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SUMMARY:Critical (Ms.) Fortune: A Feminist History of the Italian Renaissa
 nce? - Maria Loh
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DESCRIPTION:Kairos\, Occasio\, and Fortuna are complex facets of the same 
 deity of luck\, but at a certain moment in time a troubling\, schizophreni
 c iconography came into being\, which cast Lady Luck as a distinctively fe
 male force\, both a capricious agent controlling the Wheel of Fortune and 
 also as a body that could be either violently seized or wildly adored. Thi
 s lecture will explore the uneasy sexualization of Fortuna in some early m
 odern images such as an engraving by Marcantonio Raimondi in the Metropoli
 tan Museum that bears the descriptive title _A Naked Man Holding Fortune b
 y the Hair and Whipping Her_. Rather than simply cancelling an image as su
 ch\, I would like to take the opportunity to reflect upon the ideological 
 work that such artworks accomplished in their own time and to push us to t
 hink about how we can make sense of them as twenty-first-century viewers.\
 n\n*Maria H Loh* is Professor of Art History at the Institute for Advanced
  Study in Princeton. Previously she taught at UCL and CUNY Hunter College.
  She is the author of three books: Titian Remade. Repetition and the Trans
 formation of Early Modern Italian Art_ (2007)\; _Still Lives. Death\, Desi
 re\, and the Portrait of the Old Master_ (2015)\; and _Titian’s Touch. A
 rt\, Magic\, & Philosophy_ (2019). She is currently working on two books: 
 _Liquid Sky (On Visual Representations of the Early Modern Sky)_ and _Crit
 ical Fortune: Early Modern Lessons for the Twenty-First Century_.\nSpeaker
 s:\nMaria Loh
LOCATION:Radcliffe Observatory (Cinema\, Schwarzman Centre for the Humanit
 ies)
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