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    MFAH Special Lecture: Young Michelangelo: The Path to the Sistine

    Presented by Museum of Fine Arts, Houston at Museum of Fine Arts - Caroline Wiess Law Building

    November 20-November 21, 2010

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    MFAH  Special Lecture: Young Michelangelo: The Path to the Sistine

    The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston presents a MFAH  Special Lecture: Young Michelangelo: The Path to the Sistine, at the Caroline Wiess Law Building.  Presented by critic, curator, and art historian, Dr. John T. Spike, (pictured) author of more than twenty significant books on Italian Renaissance and Baroque art and artists including Caravaggio (second edition 2010), and the newly...

    The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston presents a MFAH  Special Lecture: Young Michelangelo: The Path to the Sistine, at the Caroline Wiess Law Building.  Presented by critic, curator, and art historian, Dr. John T. Spike, (pictured) author of more than twenty significant books on Italian Renaissance and Baroque art and artists including Caravaggio (second edition 2010), and the newly released Young Michelangelo: The Path to the Sistine.

    Young Michelangelo: The Path to the Sistine, a prodigiously informative and astonishingly vivid portrait of the artist´s first 33 years, "promises more intrigue than the best adventure novel," writes Publishers Weekly.

    From the apprentice who at the age of thirteen draws copies that are indistinguishable from his master´s originals; to the miracle of the Pietà; to the completion of the David, a task considered impossible; to the young man´s return to Rome at the age of 33 to undertake the vast ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, Young Michelangelo probes the early biography of Michelangelo, whose genius was revealed against the turbulent backdrop of the major events of his era—including the bonfire of the vanities, the Rome of the Borgias, the siege of Florence, and the burning of Savonarola at the stake.

    In this richly illustrated lecture, Dr. John T. Spike follows several of the major themes that emerge in this formative period of Michelangelo´s life and work. A book signing follows. Thank you for supporting the MFAH by purchasing Young Michelangelo: The Path to the Sistine through the MFAH Retail Shop.

    This lecture is also presented as the Artful Thursday on November 18, at 6:30 p.m.

    Lectures are free and open to the public with general museum admission. Museum members always receive free admission. A reception follows each talk.


    Museum of Fine Arts - Caroline Wiess Law Building

    1001 Bissonnet Street
    Houston, Tx 77005

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    Admission is open to the public and free with general museum admission. Museum members always receive free admission.

    Museum Admission:
    $7.00 adults
    $3.50 seniors/children 5-18


    Times:

    Saturday, November 20 1pm
    Sunday, November 21 at 2pm

    A reception to meet the speaker follows each program.


    Phone: 713-639-7300

    Parking:

    Museum Parking Garage

    Located directly east of the Beck and Law buildings, the MFAH Visitors Center features a four-story covered parking garage.

    The easy-to-find parking entrance is on Binz, marked by a large, yellow arrow.

    You're always protected from the elements when you park your car in the Museum Garage. From there, you can go to the Visitors Center lobby and find a ticketing desk and up-to-the minute museum information.

    As an added convenience, you can enter the Beck and Law buildings from the Visitors Center through security-monitored, climate-controlled tunnels connecting all three buildings.
     


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