2013
Paper delivered
9th December 2013
Lorenzo Pericolo delivers his paper Rome without Rome: Ancient Perfection and the French Manner in Late Seventeenth-Century Paris. INSTITUT FÜR KUNSTGESCHICHTE UND MUSIKWISSENSCHAFT. Mainz. Jahanes Gutenburg universitat: Lecture series programme.
International Conference paper presented
3rd December 2013
Karen Lang delivers her conference paper Ethics and the Void in the Art of Anish Kapoor at the Florence Biennale 2013.
Conference title: Neo-Humanism: Art, Ethics, and Aesthetics at the Dawn of the new Millennium - In Memory of Carlo Ludovico Ragghianti. Date: 3 December 2013. Location: Salone dei Cinquecento, Palazzo Vecchio, Florence.
Keynote paper.
30 November 2013
Louise Campbell. ‘From Coventry to Canterbury: raids, ruins, politics, pilgrims’ Keynote paper for Sacred Space in Modern Britain conference, organised by Twentieth Century Society/Docomomo/SAHGB, London.
Research seminar
27 November 2013
Karen Lang, 'Art history and its possibilities - a conversation'. University of Exeter, College of Humanities. Research Seminar. Art History and Visual Cultures.
Conference Introduction
26 October 2013
Lorenzo Pericolo. 'What is Metapainting? The Self-Aware Image Twenty Years Later'. Online recording of Introduction. Introduction to the conference 'The Metapictorial - East and West'. A one-day conference organised by the Department of History of Art in collaboration with the Fondazione Giorgio Cini, The Humanities Research Centre and the Early Modern Forum, University of Warwick. Date: 25–26 October 2013. Location: Palazzo Pesaro Papafava, Cannaregio, Venice.
Exhibition talk
24 October 2013
"Art historian and curator of 'Turner and Constable: Sketching from Nature', Michael Rosenthal gives an enlightening talk about the exhibition, the galleries, and the legacy of Turner, Constable and their contemporaries". Turner Contemporary, Margate. Gallery event notice
Paper presented
13 September 2013
Campbell, Louise. ‘Winifred Nicholson: modernism, craft, place’. Paper for the conference Enid Marx and her Contemporaries: Women Designers and the Popularisation of 'folk arts' 1920- 1960. Held at Compton Verney, 13 September 2013. Online programme.
Keynote speaker
Michael Hatt, 'The Way We Sculpt Now', plenary paper at Nineteenth-Century Numbers, BAVS 2013 (British Association for Victorian Studies). Keynote Speakers: Alice Jenkins (University of Glasgow); Michael Hatt (University of Warwick); Mary Poovey (New York University); Theodore Porter (University of California, Los Angeles). 29-31 August 2013, Royal Holloway, University of London. Review. Poster
Paper delivered
11 July 2013
Jenny Alexander. 'The South Portal of Lincoln Cathedral'. Paper for the workshop: The Archaeology of the Medieval Portal, University of Bamberg, Germany. Workshop programme.
Campbell, Louise. ‘Gropius in Church Street: a comedy of errors in Chelsea’, paper for Stylistic Dead Ends
21 June 2013
Campbell, Louise. ‘Gropius in Church Street: a comedy of errors in Chelsea’, paper for conference: Stylistic Dead-Ends? Fresh Perspectives on British Architecture Between the World Wars. Thursday, June 20 2013 - Friday, June 21 2013, St John's College, Oxford University. http://www.stylisticdeadends.co.uk/
Lecture presentation
10 June 2013
Jenny Alexander. 'Santiago de Compostela: new thoughts on the construction of the great pilgrimage church'. Paper given at the “All Things Stone II” Colloquium, Aguilar de Campoo, Spain.
John Turner Memorial Lecture 2013
9 May 2013
Michael Rosenthal. 'Colonel Patersons Scrapbook'. Public Lecture Series: John Turner Memorial Lecture 2013. Newcastle City Hall (New South Wales, Australia).
When, in 1809, he knew he would be returning to Britain, colonial hand Colonel William Paterson took great care to commission watercolours from John Lewin and George Robert Evans, arguably the leading artists in the colony. This comparatively ambitious project involved importing both drawing paper and watercolour paints into New South Wales, and the resulting work offers an intriguing snapshot of how what was meant as a penal colony, a place of punitive retribution, could be perceived as something very different...
Flyer.
Annual lecture
23 April 2013
Jenny Alexander. 'Santiago de Compostela: new thoughts on the construction of the great pilgrimage church'. Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland Annual Lecture 2013, Courtauld Institute of Art, London. 23 April 2013.
Conference presentation
6 April 2013
Giorgio Tagliaferro. 'The hard life of a painter’s apprentice in late Cinquecento Venice'. Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting, San Diego, April 4-6, 2013. For the panel: Between Apprentice and Master – III. Conference site.
Lecture presentation
7 March 2013
Louise Campbell. ‘Reputations reassessed: Sir Basil Spence’. Twentieth Century Society, 7 March 2013. Part of the Spring Lecture Series: Reputations Reassessed.
Research paper presentation
26 February 2013
Giorgio Tagliaferro. 'Titian's Serravalle Altarpiece and His Work in the 1540s', University of Cambridge, Department of History of Art.
Research Seminar presentation
20 February 2013
Michael Hatt, ‘Edward Carpenter and the Domestic Interior’. Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, 20 February 2013.
From the site: These research seminars are intended to showcase original and stimulating research in all areas of British art and architectural history. They will take the form of hour-long talks, followed by questions and drinks, and are geared to scholars, curators, conservators, art-trade professionals and research students working on the history of British art. The papers given in this first series of research seminars will be delivered by members of The Paul Mellon Centre’s Advisory Council.