Who Created Florence?
Making a Renaissance City

Webinar

Dr. Nicholas Terpstra
Emilio Goggio Chair in Italian Studies (Interim)
Department of Italian Studies
St. Michael’s College | University of Toronto

Thursday, April 29 | 7:00PM EDT

ZOOM Webinar | Free Event

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Florence stands out for many as embodying the peak of Italian Renaissance creativity. But what made it the artistic centre that we see today? Many Renaissance cities had artists, architects, authors, and musicians, but few have the reputation that Florence continues to enjoy as the place to go in order to immerse yourself in the culture of the Renaissance. To understand why, we have to go beyond the artists themselves and look at those who later collected, conserved, and (re)created the art and architecture we see today. This lecture will move from a fifteenth-century creator to a sixteenth-century collector, an eighteenth-century conservor, and a group of nineteenth-century expatriates in order to answer the question of “who created Florence” as the modern Renaissance capital that we see today.