Tue 7 May, 2019 Lecture, Research Forum, Visiting Expert

A Luminous Line: Silverpoint and Metalpoint Drawing

Susan Schwalb has worked in silverpoint and metalpoint drawing for over 40 years. Metalpoint drawing, briefly discussed in the fourteenth century by Cennino Cennini in Il Libro dell’Arte, saw its first heyday during the Florentine Renaissance, then traveled north before largely disappearing from art history for hundreds of years. It…

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Thu 25 Apr, 2019 Research Forum, Visiting Expert

‘Orientalism’ after 40

This term’s Visiting Expert series is a joint collaboration with Professor Mary Roberts (University of Sydney) and Professor Elisabeth Fraser (University of South Florida). This series of events was curated by The Courtauld Institute of Art’s Dr Sussan Babaie. Whilst our Visiting Experts are here, we will reflect upon the…

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Tue 23 Jan, 2018 Lecture, Research Forum, Visiting Expert

“Through the slant of night:” The dark side of the earth ...

The discoveries of Columbus focused attention on the newly discovered but barely known regions on the far side of the earth, a new zone of convergence where East and West met and crossed over into one another. It was now possible to think beyond the “inhabited world” known since Antiquity…

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Mon 23 Oct, 2017 Lecture, Research Forum, Visiting Expert

Shows of Force: Personal Perspectives on Exhibitions of M...

The career of Barbara Drake Boehm, The Paul and Jill Ruddock Senior Curator for the Met Cloisters, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, is distinguished by creative exhibitions born of collaborative work with colleagues from Toronto to Prague. This past year she was co-curator of Small Wonders: Gothic Boxwood Miniatures and,…

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Thu 25 May, 2017 Visiting Expert

Whither the Art Museum?

The seminar will address institutional change in art museums.  Beginning with a few (debatable and somewhat American centered) assertions regarding current trends in museum program and practice offered by the seminar moderator, participants will then discuss the need for, limits of and possibilities afforded by institutional change in art museums,…

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Wed 24 May, 2017 Visiting Expert

A Utopia for the 21st Century: Towards the freer circulat...

Economic, political and social shifts in recent decades have limited the expansion of the collections of art museums in many areas, but there are still an extraordinary number of works in storage in museums and at archeological sites around the world.   While nationalism, ethnic separatism and global skepticism are on…

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Thu 23 Feb, 2017 Visiting Expert

What does it mean to be a fashion illustrator in 2017?

Richard will discuss social media, collaborations and the art of ‘showing up’. Being an illustrator and artist means much more than knowing how to put the pencil to paper. Richard will speak in depth about the relevance of drawing in the 21st century and how to keep the momentum going!…

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Tue 21 Feb, 2017 Visiting Expert

Richard Haines: In Conversation with Dal Chodha

Richard looks forward to sharing his path to becoming a fully realised illustrator and artist via his passion for drawing as a child, New York City in the 1970s, his career as a fashion designer and finally, how his life came full circle in Bushwick. To Richard Haines New York…

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Mon 23 Jan, 2017 Visiting Expert

A Copper-Alloy Plate with Architectural Imagery in Berlin...

A magnificent copper-alloy plate in the Museum of Islamic Art in Berlin has been the object of considerable controversy and speculation since its debut in 1910, but surprisingly little is known with certainty about it. Initially identified as Persian, for decades it was seen as a uniquely valuable representation of…

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Mon 9 May, 2016 Visiting Expert

View from Above: Latent Images in the Landscape

Since 2010 Jananne Al-Ani has developed a portfolio of film and photographic works titled The Aesthetics of Disappearance: A Land Without People, which explores the disappearance of the body in contested and highly charged landscapes by examining the relationship between the technologies of photography and flight in the history of…

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Wed 18 May, 2016 Visiting Expert

Heterochrony

How do current debates about the need for a “global,” “world,” “transnational,” etc., art history relate to the discipline’s temporal organization? The historicist structure of Western art history with its teleologically inflected narrative seems increasingly inadequate to include the varied forms of time observed by different cultures. We will discuss…

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Tue 17 May, 2016 Visiting Expert

Material Time

Recent interest in the “agency” of images prompts an examination of their times. If images can be inserted into temporal structures such as the chronological architecture that currently serves to organize art historical studies, they also have the power to “break” or interrupt time. The anachronic power of objects and…

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Thu 28 Jan, 2016 Research Forum, Visiting Expert

The visualization of a Renaissance poem: ‘Orlando Furioso...

Orlando Furioso by Ludovico Ariosto, the most celebrated poem of the Italian Renaissance, published in 1516 (and later in 1521 and 1532), very quickly became a best seller, the first great classic of modernity. An important part of this success was due to the fact that illustrations began to be…

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Tue 1 Nov, 2016 Visiting Expert

Reattribution of an early work by Willem van Aelst: the r...

This lecture explores the imposing Large Still Life with Armor traditionally attributed to Willem Kalf (1619—1693).  In 2012 the painting was reattributed to Willem van Aelst (1627—1683) on the basis of technical research carried out for the exhibition Elegance and Refinement: the Still Life Paintings of Willem van Aelst (Houston…

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Thu 3 Nov, 2016 Visiting Expert

Using technical study to document seventeenth-century att...

This seminar will draw from current technical research at the National Gallery of Art which explores artistic exchange among genre painters who worked between 1650 and 1675. These painters depicted elegant scenes of privileged life and courtship for an elite Dutch art market. Material evidence suggests shared working methods among…

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Tue 26 Jan, 2016 Visiting Expert

Memory Palaces in the Renaissance

The ancient tradition of the art of memory builds palaces in the mind in which to place images that help us to remember. While this tradition may at first sight appear radically remote from the world we live in today, it nevertheless regularly resurfaces in different forms. I would like…

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