LECTURE SERIES: ART CONVERSATIONS XXXII – Dr. Emily Fenichel: “A man within a woman”: Vittoria Colonna And Michelangelo’s Friendship

MUSEUM LECTURE SERIES: ART CONVERSATIONS XXXII
March 22, 2026

Boca Raton Museum of Art, Wolgin Education Center
Host: Dr. Ena Heller, Executive Director, Boca Raton Museum of Art. Friends of the Uffizi Galleries Education Committee Chairs: Linda Civerchia Balent & Linda Tufo.

Sebastiano del Piombo, Vittoria Colonna, ca. 1520, oil on wood. Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya. Image in the Public Domain.

Program: Dr. Emily Fenichel: “A man within a woman”: Vittoria Colonna And Michelangelo’s Friendship
Michelangelo met the noble widow and poet Vittoria Colonna sometime in the late 1530s in Rome. An intense spiritual and intellectual relationship blossomed between the unlikely pair as they exchanged letters, sonnets, and drawings for nearly a decade until Colonna’s death in 1547. This talk will explore their relationship and the works of art that resulted from it as Michelangelo sought to honor the friend he called “A man within a woman”.Lecture Tickets are free for Friends of the Uffizi Members.
Please RSVP to:  judyo@friendsoftheuffizigallery.orgLecture Tickets may be purchased from the Boca Museum
TICKETS: https://experience.bocamuseum.org/events/1a8dd8ca-a9c6-bb72-173a-b7dbae031419

Dr. Emily Fenichel is Associate Professor of Art History at Florida Atlantic University. She is the author of Michelangelo’s Art of Devotion in the Age of Reform, which was published by Cambridge University Press in 2023. She has also published articles on various aspects of Michelangelo’s life and career, from the Pietà to the artist’s portrait medal. Currently, she is researching and writing her second book on Michelangelo’s images of women.

The Boca Raton Museum of Art is proud to partner with Friends of the Uffizi to present Renaissance Art Conversations, an annual series of fascinating presentations from artists, scholars, and experts who discuss themes and insights into the Uffizi Gallery’s exhibitions and art history connections.

The Friends of the Uffizi was created to support the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy, by raising awareness of the Uffizi and its cultural treasures and by providing resources for acquisition, preservation, restoration and education.