Reni

Talk: The Mirror of Painting in Renaissance Art - Dr Genevieve Warwick

Tuesday 28 February, 19:00 Theatre 2, Roland Levinksy Building, Plymouth University £6/£4.20/Friends free Discounts available via the Artory App and free to Plymouth University students via SPiA

Dr Warwick, Reader in History of Art for Edinburgh College of Art at the University of Edinburgh, explores the key pictorial development of Renaissance art as an understanding of painting as a mirror reflection of the visible world. The motif of the mirror within the painting would become a visual metaphor of the art and skill of painting, from Van Eyck’s Arnolfini portrait to Velazquez’s...

Talk: Whiteout: Self-Awareness And Self-Reflexivity In Guido Reni's Non-Finito

Tuesday 14 February, 19:00 Theatre 2, Roland Levinksy Building, Plymouth University £6/£4.20/Friends free Discounts available via the Artory App and free to Plymouth University students via SPiA

Dr Lorenzo Pericolo, Associate Professor for History of Art at University of Warwick

Dr Lorenzo explores the life and work of Guido Reni (1575-1642). In the final years of his successful career, the Bolognese painter and compulsive gambler was swamped in debt. In contracting or reimbursing debts, he would offer his labour and work as guarantee of payment. The myriad of sketched-out...