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Speaker: Marc Gotlieb (Williams College and Clark Art Institute / I Tatti)
Artists left this world under varied circumstances — violent, painful, peaceful, or in ways simply unknown, in other words just like anyone else. But the premise of this seminar is not only empirical but discursive, including in the Romantic age, when artists explored the shifting terms of an artistic vocation across the mediated example of their prestigious predecessors. Beyond the famous case of Raphael, the workshop explores such concerns in relation to three Renaissance artists whose deaths saw wide currency in nineteenth-century visual culture: Correggio, Il Sodoma, and the elusive La Tintoretta.
Marc Gotlieb is Halvorsen Director of the Williams Graduate Program in the History of Art, offered in collaboration with the Clark Art Institute. His research encompasses French romantic art, Orientalism, and academic art of the later nineteenth-century. Imitation is Suicide: Teacher-Student Disasters in Nineteenth-Century Art, is forthcoming in December 2026 from Princeton University Press.
Image: Octave Tassaert, "Death of Correggio" 1834
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