Sacred Traditions and the Arts

The Virtuous Pagans in Solvent transfer drawing, cut-and-pasted paper, pencil, gouache and watercolour on paper i Robert Rauschenberg: Canto IV: Limbo, Circle One, The Virtuous Pagans, 1958 (detail). Solvent transfer drawing, cut-and-pasted paper, pencil, gouache and watercolour on paper. 36.8 x 29.2 cm. The Museum of Modern Art, New York.

The seminar on Sacred Traditions and the Arts is a joint venture between the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at King’s and The Courtauld. It seeks to place researchers in dialogue who are working on any aspect of the sacred and visual culture. It is open to all scholars and students who have an interest in exploring the intersections of religion and art regardless of period, geography or tradition.

Past Events

Fragment of an ivory panel with a frontal face

Research

On the Framing of Women: Art Historical and Theological Perspectives

6:30pm, 27 May 2022 | Free, limited spaces, booking essential

Following the recent opening of Reframed: The Woman in the Window at Dulwich Picture Gallery—to great critical acclaim—this seminar will offer an opportunity to hear from its curator, Jennifer Sliwka, about some of the religious traditions of depicti...

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the philosophy of susanne langer book cover: an abstract background gold and red

Research

Susanne Langer: On Signs, Symbols and Embodied Meaning

5:30pm, 22 Mar 2022 | Free, booking essential

Adrienne Dengerink Chaplin will discuss with Ben Quash some of Langer’s key influences and aims, revealing her to be one of the most insightful and fertile but also most neglected philosophers of the twentieth century....

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