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Lecture:’Towers, travel, and architectural habits’ with Dr Tom Nickson, Courtauld Institute of Art, Wednesday 25th October 2023, 5.30pm-7pm (BST)

Dr. Tom Nickson discusses the historical importance of tower climbing as an architectural experience in global contexts.

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’.

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: “From Simone Martini (briefly) to Donatello: Recreating the Objects of the Goldsmith’s Art” by Amy Bloch, The Courtauld Institute of Art, 17:00 GMT

This lecture will consider, in reliefs and statues Donatello fashioned for Florentine, Sienese, and Paduan contexts, his recreation of objects typically produced by goldsmiths, including miters, chalices, processional crosses, parade armor, and framed and unframed medallions worn as personal adornment.

Lecture: “Giotto’s Ugliness: Art, Literature, and Pictorial Naturalism”, by Marco Ruffini, The Courtauld Institute of Art, 3rd May 2023, 17:00 GMT

This talk will explain that the painter’s ugliness is a symbolic attribute of Giotto’s pictorial naturalism focused on the faithful imitation of the natural world, at the time juxtaposed to ideal beauty.