Raphael - Matthias Wivel

A Friends of Kenwood Sunday lecture given by Dr Matthias Wivel, of the National Gallery, London.
2020 was the 500th anniversary of the death of Raphael. The National Gallery’s long-awaited exhibition to mark the anniversary will open in April 2022. Raphael packed a phenomenal output into his short life. He was a painter, draughtsman, architect, archaeologist and poet, capturing in his art the human and the divine, love and friendship, learning and power. Although his brief career spanned just two decades and he died at the height of his powers, Raphael shaped the course of Western culture like few artists have before or since.
Dr Matthias Wivel is co-curator of the forthcoming Raphael exhibition, 9 April - 31 July 2022, and Aud Jepsen Curator of Sixteenth-Century Italian Paintings at the National Gallery.
Introduction music: Violin Concerto No. 3 in G Major by WA Mozart. This piece was performed at the Victoria & Albert Museum to mark the re-opening of the Raphael Court (where the Raphael Cartoons (1515-16) hang) in June 2021.
Produced by Friends of Kenwood
www.friendsofkenwood.org.uk

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Grazie

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Great talk, Matthias. Your passion is clear!

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Superb as always from Matthias!

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