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Celebrated for his originality and pioneering techniques, Simone Martini was Europe's leading painter of the early fourteenth century. Join art historian Machtelt Brüggen Israëls of the University of Amsterdam and the Università di Firenze, as she shares new insights into Martini’s distinctive paintings and explores what made his talent and his work so revolutionary.

About the Speaker

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Machtelt Brüggen Israëls is dedicated to early Italian Renaissance art. Her interests focus on its patronage, materiality, emotivity, and social functions. She is a professor at the University of Amsterdam and the Università di Firenze, and the research curator of Italian painting at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. She has collaborated on exhibitions in Siena, Florence, Paris, and New York regarding the culture of Siena, the sister arts of sculpture and painting, and Piero della Francesca, and most recently, Metal of Honor: Gold From Simone Martini to Contemporary Art at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. She was a fellow at Harvard’s Villa Tatti, for which she co-authored and edited a volume on Sassetta’s Borgo San Sepolcro altarpiece and, with Carl Brandon Strehlke, the catalogue of the European paintings in the Berenson Collection. Her book on Piero della Francesca was published in 2020 by Reaktion in London. She is currently researching patronage at the ducal palace in Urbino and writing a monograph on Simone Martini.

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Metal of Honor: Gold from Simone Martini to Contemporary Art is supported by the Abrams Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the Wagner Foundation, the Robert Lehman Foundation, Fredericka and Howard Stevenson, and the Samuel H. Kress Foundation.

Additional support is provided by an endowment grant from the Mellon Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities.

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The Museum receives operating support from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, which is supported by the state of Massachusetts and the National Endowment for the Arts.