Dr. Mark Rosen, Associate Professor of Visual and Performing Arts, and Associate Dean of Undergraduate Studies in the School of Arts and Humanities at The University of Texas at Dallas, in conversation with Dr. Benjamin Lima, Editor of Athenaeum Review. They discuss Pietro Tacca’s monument Quattro Mori (“Four Moors”) in Livorno, Italy. This monument was completed in 1626 amid the conditions of slavery in Tuscany’s main port city, which had a newly constructed bagno and a massive slave trade.
Episode 4 in the series "Falling and Rising: Public Monuments & Cultural Heritage in a Time of Protest": a series of interviews produced by the Edith O’Donnell Institute of Art History and The Athenaeum Review at the University of Texas at Dallas with art historians, historians, and archaeologists that examine the current cultural moment of renewed attention to the role of public art.
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