Urbino: Ideal City of the Renaissance

An online talk by Lydia Goodson 

Friday 19^th November at 11.00am 

Tucked away in the foothills of the Apennines in Central Italy, Urbino seems an unlikely site for what is probably the most perfect surviving example of a Renaissance palace. However, at the end of the fifteenth century Urbino was famed throughout Europe as a centre of architectural and artistic splendour. Craftsmen came from all over Europe to decorate the magnificent palace and to build an ideal Renaissance city. Dr Lydia Goodson returns to talk about the exceptional riches of Urbino and the man who created it, Federico da Montefeltro, an astute and ruthless soldier who became one of the most significant patrons of art the world has ever seen.

This is an online talk and is provided free by the PAS.