Loeb Lecture

James Loeb Lecture: Michael Viktor Schwarz

Giotto without Vasari

Vasari's Giotto text is largely fictional, yet it continues to shape Giotto discourse today. The lecture shows how the Giotto image presents itself if one consistently disregards Vasari and uses the sources and accessible contexts of the 14th century as a basis. The difference between the Renaissance and the Trecento Giotto will also be discussed.

Michael Viktor Schwarz has been a full professor of art history at the University of Vienna since 1998. He has just completed the third volume of his Giottus Pictor project, dedicated to Giotto's afterlife, which will be published in 2020.

In addition to the James Loeb Fellowship for the Classical Tradition in Art and Architecture, the Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte, in cooperation with the James Loeb Gesellschaft e. V. and the Harvard Club München e. V., hosts an annual lecture in honor of the American patron James Loeb.

11/13/2019 from 7:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.

Central Institute for Art History, Reading Room Library, 1st Floor, Katharina-von-Bora-Strasse 10, 80333 Munich, Germany.