Lecture and tour: Firenze and its dome

When
28 Sep 2019
11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Location
Honolulu Museum of Art, 900 S. Beretania Street, Honolulu

Join our members Fabrizio Medosi (architect) and Nancy Miwa (docent) at the Honolulu Museum of Art for a talk and tour about Firenze and the Illusionist of Santa Maria del Fiore, Filippo Brunelleschi. They will bring a few models to explain architectural and structural concepts, while touching upon a sprinkling of historical social, economic, artistic, and cultural issues leading to and evolving in the Florentine Renaissance.

The program will start at 11am with Fabrizio's talk, continue at 11:30am with Nancy's tour of selected artwork that relate to Brunelleschi's architecture. At 12pm we'll sit down at the cafe' and enjoy lunch (optional and self paid), while discussing the presentation/tour as well as the book "Brunelleschi's Dome" by Ross King.

RSVP: Please register here so we can organize accordingly.

Cost: Museum members (free); age 18 years and under (free); Hawai‘i residents ($10 with ID), others ($20). Pay at the door, directly to https://honolulumuseum.org .

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