November 26, online event
After five years, the #ItaliaEbraica project is renewed and becomes Jewish Italy around the world. Each month we will get to know a new museum and discover the paths that connect distant places with our ‘Jewish Italy.’
Each International Jewish Museum will present online on Zoom an object or a masterpiece from its collection that tells a part of Italian history.
The first event will be held online on Wednesday, November 26, at 6:30 pm (Italian time) and is dedicated to one of the rarest objects in the Judaica collection of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston: the recently acquired 1558 bronze medal by Pastorino Pastorini, depicting Dona Gracia Nasi the Younger.
The medal was made in Ferrara, where the young woman lived at the time. A perfect example of the female Italian Renaissance medal, its rarity lies in its Hebrew inscription and in the Jewish identity of its young sitter.
Who was this young woman? And why was a medal of her likeness made? In this talk, Simona Di Nepi (Charles and Lynn Schusterman Curator of Judaica, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston) will reconstruct the story behind this medal and its sitter within the broader context of Sephardic Jews in sixteenth-century Italy.
Greetings from Amedeo Spagnoletto – Director of MEIS
Speaker: Simona Di Nepi – Charles and Lynn Schusterman Curator of Judaica, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
The meeting will be in English with simultaneous translation into Italian.
If you want to attend the event, click here and fill out the form
THE ZOOM LINK WILL BE SENT BEFORE THE EVENT STARTS
Credits: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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