Prof William Diebold, historian of early medieval art at Reed College, will share his latest work at the London Society for Medieval Studies.
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Lecture: ‘Byzantine Tradition in Africa: Art and Culture in Northern and Eastern Africa’ with Dr Andrea Achi, Friday 13 October 2023, 6:30–7:30pm, The Met Fifth Avenue, New York City
Join Dr Andrea Achi to learn about the profound artistic contributions of North Africa, Egypt, Nubia, Ethiopia, and other powerful African kingdoms whose pivotal interactions with Byzantium had a lasting impact on the Mediterranean world.
Online Lecture: ‘Emblems of the Past: saints, stained glass and early medieval antiquities’, Dr Martin Crampin, 12 October 2023, 5.00pm (BST)
Sign up for this upcoming online lecture with Dr Crampin on medieval Welsh Saints in stained glass.
Lecture: ‘Medieval and Medical: Developing The Wellcome Historical Medical Museum in the 1940s’, Lauren Rozenberg, University of East Anglia, 11 October, 5pm (BST)
Join the Department of Art History & World Art Studies at UEA for a lecture by Dr Lauren Rozenberg.
Online Lecture: ‘Reconstructing Bury St Edmunds Abbey’, with Steven Brindle, British Archaeological Association, Wednesday 4 October 2023, 5pm (BST)
This month’s British Archaeological Association Lecture will take place via Zoom. Tune in to hear Dr Steven Brindle from English Heritage to present on ‘Reconstructing Bury St Edmunds Abbey’.
Virtual Conversation: Exhibitions, Museum Collections, and Environment, 27 July 2023
Join Heather Alexis Smith, Assistant Curator at the Pulitzer, and Dr. Julia Perratore, Assistant Curator at The Met Cloisters on Thursday, 27 July 2023 for a conversation about ecology-centered museum practices. Smith will describe the process of organizing the Pulitzer’s spring show The Nature of Things: Medieval Art and Ecology, 1100-1550 and will discuss howContinue reading “Virtual Conversation: Exhibitions, Museum Collections, and Environment, 27 July 2023”
Lecture: ‘Analysis of Pigments on Painted Byzantine & Japanese Manuscripts’, Kate Fulcher, Bodleian Libraries Oxford, 26 June 2023, 1:00–2:00 pm (BST)
Head to the Bodleian Library to hear the Library’s new Heritage Scientist speak about Byzantine manuscripts from the 10th to 13th centuries, and Japanese scrolls from the 17th century.
Lecture: ‘The Conway Library: historiography, colour, and bibliography’, Anthony Hamber, Thursday 6th July, 17:30-18:30 (BST), Courtauld Vernon Square Campus
Learn more about the Conway Library in this lecture.
Hybrid Lecture: Images of the Gospels through Ethiopian and European Eyes, Dr Dorothea McEwan, 23 May 2023, 5:30 – 7:30PM BST
Images of the Gospels, through Ethiopian and European Eyes – the Evangelium arabicumas vorlage for an Ethiopian tetraevangelium. An example of the new Gondärine style of painting in Ethiopia in the 17th century Dr Dorothea McEwan (Honorary Fellow, Warburg Institute, and Associate Fellow of the Ethiopian Academy of Sciences) A John Coffin Memorial Lecture Illuminated gospel books suchContinue reading “Hybrid Lecture: Images of the Gospels through Ethiopian and European Eyes, Dr Dorothea McEwan, 23 May 2023, 5:30 – 7:30PM BST”
Hybrid Lecture: Gilded Suns and Peacock Angels: Theatrical Materiality and Art in Fifteenth-Century Florence, Laura Stefanescu, Wednesday 14th June, 5pm BST
In fifteenth-century Florence, the phenomenon of religious theatre and ritual performance, promoted by adult and youth confraternities throughout the city, reached an unparalleled popularity, transitioning from the realm of devotion to that of the spectacular. The highlight of these performances was the materialisation of a multi-sensory heaven on stage and the appearance of its livingContinue reading “Hybrid Lecture: Gilded Suns and Peacock Angels: Theatrical Materiality and Art in Fifteenth-Century Florence, Laura Stefanescu, Wednesday 14th June, 5pm BST”
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