Art historian Dr. Lynn Catterson, Columbia University, will give a lecture titled “Bardini & Co.: Producing the Renaissance for the 19th Century Art Market” on Thursday, January 30 4:30-6 p.m. in Dodson Auditorium.

This lecture is in honor of Mark Jay Zucker (1944-2013).

Lynn Catterson is a lecturer in the Columbia Department of Art History and Archeology, with a focus on the art market in19th-Century Florence. Originally trained in the sciences, she received her Ph.D. in Art History at Columbia University in 2002. Her research stems from an interest in Italian Renaissance sculpture with a focus on the marketplace and how 15th-century sculptors satisfied consumer demand for antiquities. Lately, she is working on the art market in 19th-century Florence from the point of view of production and social network via its preeminent dealer, Stefano Bardini. Drawing upon material in the state archive of Bardini, this project has received support from the Frick Center for the History of Collecting, the American Philosophical Society, the SMB-PK in Berlin, and CASVA in Washington, DC. A third edited volume on the supply side of the art market, several articles, and a book on various aspects of the phenomenon of Bardini & Co are forthcoming.