Sunday March 22
3:00pm EDT
Boca Raton Museum of Art, 501 Plaza Real, Boca Raton, 33432, United States
LECTURE SERIES: ART CONVERSATIONS XXXIIMarch 22, 2026 Boca Raton Museum of Art, Wolgin Education CenterHost: Dr. Ena Heller, Executive Director, Boca Raton Museum of Art Friends of the Uffizi Galleries Education Committee Chairs: Linda Civerchia Balent & Linda Tufo Prog......More
LECTURE SERIES: ART CONVERSATIONS XXXIIMarch 22, 2026 Boca Raton Museum of Art, Wolgin Education CenterHost: Dr. Ena Heller, Executive Director, Boca Raton Museum of Art Friends of the Uffizi Galleries Education Committee Chairs: Linda Civerchia Balent & Linda Tufo Program: Dr. Emily Fenechel: “A man within a woman”: Vittoria Colonna And Michelangelo’s FriendshipMichelangelo met the noble widow and poet Vittoria Colonna sometime in the late 1530s in Rome. An intense spiritual and intellectual relationship blossomed between the unlikely pair as they exchanged letters, sonnets, and drawings for nearly a decade until Colonna’s death in 1547. This talk will explore their relationship and the works of art that resulted from it as Michelangelo sought to honor the friend he called “A man within a woman.” Lecture Tickets are free for Friends of the Uffizi Members.Please RSVP to: [email protected] Lecture Tickets may be purchased from the Boca MuseumTICKETS: https://experience.bocamuseum.org/events/1a8dd8ca-a9c6-bb72-173a-b7dbae031419 Dr. Emily Fenichel is Associate Professor of Art History at Florida Atlantic University. She is the author of Michelangelo’s Art of Devotion in the Age of Reform, which was published by Cambridge University Press in 2023. She has also published articles on various aspects of Michelangelo’s life and career, from the Pietà to the artist’s portrait medal. Currently, she is researching and writing her second book on Michelangelo’s images of women.
Boca Raton Museum of Art, 501 Plaza Real, Boca Raton, 33432, United States
