SYLVIA LENNIE ENGLAND SCHOLARSHIP
Dear Colleague,

I would be most grateful if you could inform final-year students or recent
graduates of the enclosed papers (following). The closing date for
applications is 31st January.  Please could you also arrange for a copy of
this e-mail to be posted on the appropriate notice board in your department.

Thank you very much for your assistance.

Yours sincerely,

Marta Ajmar
Course Tutor (Renaissance)
V&A/RCA MA Course in the History of Design

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Sylvia Lennie England Scholarship

For the study of the decorative arts and material culture of the
Renaissance at MA level


Applications are invited for this two-year scholarship designed to support
a student on the History of Design MA Course (Renaissance specialism)
taught jointly by the Victoria & Albert Museum and the Royal College of Art.

This two-year full-time specialism offers a unique opportunity to study
Renaissance decorative arts and material culture in Italy and England,
within their wider European context. At the heart of its  interdisciplinary
approach is a desire to understand why human artefacts look the way they do
within a broad historical perspective. Among the issues the course
considers are: artistic skills and workshop production, science and
technology, patronage and consumption, objects in the domestic interior and
aesthetic ideas.

The unrivalled Renaissance collections of the V&A provide a highly
stimulating context for such study. Students also have an opportunity to
research and work on a project with curators in one of the collections. The
rich holdings of books and manuscripts of the National Art Library are also
available to students. The RCA, an institution totally dedicated to the
postgraduate study of art and design, supplies an academic framework for
investigating design processes within the broader context of historical and
contemporary design practice. The teaching programme includes visiting
lecturers from: The Warburg Institute, Royal Holloway College (University
of London), University of Sussex, The British Museum and Imperial College
of Science, Technology and Medicine. Speakers for the open programme of
Research Seminars have included: Richard Goldthwaite, Peter Burke, Paul
Hills, Suzy Butters, Evelyn Welch, Deborah Howard, Caroline Elam, Lisa
Jardine and many others.

For further details contact Marta Ajmar, Course Tutor, Tel 0207 942 2591,
e-mail [log in to unmask] or Katrina Royall, Course Administrator, Tel 0207
942 2574, Fax 0207 942 2592, e-mail [log in to unmask] Or write to them
at, Research Department, The Victoria and Albert Museum, Cromwell Road,
London SW7 2RL. To find out more about the MA Course, you can also visit
our website at www.hod.rca.ac.uk


Deadline: all applications to be received by Thursday 31st January 2002


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Rupert Shepherd
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Material Renaissance Project
Essex House
University of Sussex
Falmer, Brighton BN1 9QQ, U.K.
Tel. +44 (0)1273 872544     Fax +44 (0)1273 678644
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http://www.sussex.ac.uk/Units/arthist/matren/
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