Announcement: Lecture Michelangelo Summer Term 2021

8 April 2021

In summer term 2021, the Department of Art History of the University of Hamburg will offer a lecture on Michelangelo, whose sculptures were already superlatives of the genre for his contemporaries, an unsurpassable pinnacle of post-medieval art development that also shattered the normative bonds of antiquity. Contemporary art discourse repeatedly revolves around the unlimited creative power of their deified creator and its overwhelming presence to an admiring public. The lecture will consider exemplary works by Michelangelo in the context of 16th-century art literature and in their confrontation with older and contemporary works. Key concepts such as furor, terribilità, nonfinito, morbidezza, and vivacità will be central. The lectures with Frank Fehrenbach and guests will take place live on Wednesdays between April 14 and July 7, 2021, from 5:15 p.m. and 6:45 p.m. and can be streamed via Zoom.

Time: Wednesdays, 5:15-6:45 p.m., start: April 14, 2021
Location: Zoom, registration required

To participate, please register by e-mail with caroline.herfert@uni-hamburg.de