Can art history be an adrenaline sport? The answer is yes when art-history professor Noah Charney guides a rapid-fire survey of sculpture. He focuses on key technical and aesthetic innovations and new ways of thinking about what three-dimensional art can be. Charney highlights pieces from prehistoric sculpture through the Egyptian and Greek period, including “Laocoön and His Sons”—excavated in the presence of Michelangelo and an inspiration for his own art—which in turn sparked the next generation of Renaissance and Baroque artists.
Explore four distinctly different David statues created by Donatello, Verrocchio, Michelangelo, and Bernini. Take a turn through Mannerist sculpture and hit the finish line with modern and contemporary works, including digital sculpture. Can Charney do justice to a reasonably complete history of sculpture in a single concise lecture? Join him and find out.
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