Relief and representation: the framing of honour in Italian art of the
early to high Renaissance.
Dr Alison Wright
Tuesday 27 June 2006
18.00pm
An illustrated talk organised by the Italian Studies Library Group
At the British Library
Conference Centre, Meeting Room 4
96 Euston Road
London NW1 2DB
Focusing on a period of rapid social and political change, the talk will
address the differing ways in which relief sculpture was employed in
Italian art as a way of framing and doing honour to the subject
represented. With reference to commemorative monuments, paintings and
manuscript illuminations, the lecturer will examine the means and
motives for related effects achieved in these different media.
Dr Alison Wright is Reader in Italian Late Medieval and Renaissance Art
at University College London, an institution she joined in 1993 after
completing both her degree and Ph.D. at the Courtauld Institute. Dr
Wright co-curated the exhibition Renaissance Florence: the Art of the
1470s at the National Gallery in 1999-2000 and her monograph The
Pollaiuolo Brothers: the Arts of Florence and Rome was published last
year by Yale University Press. Dr Wright's research has focused on
Italian, especially Florentine, painting, sculpture and drawing/design
in relation to artistic practice, patronage, ideology and function.
The talk will be followed by a drinks reception generously sponsored by
Casalini Libri, the leading supplier of Italian books.
To attend, please register your name and address with Chris Michaelides
at the British Library
Tel. 020 7412 7531
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Attendance is free
(with apologies for cross-posting)
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