St. Ignatius Loyola Chair Lecture, “Sacra conversazione?: Catholicism, Sexuality, and Violence in Federico García Lorca and Caravaggio”

José I. Badenes, S.J, visiting Loyola Chair will give his lecture, ‘Sacra conversazione?: Catholicism, Sexuality, and Violence in Federico García Lorca and Caravaggio’ at our Lincoln Center campus on October 24th and at Rosehill on November 14th.

The lecture sets up a “sacred conversation” between works by Federico García Lorca (1898-1936) and Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571-1601) in order to demonstrate how Caravaggio’s work sheds light on Lorca’s dialectical process between negative and positive religious connotations, a dynamic of concealment and revelation, and multilayered expressiveness. Though from different centuries, countries, and artistic traditions, both artists share topics that are tangentially related. Among them are scenes of martyrdom where Catholicism, sexuality and violence co-exist in unsettling ways.

We invite all Fordham faculty, students, and administrators to please join us at Fr. Badenes’s lecture.

Contact Susan Perciasepe at perciasepe@fordham.edu for more information