A few weeks ago, Carl Villis—Senior Conservator of Paintings at the National Gallery of Victoria—gave a presentation as part of the 2021 seminar series from the Early Modern Circle at the University of Melbourne. This […]
Published to coincide with this year’s 700th anniversary of the death of Dante Alighieri, a new book by art historian Professor Martin Kemp explores the impact of Dante’s vision of divine light on visual artists […]
A new Medieval and Renaissance Reading Group is being set up at the Univeristy of Melbourne, see below for more detail. A proposal is being considered to form a reading group at the University of […]
General Editors: Christopher Celenza; Samuel Cohn, Jr.; Andrea Gamberini; Geraldine Johnson; and Isabella Lazzarini. This series investigates the Renaissance as a complex intersection of political and cultural processes that radiated across Italian territories into wider […]
In this lecture Professor Nagel will present his recent research on ideas of Asia and America in Renaissance Europe. The decades after 1492 brought Asia closer to Europe than it had ever been. The art, […]
Professor Alexander Nagel from New York University is giving a lecture and a special research workshop in Sydney next week. Lecture | The Renaissance Elsewhere 10 March, 2016, 6-7.30pm Co-presented by the Power Institute and […]
Professor Patricia Simons will also be presenting her lecture on Susannah and the Elders at the University of Sydney. See the information for her Melbourne lecture here. 21 March, 2016, 6-7.30pm Jacopo Tintoretto’s ‘Susanna and the […]
‘Susanna and the Elders’ is commonly read as a case of male voyeurism, in subject and purpose, or as mere moralizing allegory. This lecture moves away from each reductive extreme by re-examining the story’s history […]
News, Writing and Reviews on Art and Art History Katrina Grant Ron Radford, director of the National Gallery of Australia, has announced his plans to retire. He will step down from the role in September. […]
Charting Cultural Transformation through Renaissance Preaching Associate Professor Peter Howard from Monash University How did the artists of the Sistine Chapel wall frescoes develop and execute a complex programme in an amazingly short period […]
