, the Man and His Times, has just been published.
When and where to hear this lecture: Thursday, January 13, 2011, at 10:00 A.M. at the Lakeview Museum, 1125 W. Lake Ave., Peoria, Illinois.
Other programs in the Fine Arts Society's 2010-2011 Lecture series: "Playing with Pictures: The Art of Victorian Photocollage" with
Miranda Hofelt, "The Art of John James Audubon" with
Alan Gehret, "Architecture Vs. Art: The Era of the Iconic Art Museum" with Larry Shiner, "Frank Peyraud and local landscape" with
Wendy Greenhouse, "Significant Others in Art: Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner" with Janet Clanton and "Perspectives on His Art" with
Preston Jackson.
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