The study of the Florentine Renaissance is in its full motion at ECLA: students attend lectures on art history as well as study literature of the prominent figures of the time. In addition to presentations and discussions in the classroom, the visit to Berlin’s Gemäldegalerie allowed students to see the actual works of art. Visiting various
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ECLA Guest Lectures: Lynn Catterson on “Renaissance Style and the Antique”; Denise Budd on “Medici Patronage”
The art historical component of ECLA’s Academy Year core course on Renaissance Florence was inaugurated in style on the 9th of January with a pair of lectures by Lynn Catterson and Denise Budd, both scholars of Renaissance art visiting from the United States. Professor Catterson, who teaches at Columbia University, has written on fifteenth-century Florentine