Rome’s painted facades were once as celebrated as Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel frescoes and Raphael’s Vatican stanze. Yet these treasures of the Eternal City have now all but disappeared. Celebrating the opening of the exhibition The Lost Murals of Renaissance Rome (Getty Center, May 31 through September 4, 2022), join us for a talk with Senior Curator Julian Brooks (J. Paul Getty Museum), recreating some stunning examples of this extraordinary Renaissance phenomenon and revealing what can still be seen today in Rome.
This program is organized in collaboration with The J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center.
Date: WEDNESDAY JUNE 8
Time: 6:00 pm PST
Location: Italian Cultural Institute
1023 Hilgard Avenue, Los Angeles
THE EVENT WILL BE ALSO LIVESTREAMED ON ZOOM
JULIAN BROOKS
Dr. Julian Brooks is Senior Curator and Department Head in the Department of Drawings at the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles. He is a specialist in Italian and British drawings. Julian’s past exhibitions at the Getty have included Guercino: Mind to Paper (2006-2007); Taddeo and Federico Zuccaro: Artist-Brothers in Renaissance Rome (2007-2008); Leonardo da Vinci and the Art of Sculpture (2010); Andrea del Sarto: The Renaissance Workshop in Action (2015); JMW Turner: Painting Set Free (2015), London Calling (2016); and Michelangelo: Mind of the Master (2020). His current Getty exhibitions are Lost Murals and Judy Baca: Hitting the Wall (2022). William Blake: Visionary, co-curated with Edina Adam, will open in fall 2023. Julian’s doctorate is from the University of Oxford, and from 2000-2004 he worked at the Ashmolean Museum; he joined the Getty in 2004.