Lecture – Page 4 – Medieval Art Research

Lecture: Murray Seminar at Birkbeck: ‘Faith, Race and the ‘Other’ in North Italian Sculpture, c.1480-1700’ with Andrew Horn (6 February 2024, 5pm)

In this lecture, Andrew Horn explores how early modern Northwest Italian religious sculptures, featuring ‘othered’ characters, reflect premodern European faith and society.

Lecture: ‘Chivalry, justice and love: Royal architecture in fourteenth-century Castile’, with Elena Paulino-Montero, Vernon Square Campus, Courtauld Institute of Art, Wednesday 6 March 2024, 5.30-7pm (GMT)

In this upcoming lecture, Dr Elena Paulino-Montero explores 14th-century Castilian architecture’s evolution, the influential roles of queens and Islamic models in shaping royal spaces and power images.

Lecture: ‘The House of Mirth: the ethics of laughter and ridiculous Gothic art’ with Alixe Bovey, Vernon Square Campus, Courtauld Institute of Art, 26 March 2024, 6-8pm (GMT)

Discover the role of laughter in medieval art in this upcoming lecture, which explores how witty and crude imagery reflects contemporary ethics.

Lecture: ‘Entanglement in Shared Cultural Spaces: Hebrew Book Art in Iberia, c. 1300’, with Katrin Kogman-Appel, Vernon Square Campus, Courtauld Institute of Art, 17 Jan 2024, 5.30-7pm (GMT)

Katrin Kogman-Appel explores how Hebrew Bibles from Tudela and Perpignan circa 1300 blend Islamicate and Gothic styles, and were influenced by diverse cultural encounters and urban settings.

Lecture: ‘The Power of Blue: Didactic models in text and image in Christine de Pizan’s Epistre Othea’, Dr Charlotte Cooper-Davis, University of York, Wednesday 6 December 2023, 6-7pm (GMT)

Discover the empowering blue-hued imagery of female figures in Christine de Pizan’s ‘Epistre Othea’, in this lecture with Dr Charlotte Cooper-Davis.

Lecture: ‘Foreignness and Architecture in late fifteenth-century Castile’ with Dr Costanza Beltrami, The Murray Seminars at Birkbeck, 5 December 2023, 5pm (GMT)

Join Dr Costanza Beltrami who will be presenting on fifteenth-century Castilian architecture and its evolution through migration and artistic exchange.

Lecture: ‘Birth, death and protective imagery in a rock-hewn church from tenth-century Cappadocia’, with Dr Niamh Bhalla, Courtauld Institute of Art, Vernon Square, Wed 15 November 2023, 5.30pm-7pm (GMT)

Discover how medieval Byzantium navigated life’s uncertainties through divine imagery, as Dr. Niamh Bhalla explores Eğri Taş’s Nativity in this lecture.