Latest Past Events

Lecture: Aging Gracefully. Restoring Carpaccio’s Saint Ursula Cycle

Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò (NYU) 24 West 12th Street, New York City

A lecture by Melissa Conn, Director Venice Office, Save Venice Inc. How to best care for Carpaccio’s princess bride has occupied conservation professionals for nearly 500 years, from the first documented restoration treatment in 1521, to Save Venice’s current conservation efforts. Now housed in the Accademia Galleries, this 15th-century narrative cycle of nine canvases illustrating the story of Saint Ursula suffers…

Mitchell B. Merback: Dürer’s “Melancholia I” and Therapeutic Images Before Modernity

Deutsches Haus NYU 42 Washington Mews, New York City

Deutsches Haus at NYU and the NYU Department of German present "Dürer's Melencolia I and Therapeutic Images Before Modernity." In dialogue with Professor Shira Brisman, Mitchell B. Merback discusses the concepts and inspiration behind his new book, Perfection's Therapy: An Essay on Albrecht Dürer's Melancholia I (Zone Books, 2017), placing Albrecht Dürer's famously inscrutable engraving, "Melencolia I," at the intersection of Renaissance art, medicine, and philosophy. About Perfection's Therapy…

Free

House of Secrets

Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò (NYU) 24 West 12th Street, New York City

The Many Lives of a Florentine Palazzo House of Secrets The Many Lives of a Florentine Palazzo (2019, Bloomsbury) by Allison Levy, Brown University Author Allison Levy in conversation with: Leonard Barkan, Princeton University Gerry Milligan, College of Staten Island/CUNY GC Alexander Stille, Columbia University House of Secrets tells the remarkable story of Palazzo Rucellai from behind its celebrated façade.…