Faculty News – Estelle & Stuart Lingo

Originally posted on 04 Mar 10:

In mid-February, Associate Professors Estelle Lingo and Stuart Lingo traveled to Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee, to give lectures. Professor Stuart Lingo’s talk titled “Michelangelo, Bronzino, and the Status of the Artful Body in Late Renaissance Florence” was part of the Moss Lecture Series. Professor Estelle Lingo spoke as part of the Ruffin Lecture Series and her topic was “Becoming Bernini: The Crossing of St. Peter’s and the Fortune of the Antique at the End of the Renaissance.” She also traveled to Rome in mid-January as an invited participant in an international conference and workshop titled “Bellori’s Terminology: Tradition, Construction, and Usage in his Lives and Art Literature in the Early Modern Period” at the Bibliotheca Hertziana (Max-Planck-Institut fur Kunstgeschichte). Her paper was titled “Putting a finger on it: Bellori and Sculptural Criticism”.