Dante sponsored lecture: Mico’s Path to Heaven: The Frescoes of the Guidalotti Chapel
Mico’s Path to Heaven: The Frescoes of the Guidalotti Chapel.
Description: Around 1365, after the ravages of the Black Death, the patrician Buonamico (“Mico”) Guidalotti commissioned the painter Andrea da Firenze to decorate a capacious funerary chapel along the cloister of the Dominican church of Santa Maria Novella. The frescoes cover numerous subjects, but this talk will focus on the frescos of the Way of Salvation and The Triumph of Thomas Aquinas. The frescoes can be seen to be Dominican propaganda synergized with the celebration of the Order’s most famous theologian. The aims and hopes of the patron, Mico, will also be discussed.
Free Lecture followed by Q&A
Bio: Allan Langdale is an art and architectural historian, photographer, filmmaker, and travel writer who received his Ph.D. in art history from UC Santa Barbara. Allan has taught courses in Italian Renaissance, Greek, Roman, Byzantine, Indian, and Islamic art and architecture and currently teaches art history at UC Santa Cruz. He has written the definitive architectural field guide to the little-known region of Turkish Cyprus, In a Contested Realm (2012) and also made the award-winning documentary The Stones of Famagusta: the Story of a Forgotten City (2008). His travel books include Palermo: Travels in the City of Happiness (2015) and The Hippodrome of Istanbul / Constantinople: An Illustrated Handbook of its History (2019). He also has a travel blog at Allan’s Art and Architecture Worlds.
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