All seminars are held at 5pm in the Keynes Library at Birkbeck’s School of Arts (Room 114, 43, Gordon Sq., London, WC1H OPD). A break at 5.50pm is followed by discussion and refreshments. 22 AprilBernd Nicolai: Modes of Artistic Expression and Representation. The facade of Bern Minster and fifteenth-century church building programmes in imperial citiesContinue reading “Lecture Series: Murray Seminars at Birkbeck, Summer 2016”
Category Archives: Seminars & Lectures
Lecture series: Visibility and presence of the Image in Ecclesiastical Space
Lecture series: Visibilité et présence de l’image dans l’espace ecclésial, INHA Paris, March 24 – June 16, 2016. The analysis of medieval Church space requires wide-ranging consideration of mounmental and ritual context. Current research focuses on the reception of images, and on the visibility and legibility of images. Both in the Latin West and in Byzantium, considerationContinue reading “Lecture series: Visibility and presence of the Image in Ecclesiastical Space”
Annual Hammer Art History Lecture: “Art and Papal Politics in Twelfth-Century Rome” (UCLA January 28, 2016)
UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies Annual Hammer Art History Lecture: “Art and Papal Politics in Twelfth-Century Rome” Dale Kinney (Eugenia Chase Guild Professor Emeritus in the Humanities and Research Professor, Bryn Mawr College) Art and architecture were important vehicles of communication for medieval patrons, including popes. In this lecture, Professor Kinney presents a rangeContinue reading “Annual Hammer Art History Lecture: “Art and Papal Politics in Twelfth-Century Rome” (UCLA January 28, 2016)”
Seminar Series: Murray Seminars at Birkbeck, Spring 2016
This term promises an interesting and varied programme. Our speakers are: Zuleika Murat, sharing discoveries about Guariento and the Tomb of Doge Giovanni Dolfin in Santi Giovanni e Paolo, Venice (Wednesday 20th January) Tom Nickson, looking at the significance of light and its subsequent obscuration in gothic buildings (Wednesday, 10th February) Paula Nuttall, on dance and low-life subjectsContinue reading “Seminar Series: Murray Seminars at Birkbeck, Spring 2016”
Lecture: ‘Royal Relations between the Danes and the Baltic Slavs in the Tenth and Eleventh Centuries’, Dr Paul Gazzoli, London Society for Medieval Studies, IHR London, 12 January 2016
The London Society for Medieval Studies is hosting a lecture on Tuesday evening, January 12th, at 7.00pm in the Wolfson Room (NB01), IHR Basement, Senate House (located on Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU) by: Paul Gazzoli (Cambridge) who will be speaking on ‘Royal Relations between the Danes and the Baltic Slavs in the Tenth and Eleventh Centuries’. All those whoContinue reading “Lecture: ‘Royal Relations between the Danes and the Baltic Slavs in the Tenth and Eleventh Centuries’, Dr Paul Gazzoli, London Society for Medieval Studies, IHR London, 12 January 2016”
UCL IMARS Seminar: 6:15pm, Monday, 18th January 2016. Professor Jean-Claude Schmitt: ‘Les rythmes au Moyen Âge (Rhythms in the Middle Ages)’
We are delighted to announce the next UCL IMARS Seminar of 2015-16. The seminar will be held on Monday, 18th January 2016 with Professor Jean-Claude Schmitt – Doyen of the modern Annales School – speaking. He will be presenting his latest book: ‘Les rythmes au Moyen Âge (Rhythms in the Middle Ages)’ As usual the seminar begins at 6:15pm,Continue reading “UCL IMARS Seminar: 6:15pm, Monday, 18th January 2016. Professor Jean-Claude Schmitt: ‘Les rythmes au Moyen Âge (Rhythms in the Middle Ages)’”
Lecture: ‘”I have not seen more precious tombs and burials with greater pomp”: Guariento and the Tomb of Doge Giovanni Dolfin in Santi Giovanni e Paolo, Venice’, Zuleika Murat, Murray Seminars at Birkbeck, 5.00pm 20 January 2016
Zuleika Murat, ‘I have not seen more precious tombs and burials with greater pomp’: Guariento and the Tomb of Doge Giovanni Dolfin in Santi Giovanni e Paolo, Venice The splendid tomb of Doge Giovanni Dolfin in the Basilica dei Santi Giovanni e Paolo in Venice once consisted of a hanging canopy and tomb by Andrea daContinue reading “Lecture: ‘”I have not seen more precious tombs and burials with greater pomp”: Guariento and the Tomb of Doge Giovanni Dolfin in Santi Giovanni e Paolo, Venice’, Zuleika Murat, Murray Seminars at Birkbeck, 5.00pm 20 January 2016″
Lecture, 6pm, 18 January 2016. Architectural Practice in Spain, 1370-1450: Drawings, Documents & Historiography
The Coll & Cortés Medieval Spain Seminar in the Research Forum South Room in the Courtauld Institute of Art, London. By Dr Encarna Montero, University of Valencia 6-7pm, Monday 18th January, followed by a drinks reception. Free attendance, open to all A significant number of sources for the study of architectural practise survive fromContinue reading “Lecture, 6pm, 18 January 2016. Architectural Practice in Spain, 1370-1450: Drawings, Documents & Historiography”
Seminar: Professor Jean-Claude Schmitt on ‘Les rythmes au Moyen Âge (Rhythms in the Middle Ages)’ Monday 18 January 2016
The first UCL Iinterdisciplinary Medieval And Renaissance Seminar of 2016 will be held at 6.15pm Monday 18 January 2016. Professor Jean-Claude Schmitt will be presenting his new book, Les rythmes au Moyen Âge (Rhythms in the Middle Ages). Unlike previous UCL IMARS seminars this will take place in the Institute of Advanced Studies, UCL in the Common Ground, South Wing,Continue reading “Seminar: Professor Jean-Claude Schmitt on ‘Les rythmes au Moyen Âge (Rhythms in the Middle Ages)’ Monday 18 January 2016”
Lecture Series: Robert Branner Forum for Medieval Art, Columbia University
Robert Branner (1927-1973) was an art historian specializing in Gothic architecture and manuscript illumination. Active as an excavator, he made important discoveries in the chronology and style of French cathedrals, incorporating cultural historical tools into the method of design analysis that had more traditionally dominated architectural history. Branner is remembered through the Robert Branner Forum,Continue reading “Lecture Series: Robert Branner Forum for Medieval Art, Columbia University”
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