We are currently participating in the online edition of October Art Week.
Watch the opening event Art and the New Digital Reality, a panel discussion featuring Robert Simon and other colleagues in the Old Masters world..
Fig Leaves to Photoshop, and a lot in between: Willful Alterations of Art across the Ages
The Visual Artists Rights Act protects artist’s works from “distortion, mutilation, or modification that would prejudice the author's honor or reputation.” But what happens when the artist is no longer around to notice or object to such changes? This talk will examine the long history of alterations to works of art done in the name of prudery, religiosity, changing taste, personal animosity, politics, and commercial gain. A review of paintings and sculpture from antiquity through the Renaissance, and into the twentieth century, that have been willfully distorted and perverted will provide a sobering and occasionally humorous cautionary tale on the permanence of the artist's vision.
Part of the Winter Lecture Series
Finding the Savior: the Saga of Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi.
Presented by Dr. Robert Simon
Wednesday, February 13 at 6:15 pm at the
Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte
Katharina-von-Bora-Straße 10, 80333 Munich Germany
Part of the series “Leonardo 500”
