Please join Birkbeck on 9 December 2025, at Birkbeck and online, for the Murray Seminar by Sarah McBryde. In this seminar, Sarah McBryde will share her research on ‘Like himself and no other: The Story of Morgante Nano at the Florentine Court of Cosimo I de’ Medici’.
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Murray Seminar: ‘Imago Dei, Imago Mundi: Matthew Paris’s saints, relics, maps and wonders’ with Paul Binski, Birkbeck, 17 November 2025, 17:00-18:30 (GMT)
Please join Birkbeck on 17 November, at Birkbeck and online, for the Murray Seminar by Paul Binski. In this seminar, Paul Binski will share his research on ‘Imago Dei, Imago Mundi: Matthew Paris’s saints, relics, maps and wonders’.
Murray Seminar: ‘The artist’s new body, burle, and the praise of caricature in early modern Italy’, with Katarzyna Murawska-Muthesius, Birkbeck, 20 October 2025, 17:00-18:30 (GMT)
Please join Birkbeck for the first Murray Seminar of this academic year. Katarzyna Murawska-Muthesius will share her research on ‘The artist’s new body, burle, and the praise of caricature in early modern Italy’.
Murray Seminar: ‘African coastlines, the Manueline Style and Changing Perceptions of Nature’ with Scott Nethersole, Birkbeck, 10 June 2025, 5-6.30pm (BST)
Please join Birkbeck for the final Murray Seminar of this academic year with Scott Nethersole, ‘mai non vidi la più bella costa de quel che me parse questa: African coastlines, the Manueline style and changing perceptions of nature’.
Murray Seminar: ‘Natural Disorder: Art and Unruliness in Norwich Priory’ with Dr Jessica Barker, Birkbeck, 7 May 2025, 17-18:30 (GMT)
Join the next Murray Seminar with Dr Jessica Barker, who will be presenting on representations of the natural world within a particular late-medieval monastic community.
Murray Seminar: ‘Nicola and Giovanni Pisano at the Fontana Maggiore in Perugia’ with Laura Jacobus, 19 March 2025 (5-6.30pm GMT)
Join the March Murray Seminar with Laura Jacobus will share her research on A ‘Most Pleasing Flower among Equally Excellent Sculptors’: Nicola and Giovanni Pisano at the Fontana Maggiore in Perugia.
Murray Seminar: ‘Leonardo and Melzi: the role of illustrations in the composition and creation of meaning in the Libro di pittura’ with Juliana Barone, 12 February 2025 (5-6.30pm GMT)
This month’s Murray Seminar is with Dr Juliana Barone, who is presenting their research on Libro di pittura di M. Lionardo da Vinci pittore et scultore fiorentino.
Murray Seminar: ‘Charles of Luxembourg as a visitor at the papal court in Avignon’, Dr Alexandra Gajewski, 21 January 2025 (5-6.30pm GMT)
The next Murray Seminar at Birkbeck University is given by Dr Alexandra Gajewski, focusing on the Charles of Luxembourg at the papal court in Avignon.
Murray Seminar: ‘The Market for Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts c. 1890-1929 and its Consequences’, with Dr Laura Cleaver, Birkbeck, 4 December 2024 (5-6.30pm GMT)
The next Murray Seminar at Birkbeck University is given by Dr Laura Cleaver, focusing on the The Market for Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts.
Online Lecture: Murray Seminar – Eroticism, Emulation and Censorship: the Two Lovers by Giulio Romano, Barbara Furlotti, 10th February 2022 5pm (GMT)
Giulio Romano (1492/1499-1546), Raphael’s favourite pupil, played a key role in the awakening of a new approach to eroticism in Renaissance art. Engaging with openly pornographic subjects and more traditional mythological themes, such as the loves of the gods, Giulio became one of the most imaginative and provocative Renaissance painters of erotically charged scenes. ThisContinue reading “Online Lecture: Murray Seminar – Eroticism, Emulation and Censorship: the Two Lovers by Giulio Romano, Barbara Furlotti, 10th February 2022 5pm (GMT)”
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