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Sat 24 Nov, 2018 Conference, Early Modern, Research Forum
Perceiving Processions – Early Modern Postgraduate ...
In recent years, a renewed interest in Early Modern rituals, festivals, and performances has prompted a reconsideration of ceremonious processions with a particular focus on their impact on social, cultural, artistic and political structures and practices. Simultaneously, scholars have increasingly acknowledged the mobility of Early Modern artists across geographical, religious…
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Mon 13 Mar, 2017 Early Modern, Research Seminars
Follow the Leader: Albrecht Dürer as a Model for Design i...
For many sixteenth-century practitioners of the technical arts, mathematics was both an intellectual foundation and a badge of cultural status. An English navigational book of 1581 portrayed arithmetic and geometry as ‘the grounds of all Science and certain arts’, and praised those mechanical practitioners who ‘by the studious practice and…
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Mon 13 Feb, 2017 Early Modern, Research Seminars
The making of the sixteenth-century interior in England
The physical interiors of early modern England exist now only in fragments or later re-modellings, but piecing together this evidence shows how care for materials, improvisation and a willingness to use painted illusion gave internal spaces a degree of visual cohesion. Three other kinds of evidence offer more to the…
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Mon 23 Jan, 2017 Early Modern, Research Seminars
‘It is no less Virtuous to Keep Possession than to Acquir...
In 1731, the East India Company commissioned a series of views depicting overseas settlements under its control for display in the court of directors’ room at East India House, the company’s newly rebuilt headquarters on Leadenhall Street in the City of London. The landscape artist George Lambert painted Madras, Bombay,…
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Mon 10 Oct, 2016 Early Modern, Research Seminars
Architecture as Scientific Inquiry: Jefferson’s Laboratories
It is not surprising that figures such as Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) found architectural inspiration in science. With interests in optics and mechanical operations, Jefferson used his ‘little mountain’ of Monticello in Charlottesville, Virginia as a tool to exercise several hypotheses and demonstrate how the entire home, and by extension the…
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Mon 5 Dec, 2016 Early Modern, Research Seminars
Design from a Distance: Celebrating the Birth of the Prin...
This paper explores how a single event, the birth of the Prince of Wales, was celebrated in three cities, London, Paris and The Hague, within a ten-day period in July 1688. The near simultaneous organisation and execution of these events prompts this paper to reflect on the relationship between centres…
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Mon 7 Nov, 2016 Early Modern, Research Seminars
Too Pretty and Exotic to be Neo-classical? Hybridity with...
The historiography of eighteenth-century French art turns on the opposition between Rococo and Neo-classicism. This conceptual framework has arisen in a distorted interpretation of the critical discourses emerging around 1750 which, targeting the so-called bad taste of contemporary French painting and interior decoration, aimed at artistic regeneration. The writings of…
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Wed 17 Feb, 2016 Early Modern, Film screening, Panel Discussion
In Waking Hours.
A contemporary film on 17th century vision, followed by a discussion between the co-director, Katrien Vanagt, the historian of science Eric Jorink and the art historian Joanna Woodall. ‘Enter with me into a darkened room and prepare the eye of a freshly slaughtered cow.’ In Ophthalmographia, a treatise on vision…
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Mon 7 Mar, 2016 Early Modern
The Spirit of Clothes: The Gendering of Fashion in Early ...
This talk investigates the complex gendering of fashion and more broadly of contemporary clothing in the visual culture and social commentary of early nineteenth-century Europe. While the material and visual cultures of fashion began to be feminized in the eighteenth century, a development that gained ascendency in the late nineteenth…
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Mon 8 Feb, 2016 Early Modern, Research Forum, Research Seminars
Joseph Stannard’s Yarmouth Sands (1829) and the Predicame...
Bold, simple, bright and identifiably modern, Joseph Stannard’s Yarmouth Sands packs a remarkable visual punch. Through a close reading of this painting and its productive context (in Norwich, home to the first recognisable ‘art world’ in Britain beyond London), this paper will consider the ways in which artworks and their practitioners…
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Mon 25 Jan, 2016 Early Modern, Research Seminars
The Nomadic Eye: Travelling through Thomas Gainsborough’s...
Thomas Gainsborough’s landscape drawings and paintings take us into a distinctive world. It is one in which we are typically granted the perspective of a traveller wandering along a winding path, track or road. It is one in which we encounter a succession of familiar but also enigmatic subjects: the…
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Mon 30 Nov, 2015 Early Modern, Research Forum, Research Seminars
Painting/ Politics/ Portraiture: Marlene Dumas and the Fi...
Tamar Garb’s lecture will look at the politics of portrayal , photography and figuration in relation to the colonial/apartheid archive. It focuses on Marlene Dumas’ reworking of selected images – both personal and public – in order to question contemporary painting’s capacity to address history, in particular its spectacular/photogenic traces.
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Mon 19 Oct, 2015 Early Modern, Research Forum, Research Seminars
1819
The year 1819 was felt to be epochal by contemporaries, a moment of political and social turbulence which helped usher in a new sense of modernity. In recent years, historians and literary scholars have scrutinized the post-Waterloo years, and 1819 especially, with increasing detail, yet the art history of the…
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Mon 11 May, 2015 Early Modern, Research Forum
Urbanities and Strategies of Public Space: Exile in the C...
In April 1771 the Princes of the Blood, cousins of the king and key figures in the absolutist regime, quit Versailles in protest at Louis XV’s repression of the Parlements. This self-imposed exile was intended to demonstrate to the public and the government the princes’ dismay at the crown’s policies…
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