2018-01-08-noticia-FYL-ciclo-prado
Francisco Calvo Serraller inaugurates tomorrow the lecture series of the Prado Museum at the University of Madrid.
The second edition of the series will analyze some of the geniuses that marked the 16th century.
The Friends of the Prado Museum Foundation and the School of Philosophy and Letters of the University of Navarra are organizing for the second year in a row the lecture series of the Prado Museum.
Under the degree scroll "The Age of Geniuses (16th century)", the Theater of the Museum of the University of Navarra will host for four consecutive Tuesdays at 7 p.m. a series of lectures on some of the figures that marked that era, which marked a turning point in the traditional conception of art from both a symbolic and formal point of view.
The series will be inaugurated tomorrow, Tuesday, January 9, by Francisco Calvo Serraller, Full Professor of Art History at the Complutense University of Madrid and director of the course, who will speak about the birth of the geniuses and the Mannerist artistic theory.
On Tuesday, January 16, Fernando Marías, Full Professor of Art History at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, will give a lecture at lecture entitled "Last Raphael: architectures and paintings". On Tuesday, January 23, it will be the turn of El Greco, which will be analyzed by Leticia Ruiz, head of department of Spanish Painting of the Renaissance and Early Naturalism of the Prado Museum.
The cycle will be closed on January 30 by Manuela Mena, head of Conservation of 18th Century Painting and Goya at the Prado Museum, who will offer a session whose degree scroll will be "Why Correggio is different?".
This cycle has the sponsorship of Viscofán and the partnership of Fundación Diario de Navarra, and is part of the existing relationship between the School of Philosophy and Letters and the Fundación de Amigos del Museo del Prado, through the practices of students and activities developed by professors of the area of Art History.