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Hands
w/ Tom Richards
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Focusing deeply on a specific theme, Assistant Director of The Florence Academy of Art Tom Richards, takes us on a journey through time, through art history, exploring figurative art and how the hands depicted in the artworks contribute to the whole, in both sculpture and painting.
When looking at paintings and sculptures, many people would focus only on the anatomy, or the likeness of a portrait, yet in this lecture Richards shows how hands, complex structures that are unique to each individual, and hold no small portion of the identity of a person, can be used as narrative, compositional, and psychological tools in the hands of an artist. Deftly combining historical context for the artists and artworks shown with the keen eye and knowledge from years of working as a painter, Richards guides the viewer through a meditation on an often overlooked element in many paintings and sculptures.
Click here for the list of selected artworks shown in this video lecture!
- “Farnese Hercules”, Glykon, reproduced from the original by Lysippos, Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Naples, Italy.
- “Compianto sul Cristo morto”, Niccolò dell’Arca, Chiesa di S. Maria della vita, Bologna, Italy.
- “Madonna Panciatichi”, Desiderio da Settignano, Bargello Museum, Florence, Italy.
- “Dama col mazzolino”, Andrea del Verrocchio, Bargello Museum, Florence Italy.
- “Ratto di Proserpina”, Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Galleria Borghese, Rome, Italy.
- “The Penitent Magdalene”, Titian, Pitti Palace, Florence, Italy.
- “Christ and St. Thomas”, Andrea del Verrocchio, Orsanmichele, Florence, Italy.
- “Noli me Tangere”, Titian, The National Gallery, London, UK.
- “Deposition of Christ”, Bronzino, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Besançon, France.
- “Blind Old Beggar”, Jusepe de Ribera, Allen Memorial Art Museum (AMAM), Oberlin, OH, US.
- “Saint Francis Receiving the Stigmata”, Giotto, Louvre, Paris, France.
- “Weeping Woman”, Vincent van Gogh, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, US.
- “Apollo and Marsyas”, Jusepe de Ribera, Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Belgium.
- “The Deposition from the Cross”, Jacopo Pontormo, Church of Santa Felicita, Florence, Italy.
- “Supper at Emmaus”, Titian, Louvre, Paris, France.
- “Gentleman with a Gold Chain”, Jacopo Tintoretto, Museo del Prado, Madrid, Spain.
- “Marten Ryckaert”, Anthony van Dyck, Museo del Prado, Madrid, Spain.
- “Portrait of a Lady”, Anthony van Dyck, Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan, Italy.
- “The Return of the Prodigal Son”, Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, State Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia.
- “Portrait of François Langlois”, Anthony van Dyck, The National Gallery, London, UK.
- “Charles Stewart, 3rd Marquess of Londonderry”, Sir Thomas Lawrence, The National Gallery, London, UK.
- “Miss Elizabeth Haverfield”, Thomas Gainsborough, The Wallace Collection, London, UK.
- “Banquet of the Officers of the St. George Civic Guard”, Frans Hals, Frans Hals museum, Haarlem, The Netherlands.
- “Portrait of painter Elizabeta Nikolayevna Zvantseva”, Ilya Repin, Ateneum, Helsinki, Finland.
- “Margaret, Countess of Blessington”, Sir Thomas Lawrence, The Wallace Collection, London, UK.
- “A Lady with a Squirrel and a Starling”, Hans Holbein the Younger, The National Gallery, London, UK.
- “Portrait of Innocent X”, Diego Velázquez, The Doria Pamphilj Gallery, Rome, Italy.
- “Las Meninas”, Diego Velázquez, Museo del Prado, Madrid, Spain.
- “Portrait of Bartolomeo Panciatichi”, Bronzino, Uffizi, Florence, Italy.
- “Henry James”, John Singer Sargent, National Portrait Gallery, London, UK.
- “Mrs. George Mosenthal”, John Singer Sargent, Private Collection.
- “Carolus-Duran”, John Singer Sargent, The Clark Institute, Williamstown, MA, US.
- “The Jewish Bride”, Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
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