The Director of the Italian Cultural Institute Silvio Marchetti

is pleased to invite you to "Michelangelo and the Medici",
a lecture by Edward Goldberg

Thursday, March 21st, 6:00pm at the Italian Cultural Institute

500 N Michigan Avenue, Suite 1450 Chicago, IL 60611

Edward Goldberg, a specialist in Italian history and culture, will discuss the complex relationship between Michelangelo, a supremely gifted sculptor, painter, architect and poet, and members of the wealthy and politically powerful Medici family, who were also major art patrons and collectors.
Michelangelo created some of his most memorable works for the Medici, including the Medici tombs and the Laurentian Library in Florence, but he also worked for their enemies. Goldberg will trace Michelangelo's relationship with the Medici and illuminate the turbulent world of Renaissance art, politics and patronage.
Goldberg has published numerous books and articles in areas ranging from Medici art collecting and patronage, to cultural relations between Italy and Spain, to Florentine Jewish history and culture. He received his doctorate from Oxford, taught at Harvard and founded the Medici Archive Project. He has made important archival discoveries, including 200 letters from Benedetto Blanis, a Jew in the Florentine ghetto in the early 17th century, and L'Ebreo ("The Jew"), an unpublished five-act comedy from 1613 by Michelangelo Buonarroti the Younger. In 2012, Goldberg won the International Flaiano Prize for Italian Culture for his book Jews and Magic in Medici Florence: The Secret World of Benedetto Blanis.

Reservations kindly suggested.
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