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Dr Maya Corry – Beautiful Bodies: Sexuality, Spirituality and Gender in Leonardo’s Milan
10th June 2027 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Dr Maya Corry is Senior Lecturer in History of Art at Oxford Brookes University; her work focuses on Renaissance Italy. She is also active as a curator, including as lead co-curator of the Madonnas & Miracles exhibition at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. The key themes of her research are gender, sexuality, the body and spirituality. Her monograph, which is published with OUP, considers the development of a curiously androgynous ideal of beauty in the work of Leonardo da Vinci and artists working alongside him in Milan, and is titled: Beautiful Bodies: Sexuality, Spirituality and Gender in Leonardo’s Milan.