Aimee Ng: "Truth and Fiction in Italian Renaissance Portraiture"

[@dannsherstone1037]

Probably one of your most talented speakers!

[@ogieogie]

I always enjoy Ng's lectures.

[@kevinchambers4848]

Ms. Ng is one of the Frick's greatest treasures. A brilliant talk on a brilliant artist.

[@RP-mm9ie]

Best speaker ,more by Ng plz.

[@lili4833]

resourceful, intriguing and I fell in love with her deep knowledge about the subject. A talent herself indeed!

[@gloriapinskerportraits4801]

I love Aimee's lectures. The painting of the lady in pink brocade is awe-inspiring! Not only is the clothing superb, but her skin is so lifelike. Truly amazing

[@dianarolph1770]

Very enjoyable & informative- thank you!

[@waynem7634]

This was truly a superb and scholarly presentation on the works of Moroni by Ms Ng. Thank you.

[@joanwalters4741]

Brilliant, thank you.

[@francescoperri6943]

Ms Ng.....this is an amazing lecture...thank you.

[@dawnjackson1802]

Wonderful information, thank you.

[@michaeljohnangel6359]

Ms Ng is brilliant. I particularly love the way she implies the stupidity of the critics who do not themselves paint. As a successful portrait painter I have to point out that people who do not paint should not write about paintings-it would be asinine if I were to write a book on tennis and the tennis players' styles, for example. A big problem is that the art historians only write about the SUBJECT of the painting, not about the painting itself; they do not say anything about how is it designed, what is its value scheme, what is its hue scheme and how does that conform to the value scheme …? Where are the flow-through lines? What is the rhythmic relationships between the S-curves, the C-curves and the straight lines? What about the compositional grid? Art history is about art history (it's about who said what), not about the art.

[@e.h.5129]

Great talk, esp. liked the bit on brocate and how its seemingly hyper naturalist portrayal is more what we might call today impressionist. But as usual, Americans and european geography - "Trent near the German border." Yes, who doesn't know the famous German/Italian border ........

[@equinnknox]

Ah, well, easy to misunderstand geography when it has never changed ever in the course of history. But she is correct (as an expert would be) that Austria was part of Germany and the Holy Roman Empire and shared a border with what would become Italy close to Trento. We even have extant maps from the time.

[@jamesallison4875]

Ms. Ng’s talks are always wonderful. It is difficult to conflate the magnificent portrait of the tailor with any of his other works. It’s really on another level entirely. He must have had this one ‘inspiration’?

[@lilliannieswender266]

This was extremely interesting, thank you.

[@celesteaida48]

Bravissima signora Ng. Informatissima ❤️❤️

[@Riderules73]

After a year in Lockdown the first thing that stood out to me is the crowded room with people not wearing a mask. I know the talk is from 2019 but I'm more puzzled how this talk now sits firmly in the PRE COVID half of our lives.

[@melvillehayes6305]

Brilliant schlarship and preeesentation !

[@jamesnova9953]

In the full-length portrait of Isotta, her chair appears to be floating in air.

Fantastic lecture. Thanks!

[@Trovies84]

Good job

[@leststoner]

It's no myth.

[@michaeljohnangel6359]

Let me praise Ms Ng again, this time for her insistance that portrait painters INTERPRET (i.e. modify) their sitters. The art historians who state that Moroni just copied his sitters are idiots. Take any close-up of a head by Moroni-if I were to tell you that it is a photo of a person, you would not believe me for a moment. the same applies to Caravaggio, and yet many art historians write that he's realistic!! The only three rules in painting are: simplify, simplify, but don't simplify too much!

[@ritabiro5105]

I am happy to bee ablr to get aqvantednted

[@ritabiro5105]

With Moronies paintes I liked the cuple the men in pink and his wife the nooble women.Thanks to schow

[@fainatselnik267]

Very interesting painter with intriguing selection of works. Presenter is nice in the format of Cocktails with Curator but one hour lecture lacks depths on the subjects - she is passionate but rather arbitrarily and not nuanced. Her eyes are much better than the narrative. Also showing original work and compare it with black and white illustrations from the book even authoritarian is truly unfair judgement on quality of the portraits.