Fort Worth—C. D. Dickerson will present “The Genius of Donatello: The Kimbell Madonna and Child and the Arts of Padua around 1450” on Wednesday, May 7, at 12:30 p.m. The lecture is free and will be held in the Museum auditorium. Dr. Dickerson is the associate curator of European art at the Kimbell Art Museum.

The focus of Dr. Dickerson’s lecture will be one of the Kimbell’s more recent acquisitions, the “Borromeo Madonna and Child.” This terracotta relief, traditionally attributed to the Florentine sculptor Donatello, is one of the most important works of Renaissance sculpture to come to light in recent decades. Dr. Dickerson will discuss its importance and address the issue of attribution, as well as situate the work in its art-historical context.

Prior to the Kimbell, Dr. Dickerson was at the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore, Maryland, where he was the Assistant Curator of Renaissance and Baroque Art.  He has also worked as a curatorial intern at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., and the St. Louis Art Museum, and was the Jane and Morgan Whitney Fellow, Department of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. He is a specialist in 17th-century European art and wrote his dissertation on aspects of sculpture in Rome before and during the time of Bernini. 

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