On October 12–13, Art History Professor & Chair Lorenzo Pericolo took part in a two-day workshop at Cambridge University, UK, organized by DAAD–Cambridge University: The Language of Ambiguity in Early Modern Art. Professor Pericolo gave a presentation on the notion of “obscurity” in classical sources and early modern art theoretical and rhetorical sources: Cicero, Quintilian, Galen, Lodovico Dolce, Giovan Paolo Lomazzo, Carlo Cesare Malvasia, Gabriele Paleotti, and Sforza Pallavicino. He also gave a short presentation on “stylistic obscurity” at the Fitzwilliam Museum of Art, Cambridge, in relation to Guido Reni’s Ecce Homo.
