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from the issue of November 2, 2006
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Michelangelo biographer to offer Geske Lecture
William Wallace, an internationally recognized authority on Michelangelo and his contemporaries, will deliver the next Geske Lecture at 7 p.m. Nov. 13 in the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery.
The lecture, "'The Biggest Ass in the World:' Michelangelo as Writer," is free and open to the public. A reception follows the lecture in Sheldon's Great Hall.
Wallace, the Barbara Murphy Bryant distinguished professor of art history at Washington University in St. Louis, reveals Michelangelo the man through his written correspondence. The title of his lecture refers to a letter Michelangelo (1475-1564) wrote to his nephew, Lionardo, expressing his exasperation with the nephew's lamentable inability to write properly: "I do not know where you learnt to write. If you had to write the biggest ass in the world, I believe you would write with more care."
Wallace received his doctorate in art history from Columbia University in New York in 1983. Professor and chair of the department of art history and archaeology at Washington University, he teaches Renaissance art and architecture (1300-1700) and is an internationally recognized authority on Michelangelo and his contemporaries.
In addition to more than 50 scholarly articles and two works of fiction, he is the author and editor of four books on Michelangelo, most-recently "Michelangelo: Selected Scholarship in English." He is also working on a biography about Michelangelo.
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American Life in Poetry
Corea, Burton to play Valentine's Day show
Eckert, 'Horizon' return Nov. 9 to Lied Center
Exhibit celebrates Cather publications
Michelangelo biographer to offer Geske Lecture
Moscow State Symphony performs Tchaikovsky, Dvorák Nov. 11 at Lied
Petrie offers free film lecture Nov. 3
PINK AND BLUE POETRY
The String Beans to play 'Free at 6'
Theatrix opens fall season Nov. 9
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