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Alexander Nagel
The Scales of European Painting
2023
Academic Chair
The Scales of European Painting
2023
Alexander Nagel
Scale—not measurable size, but the sense of relation to size—fundamentally shapes relations between people and material works of art. In the case of painting, scale is a primary means by which depicted worlds meet the viewer’s experience, suggesting possible new configurations of social, political, and environmental relations. During the period 1300-1600, European painting underwent a series of radical reinventions—the emergence of new picture categories, new roles for drawing and new modes of scalable image-replication, new pictorial techniques and supports, as well as new approaches to virtual space—developments that produced continual experimentation with scale, as painters attempted to coordinate new modalities of painting with the viewers and real environments they served.
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- Schedule
- The times shown in the programme correspond to Spanish time.
- Recipients
- University students, researchers, professionals and the general public
- Location
- Auditorium of the Museo Nacional del Prado
- Price
- Free. Limited capacity
- Organization
- by Museo Nacional del Prado
- Holder of the Chair 2023
- Alexander Nagel
- Contact
- centro.estudios@museodelprado.es
Activities
Lectures of the Cátedra del Prado. The Scales of European Painting
November 2, 16, 23 & 30, 2023
Seminars of the Prado Museum Chair. The Scales of European Painting
November 3, 14, 17 and 24, and December 1, 2023
Cátedra del Prado Colloquium. Reflections on Historiographical Studies
Monday November 20, 2023
Activity
Holder of the Prado Museum Chair 2023
Alexander Nagel
Alexander Nagel is Craig Hugh Smyth Professor of Fine Arts at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. He teaches courses and writes mostly about late medieval and early modern European art. His work is consistently concerned with how visual art allows humans to see through time and find orientation in the world, as well as what happens when models and artifacts of visual art cross temporal and geographical boundaries. His 2000 book Michelangelo and the Reform of Art was the winner of the Renaissance Society of America’s Gordan book prize, and his 2011 book The Controversy of Renaissance Art was the winner of the College Art Association’s Morey book prize. Anachronic Renaissance, co-authored with Christopher Wood, appeared in 2010 and was published in Spanish translation as Renacimiento anacronista in 2017 by Akal publishers. Amerasia, a study of European worldviews in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries co-authored with Elizabeth Horodowich, will be published in late 2023 by Zone Books.
Since 2022 he has served as chief editor of the journal I Tatti Studies, published by the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies at Villa I Tatti.