The Itinerant Shrine: Art, History, and the Multiple Geographies of the Holy House of Loreto
Drawing on the recent scholarly interest in the cult of the Holy House, this conference endeavors to serve as an important milestone for academic discourse on Loreto, bringing together scholars working in a variety of disciplines and employing diverse methodological approaches.
Organised by Matteo Chirumbolo (The Courtauld Institute of Art; Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut), Erin Giffin (I Tatti, The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies) and Antongiulio Sorgini (Johns Hopkins University).
Clive’s conference is kindly supported by Dr Nicholas Murray and Mr William Sharp in loving memory of Mr Clive Davies.
Fashion: Visual & Material Interconnections Book Series ‘Prêt-à-Porter, Paris and Women’ Launch
Unravelling Threads: Tracing and Transforming Violence and Trauma through Fashion
Ukrainian Modernism and the Architecture of Standardization
Memento mori Imagery and the Limits of the Self in Late Medieval Europe
Objects bearing memento mori themes were abundant in Europe in the decades immediately around the year 1500. The material properties of these objects – the matter from which they were formed, the apparent care or negligence with which they were fashioned, and the ways their physical condition betrays signs of heavy use or careful conservation – can point us toward a better understanding of the diversity of interests that inspired their creation and use. These motivations range from pious apprehensions about the fate of one’s soul to arguably less anxious ruminations on the nature of image-making and the role of an emerging sense of aesthetic engagement. Taken together, they encapsulate one of the central fascinations and anxieties of their age: in an era committed to the notion that deep truths could be conveyed through surface appearances and that individual identity could be captured, communicated, and preserved through static imagery, memento mori objects resisted the notion of a stable self, reminding their viewers of the anonymity that awaits us all in the grave.
Speaker: Professor Stephen G. Perkinson – Professor of Art History and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Bowdoin College.
The Itinerant Shrine: Art, History, and the Multiple Geographies of the Holy House of Loreto
Drawing on the recent scholarly interest in the cult of the Holy House, this conference endeavors to serve as an important milestone for academic discourse on Loreto, bringing together scholars working in a variety of disciplines and employing diverse methodological approaches.
Organised by Matteo Chirumbolo (The Courtauld Institute of Art; Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut), Erin Giffin (I Tatti, The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies) and Antongiulio Sorgini (Johns Hopkins University).
Clive’s conference is kindly supported by Dr Nicholas Murray and Mr William Sharp in loving memory of Mr Clive Davies.
Watch NowAmerican Art Archives in Britain
American Art and the Political Imagination
The Art Collector in Early Modern Italy
Decals of Love, or, The One True Imposter, a Lyric Lecture With/Through Some Queer Love Poems
In this lyric lecture on queer love poems, a perhaps-too-close reading, Sophie Seita treats poetic lines taken from Wendy Lotterman’s poetry as if they were part of their ongoing dialogue and epistolary friendship.
Sophie Seita is a London-based artist, writer, and educator whose work explores text in its various translations into book objects, performances, videos, or other languages and embodiments. More info on her performances, publications, and other projects can be found here.
Queer Ecologies: Artist Adham Faramawy
Decolonizing Art History with Mexico’s “Tenth Muse,” Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
Painting Pairs 2021/22: Collaborative Research in Conservation and Art History - Second Presentations
Considering Collecting: The Future of Public Collections
The sixth and final event in the ‘Considering Collecting’ 2021/22 series will look to the future. Having looked at some of the key issues affecting those who collect art and who work with collections today, we will think about what needs to happen next: can collecting become a more democratic, representative activity, particularly for those institutions and organisations which serve the public?
Open Courtauld Hour - Episode 7, S6: Art and Scent
Imagining the Apocalypse: Art and the End Times
Image, Pattern, Repetition: The Craft of Romanesque Sculpture in Southwest England
Considering Collecting: Women and Collecting
Women have been making, selling, and collecting artworks and artefacts for centuries, but few have reached the status and renown of many of their male counterparts. While many men collecting art have gone on to found internationally famous museums, galleries and institutions to house their collection, there are fewer women collectors who have been in such a privileged position historically.
Where artworks, documentation, and objects relating to the lives of men are often carefully collected, catalogued and preserved by collections of all sizes, there has been much work to do to restore this balance to uncover and share stories of – and by – women connected to the visual arts. In the fifth event in the ‘Considering Collecting’ series, our panel will explore this ‘rebalancing’ in more depth.
Supported by Laurence C. Zale Associates, Inc., a visual arts advisory company.