Join Assistant Curator Emma Jameson for a final introduction to The Corsini Collection: A Window on Renaissance Florence and how this important private collection came to New Zealand.
Join Mary Kisler, Senior Curator, Mackelvie Collection, International Art, for an introduction to new exhibition, The Corsini Collection: A Window on Renaissance Florence and discover how this important private collection came to New Zealand.
Join our special guests from the Corsini family, Contessa Elisabetta Minutoli Tegrimi and Contessa Livia Sanminiatelli Branca in conversation with the Italian ambassador to New Zealand, Fabrizio Marcelli.
Join Gallery Volunteer Guides and Dante Alighieri students Annemarie Hay and Helen Clark for tour of The Corsini Collection: A Window on Renaissance Florence.
Perhaps not the chamber music you’d expect to accompany Auckland Art Gallery’s latest exhibition The Corsini Collection: A Window on Renaissance Florence, the live entertainment for this series of Open Lates showcases the talents of some of the new Renaissance people in the local music scene.
Perhaps not the chamber music you’d expect to accompany Auckland Art Gallery’s latest exhibition The Corsini Collection: A Window on Renaissance Florence, the live entertainment for this series of Open Lates showcases the talents of some of the new Renaissance people in the local music scene.
Join Auckland Art Gallery Senior Curator Mary Kisler for a three-part course exploring Florentine life through Renaissance and Baroque artworks in The Corsini Collection.
Perhaps not the chamber music you’d expect to accompany Auckland Art Gallery’s latest exhibition The Corsini Collection: A Window on Renaissance Florence, the live entertainment for this series of Open Lates showcases the talents of some of the new Renaissance people in the local music scene.
Join Senior Curator, Mackelvie Collection, International Art, for a series of short talks on new exhibition The Corsini Collection: A Window on Renaissance Florence.
Senior Lecturer, School of Art History, Classics and Religious Studies at Victoria University, David Maskill, discusses the portrait by the Catalan-born, Paris-based, Baroque painter, Hyacinthe Rigaud who specialised in painting the aristocracy.
Travel back in time! Let the amazing frames of the artworks in The Corsini Collection inspire you to design and create your own exquisite portrait frame. Explore the patterns, colours and textures of the Corsini frames and start creating!
Travel back in time! Let the amazing frames of the artworks in The Corsini Collection inspire you to design and create your own exquisite portrait frame. Explore the patterns, colours and textures of the Corsini frames and start creating!
Join Senior Curator, Mackelvie Collection, International Art, for a series of short talks on the exhibition, The Corsini Collection: A Window on Renaissance Florence.
Painting conservator Carolina Izzo discusses the intriguing events surrounding some of the works in The Corsini Collection and the extraordinary methods used by the Renaissance and Baroque artists to make their paint.
Join Dr Natalie Bell for an illustrated overview that includes key portraits from the Renaissance, as well comparative material from The Corsini Collectionand gain a fascinating insight into the role of women during this period.
On the opening weekend of The Corsini Collection, enjoy a selection music from the 15th, 16th and 17th centuries with Luca Manghi on flute and David Kelly on harpsicord.
On the opening weekend of The Corsini Collection: A Window on Renaissance Florence, join Silvia Contardi from Segafredo Zanetti for a demonstration on making a good coffee at home.
Join Senior Curator, Mackelvie Collection and International Art for a series of short talks on the exhibition, The Corsini Collection: A Window on Renaissance Florence.
Join Senior Curator, Mackelvie Collection, International Art, for a series of short talks on the exhibition, The Corsini Collection: A Window on Renaissance Florence.
Join Senior Curator, Mackelvie Collection, International Art, for a series of short talks on the exhibition, The Corsini Collection: A Window on Renaissance Florence.
Join Senior Curator, Mackelvie Collection, International Art, for a series of short talks on the exhibition, The Corsini Collection: A Window on Renaissance Florence.
Calling all artists with imaginations! Take up the challenge of the Mystery Cassoni. Cassoni are chests which families fill with treasures. Your challenge is to create an artwork using the special things in our chest. The Corsini Collection is itself like one big treasure chest filled with treasures the family have cared for over 600 years. Explore, experiment, design and create.
Calling all artists with imaginations! Take up the challenge of the Mystery Cassoni. Cassoni are chests which families fill with treasures. Your challenge is to create an artwork using the special things in our chest. The Corsini Collection is itself like one big treasure chest filled with treasures the family have cared for over 600 years. Explore, experiment, design and create.
Freelance writer and curator Francis McWhannell presents an illustrated talk on artworks with religious themes produced during the Italian Renaissance and Baroque periods, taking cues from the exhibition The Corsini Collection: A Window on Renaissance Florence.
Join Phyllis Mossman, from the School of Art History, Classics and Religious Studies, Victoria University of Wellington, for an illustrated insight into Raphael and his relationship to two popes, Julius II (whose portrait cartoon is in The Corsini Collection) and Leo X.
for an advance screening of Caravaggio: The Soul and the Blood introduced by Mary Kisler, Senior Curator, Mackelvie Collection, International Art, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki.
Join BA Art History Honours student, Alicia Taylor as she discusses the political relationship between Florence and Paris within a broader context of the works in The Corsini Collection.
Please join us for a one-off screening of Florence: Days of Destruction, Franco Zeffirelli’s rare documentary of devastation to the city of Florence and the art and cultural history in its museums, archives, and churches.
Former Senior Lecturer, Art History at University of Auckland, Dr Don Bassett looks at some of the key architectural designs in Florence – medieval, early and High Renaissance – and places them into context with the artistic styles.
Join BA Art History Honours student Chance Wilson for a short talk on the difficulties of attributing works of art to the correct artist with a particular reference to the painting Prometheus and the Eagle in The Corsini Collection.
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