Leonardo Da Vinci, Detail The Virgin of the Rocks, about 1491/2-9 and 1506-8.
Week Three: Artistic Responses
It is now recognised that early Netherlandish painting was not only widely admired in Renaissance Italy, but that it had a transformative effect on Italian art itself. Learn about the reception of Netherlandish painting in Italy in this short course with V&A Course Director, Dr Paula Nuttall, an authority on the subject.
Increasing familiarity with Netherlandish paintings from about 1470, brought about by the travels of artworks and artists, resulted in a wide range of responses from Italian painters, affecting almost every aspect of their artistic production, from the gradual assimilation of the oil technique, to the appropriation of Netherlandish landscape forms and portrait types, and the use of novel Netherlandish devotional and secular imagery, including the erotic female nude.
In this last lecture we consider these diverse responses, looking at artists such as Piero della Francesca, Antonello da Messina, Giovanni Bellini, Domenico Ghirlandaio and Leonardo da Vinci. By 1500 the lessons learnt from Netherlandish painting had been absorbed into the Italian visual language, as exemplified in the art of the young Raphael, and Michelangelo himself.
This is an online event hosted on Zoom which can be watched live, or on-demand for three weeks. You will receive your link to access the event in your email confirmation and the on-demand link after the event ends. Bookings close one hour before the event.