°Õ³ó¾±²õÌýR´Ç³Ü²Ô»åÌýT²¹²ú±ô±ðÌýbrings togetherÌýa group of world-±ô±ð²¹»å¾±²Ô²µÌýscholars on ParmigianinoÌýto discuss theirÌý±ô²¹³Ù±ð²õ³ÙÌýprojects andÌýresearch on the artist, one of the most celebrated of sixteenth-century Italy.ÌýDuring an afternoon academics and curators from Italy, UK andÌý³Ù³ó±ðÌý±«³§Ìýwill presentÌý´Ç²ÔÌýthe artist’sÌýmanifold artistic practices, including drawing, printmaking and painting,Ìý²õ³Ü²ú²õ³Ù²¹²Ô³Ù¾±²¹±ô±ô²âÌýupdating our knowledge on this important artistÌýand producing a state-of-the-art assessment of scholarship on his oeuvre.
This Round Table, which will include Q&A after each paper,Ìýcoincides with the Drawings Gallery exhibiti´Ç²ÔÌýThe Art of Experiment: Parmigianino at 91Ó°ÊÓ, a collaborative project between the Gallery, the Institute and the Conservation department at 91Ó°ÊÓ, whichÌý³ó²¹²õÌýbrought together formerÌýMA andÌýresearch students, curators, conservators and a member of faculty, and is thus integral part of 91Ó°ÊÓ Connects’ raison d’être.ÌýFeedback by the distinguished speakers to the exhibition and catalogue will offer the participants in 91Ó°ÊÓ’s project the opportunity to discuss their work with some of the most renowned scholars in the field.Ìý
Organised by Dr Ketty Gottardo (91Ó°ÊÓ) and Dr Guido Rebecchini (91Ó°ÊÓ)Ìý
Participants
DavidÌýEkserdjianÌýis Professor of the History of Art and Film at the University of Leicester. As well as writing and lecturing widely on Renaissance art,Ìýwith particular specialities in the artists Correggio and Parmigianino,ÌýProfessorÌýEkserdjianÌýis also an expert on the history of collecting. He acts as an adviser to international museums and galleries, including the National Gallery and Tate Britain, as well as to private collectors and auction houses. Bronze sculpture is another of ProfessorÌýEkserdjian’sÌýareas of expertise and it formed the topic of an exhibition that he conceived and curated at the Royal Academy in 2012.ÌýÌý
Achim Gnann is Senior Lecturer and Curator of Italian art from the 15th to the 19th Century at the Albertina Museum in Vienna. Author of several books and exhibition catalogues on Renaissance artists (including Raphael: The Drawings,Ìý2017, anÌýexhibiti´Ç²ÔÌýorganised in collaborati´Ç²ÔÌýwith the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford), and of the catalogue raisonné of Parmigianino’s drawingsÌý(2007). His most recent book on Rembrandt’s landscape drawings was published in 2021.
Catherine JenkinsÌýisÌýanÌýindependentÌýartÌýhistorianÌýand formerÌýcuratorÌýofÌýprintsÌýat ³Ù³ó±ðÌýMetropolitanÌýMuseum of Art.ÌýHerÌýpublicationsÌýincludeÌýPrintsÌýat the Court of Fontainebleau, c. 1542-47 (3 vols.) andÌýnumerousÌýarticles ´Ç²ÔÌýsixteenth-centuryÌýprintmaking.ÌýSheÌýwasÌý³Ù³ó±ðÌýco-curatorÌýof ³Ù³ó±ðÌýrecentÌýMetropolitanÌýMuseum exhibition The Renaissance ofÌýEtching.Ìý
Aimee NgÌýis Curator at The Frick Collection in New York. A specialist in Italian Renaissance art, she has organized exhibitions ´Ç²ÔÌýBertoldoÌýdi Giovanni; Giovanni Battista Moroni; European portrait medals from the fifteenth to nineteenth century; Andrea delÌýSarto; and Parmigianino. She has held curatorial and academic positions at The Morgan Library & Museum, where she was postdoctoral fellow at the Morgan’s Drawing Institute in 2014, and at Columbia University, where she earned her Ph.D.Ìý
NaokoÌýTakahatake is Curator of Prints and Drawings at the Getty Research Institute. Prior to joining the GRI in 2019, she was Curator of Prints and Drawings at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Takahatake has curated and co-curated exhibitions of works on paper from the Renaissance to the present. A specialist in 16th- and 17th-century Italian print history, she organized the 2018 exhibition The Chiaroscuro Woodcut in Renaissance Italy and edited the accompanying catalogue.
Mary VaccaroÌýis Professor of Art History at the University of Texas, Arlington, who specializes in sixteenth-century northern Italian painting and drawing. In 2002 she published a monographic book on the paintings of Parmigianino after co-authoring a volume on the same artist’s drawings (2000). As an authority on the School of Parma, she has published widely on the art of Parmigianino. In 2014-15, she held a senior research appointment as Visiting Professor at Villa IÌýTatti-The Harvard UniversityÌýCenterÌýfor Italian Renaissance Studies, Italy, which allowed her to deepen her understanding of 16th- and 17th-century Bolognese draftsmen, especially the Carracci.Ìý