Curators’ introduction: The Renaissance Nude
Friday 22 March 2019 11am - 12pm
The Benjamin West Lecture Theatre, Burlington Gardens, Royal Academy of Arts
£10, £6
The Renaissance Nude
Curator Per Rumberg and Assistant Curator Lucy Chiswell introduce The Renaissance Nude, exploring the development of the nude and how it inspired some of the most celebrated works of the Renaissance period.
Organised in collaboration with the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, The Renaissance Nude traces the emergence of the nude across Europe between 1400 and 1530. Featuring paintings as well as jewel-like miniatures and anatomical studies, the exhibition looks at idealised beauty as well as old age, and secular as well as sacred images. Exploring how humanist culture, new artistic attitudes and spiritual beliefs shaped the appearance, meaning and reception of the nude, the exhibition features artists including Albrecht Dürer, Lucas Cranach the Elder, Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo.
Per Rumberg is Curator at the Royal Academy of Arts. He previously worked at the National Gallery, where he was one of the curators of the exhibition Leonardo da Vinci: Painter at the Court of Milan (2011–12). Lucy Chiswell is Assistant Curator at the Royal Academy of Arts.