Dr. Anastasia Drandaki (Benaki Museum) considers the role of natural landscape in Byzantine pilgrimage art. A pilgrimage was born of the believer’s longing to be in a locus sanctus (holy place), to see and touch and imitate holy persons, treading in their very footsteps. Pilgrims themselves express this in their journals, describing step by stepContinue reading “Lecture: Deserts, Rivers and Mountains: Nature and Divinity in Byzantine Pilgrimage Art, Brookline, MA”
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Lecture: Byzantine Money: The Politics and Aesthetics of a World Currency
Thursday, March 13, 2014 6:00pm – 8:00pm Arthur M. Sackler Museum lecture hall, 485 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02138 Byzantine Money: The Politics and Aesthetics of a World Currency Ilse and Leo Mildenberg Memorial Lecture Eurydice Georganteli, Harvard University Fellow in the History of Art and Architecture, Harvard University When the Roman Empire’s capital moved from Rome toContinue reading “Lecture: Byzantine Money: The Politics and Aesthetics of a World Currency”
Lecture: ‘The Ranworth rood screen’, Paul Mellon Centre, London, 20th November 2013 at 5:45pm
The church, a short distance outside Norwich, is outstanding even among the screens of the county as a survival showing remarkable completeness of its imagery and exceedingly high quality artistry.
Lecture: Stained Glass Museum Annual Lecture, Art Worker’s Guild London, 24 July 2013 6pm
The director of the York Glaziers’ Trust, Sarah Brown will be giving this year’s annual lecture for the Ely Stained Glass Museum in London. The topic of the paper will be “‘The conservation of a medieval master-piece: John Thorntonʼs stained glass Apocalypse in York Minster“. The lecture will begin at 6pm at Art Worker’s Guild,Continue reading “Lecture: Stained Glass Museum Annual Lecture, Art Worker’s Guild London, 24 July 2013 6pm”
Medieval Art Research 