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Imagine a museum of lost art. It would contain more objects than all of the world’s museums combined.
Only a modest percentage of the artworks created through the ages survive intact today. Some vanished masterpieces are definitely gone: consumed by fire, destroyed by iconoclasts, or fed to pigs. But what stirs the imagination are not the definitive tragedies of artifacts known to have been ruined, but the stories of artworks that are lost – stolen, mislaid, hidden and forgotten – and might be retrieved. A case in point is Leonardo’s Salvator Mundi, missing for centuries, covered in dirt, misattributed, thought all but worthless and now the world’s most expensive artwork. This lecture will explore famous missing masterpieces by artists such as Leonardo, Michelangelo, Caravaggio, Vermeer, Rembrandt, David, and Manet, and examine some of the most notorious heists in history.

About the Presenter:
Arvi Wattel is a lecturer in the History of Art at UWA (School of Design). Before moving to Perth, he held fellowships at the Fondazione Ermitage in Ferrara, the Kunsthistorisches Institut (Max Planck Gesellschaft) in Florence, the Dutch Institute for Art History in Florence and the Royal Netherlandish Institute in Rome, and lectured at the Radboud University in Nijmegen, the University of Maastricht and for Oberlin College in Arezzo.

THINGS TO KNOW
This course will be held at The University Club of Western Australia.
Tea and coffee will served in the break.