Q&A: Scully talks Rudolph, art history
At the ceremony celebrating the renaming of Paul Rudolph Hall on Saturday, three University benefactors spoke about sitting in the classroom of Professor Vincent Scully ’40 GRD ’49, calling it a transformative moment in their lives. His teaching formed their interest in art and architecture, they said.
Decades later, in another Scully class — his Introduction to the History of Art — the Sterling Professor Emeritus referenced Ambrogio Lorenzetti’s work in the Palazzo Pubblico in Siena during his lecture on Monday about Italian art. Lorenzetti painted sprawling frescoes: one...
Thank you Esther Zuckerman or whoever at YDN thought to interview Scully on this. Every interview I've ever read with him has been rich with wisdom and evidence of Vincent Scully's continuing engagement with the architecture.