Filarete and the ancient

CYCLE: Reintegrations: from deposits to the visitor's route
SPEAKER: Arnold Nesselrath
DATE: Thursday 27 March, 6 pm

Recovered from the deposits, Filarete's medal depicting Faustina Maggiore and her nuptial pact with Emperor Antoninus Pius is an exemplary work of the confrontation with antiquity experienced by the Florentine artist at the time he was working in Rome for Pope Eugene IV on the monumental bronze door of St. Peter's Basilica. The cataloguing of the exemplar is due to Dr. Giulia Zaccariotto.

Arnold Nesselrath studied art history, archaeology and classical philology at the universities of Mainz, London and Bonn, obtaining his doctorate with a thesis on the ‘Fossombroner Skizzenbuch’. Since 1981, he has directed the project ‘Census of Antique Works of Art and Architecture Known in the Renaissance’, initially at the Warburg Institute and later at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. In 1995, he was appointed director of the Department of Byzantine, Medieval and Modern Art of the Vatican Museums. Since 1996, he has been Professor of Medieval and Modern Art History at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, with a focus on the Nachleben of Antiquity.

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