Join the National Churches Trust for an online lecture that will reconsider the long-standing misconception that transi effigies present the body in a ‘late stage of decay.’
Category Archives: Lecture
Online Lecture: ‘Designing Chartres Cathedral: A Geometrical Perspective’, with Robert Bork and Ellen Shortell, 14 May 2024, 7.30pm (EST)
Join The Friends of Chartres for this online lecture in collaboration with the University of Iowa and Villa Albertine, featuring two speakers.
Lecture: Murray Seminar at Birkbeck: ‘Not Quite 3D: Representing Architecture in the Early Middle Ages’ with Karl Kinsella (Wed 20 March 2024, 5pm-6.30pm GMT)
Explore the intersection of archaeology and art history with Dr. Karl Kinsella’s lecture. Dr Kinsella will explore the story behind a fifth-century mosaic from Bordeaux, revealing early attempts to depict the Holy Sepulchre’s architecture.
SAHGB Annual Lecture: ‘Architecture and Affect in the Middle Ages’ with Professor Paul Binski, Thursday 14 March 2024, 18:30-20:20 (GMT)
The Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain invites you to their annual lecture, with guest speaker Professor Paul Binski.
Lecture: ‘tannczen, helsen, kussen, vnd rawmen: Of Dancing and Dalliance in the Late Middle Ages’, with Nina Rowe, Vernon Square Campus, Courtauld Institute of Art, Wednesday 7 February 2024, 5.30-7pm (GMT)
Discover the dual nature of dance in late medieval Germany through art, revealing celebration & caution in Bavaria and Austria circa 1450-1500 with Professor Nina Rowe.
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.
Medieval Art Research 