You are viewing all items in the Professorial Lecture category.
-
Tue 15 Jan, 2019 Professorial Lecture, Research Forum
“Don’t praise artists, praise administrators!” Byzantine ...
Please join us for the first in our series of Professorial Lectures at our new home in Vernon Square. In this first instalment, Prof. Antony Eastmond (Dean and Deputy Director; A. G. Leventis Professor in the History of Byzantine Art) will present a manifesto for the creative power of administration. Byzantium is synonymous…
NOTE: This Event Has Passed
-
Tue 5 Feb, 2019 Professorial Lecture
Only Connect
Book Two of Leon Battista Alberti’s hugely influential treatise Della Pittura et della Statua (1435–1436) begins with a passage that has stayed with me throughout my career: ‘Painting has in itself a truly divine power, not only because, as is said of friendship, it lets the absent be present, but…
NOTE: This Event Has Passed
-
Tue 12 Feb, 2019 Professorial Lecture, Research Forum
Engaging with Sienese Painting through time
This lecture takes three approaches to the theme of time and Sienese painting of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. First, focusing on a single painting, I will reflect on some of the developments in the study of Early Sienese Painting over the course of the last fifty years. Next, I…
NOTE: This Event Has Passed
-
Wed 24 Apr, 2019 Professorial Lecture
From invention to inventory: object lessons from the cour...
In the late 14th century, the kings of France and the princes of the blood constructed, commissioned, purchased, gave, appropriated, pawned and liquidated some of the most extraordinary and magnificent objects of the late medieval period, in a dizzying range of forms and material, from metalwork, manuscripts, textiles and panel paintings to cameos, talismanic…
NOTE: This Event Has Passed
Find Out MoreFrom invention to inventory: object lessons from the courts of France
-
Wed 15 May, 2019 Professorial Lecture
Buildings in Bits: Lessons from the English Baroque
The ‘English Baroque’ was an economic phenomenon more than a stylistic one. Construction was the second-biggest industry in London, and much went on elsewhere, too, but few people made their livings as architects in our sense. Design was an activity, an ad-hoc role. Many figures today identified as carvers, masons, and…
NOTE: This Event Has Passed
Find Out MoreBuildings in Bits: Lessons from the English Baroque