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L'occhio del Principe: Machiavellian Lessons Through Renaissance Prints

01 May 2025
Thursday
2:00 pm – 4:00 pm

A pop-up exhibit curated by students from the Italian course "Machiavelli and His Legacies"

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Giovanni Battista Scultori, Naval Battle Between the Greeks and Trojans, 1538, Engraving, Museum Purchase with Funds Provided By the Edward J. Gallagher, Jr. Memorial Fund

What connections can we draw between Niccolò Machiavelli's famous 1532 political treatise Il Principe (in English, The Prince) and artworks made in Italy during the same time period?

How do these literary and visual works reinforce or offer divergent examples of common cultural themes and figures? While reading Il Principe in the original Renaissance Italian, students in Dr. Aileen A. Feng's seminar course ITAL 410 "Machiavelli and His Legacies" worked in groups to research and interpret Renaissance prints from the UAMA collection.

This pop-up exhibition will feature five prints selected by Dr. Feng and her students, dating from roughly 1480-1650, alongside interpretive labels written by the students. Join for remarks at 2pm, followed by time to view artworks and engage with the student curators in the UAMA study classroom.

Student curators: Adrien Able, Sierra Beard, Nina Doering, Alex Gardner, Kate Jaramillo, Manuela Maldonado Cadeñanes, Stella Marcuzzo, Sadie Parent, Jairo Parra, Christian Schifano, Talia Tardogno


With questions about access or to request any disability-related accommodations at this event — such as ASL interpreting, closed-captioning, wheelchair access, or electronic text, etc. — please contact Visitor & Member Services Lead Myriam Sandoval, 520-626-2087.

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