TRRC Inaugural Lecture: “Michelangelo: Quest for Freedom”

7 Oct 2014 - 16:00 / 7 Oct 2014 - 18:00

Sidney Smith Hall, Room 2098 (enter via Room 2096)
100 St. George St.
Toronto

Inaugural Lecture, Toronto Renaissance and Reformation Colloquium 50th Anniversary Year!

Presented by Professor Sarah Rolfe Prodan

Focusing on the perpetual spiritual exile of the artist’s literary persona, this talk elucidates the struggles of Michelangelo the poet to achieve spiritual and psychological freedom in a world where trial was conceived as a divine instrument, hardship could serve as a means of liberation, and self-undoing could be reversed only by the illuminating and guiding force of God.