Oxford Art History Seminar
Michaelmas (Autumn) Term 2007
Wednesday 14 November, 5:00 pm, Dr Charles Robertson (Oxford Brookes
University): "Xanto and Michelangelo: Parallel Practices in Elite Culture"
Wednesday 28 November, 5:00 pm, Dr Fabrizio Nevola (Oxford Brookes
University): "Rewriting the City's Pasts in Stone: Humanists,
Antiquarians and the Built Fabric of Renaissance Siena"
Headley Lecture Theatre, Ashmolean Museum, Beaumont Street, Oxford
Dr Marika Leino, Department of History of Art, Oxford University
Dr Christiana Payne, School of Humanities, Oxford Brookes University
Dr Catherine Whistler, Ashmolean Museum
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Oxford Italian Association Lectures
Wednesday 14 November, 7:30 for 8:00 pm: Dr David Boswell: "Piero della
Francesca (c.1417-92): court painter and muralist"
£1 for members, £3 for non-members, students under thirty admitted free
Mary Ogilvie Theatre, St Anne's College, Oxford
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Institute of Historical Research
LATE-MEDIEVAL & EARLY-MODERN ITALY
Thursday, 11 October, 5:00 pm, Barry Collett: "Was Tito Livio
Frulovisi’s tract De Republica, a new mirror-for-princes, read by More
and Machiavelli?"
Thursday, 25 October, 5:00 pm, Rosa Salzberg: "'In the mouths of
charlatans': Performers and cheap print in Cinquecento Venice"
Thursday, 8 November, 5:00 pm, Guy Geltner: "Brethren behaving badly: a
deviant approach to medieval anti-fraternalism"
Thursday, 6 December, 5:00 pm, Lucy Whitaker: "Polidoro da Caravaggio's
Cupid and Psyche panels: The antique, Raphael and a Neapolitan palace"
3rd-floor Seminar Room, IHR, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1
Convenors: Trevor Dean and Kate Lowe
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The Iconography of Slavery in Europe, 1500-1800
The Warburg Institute, 23-24 November 2007
In this anniversary year of the ending of the slave trade by Britain,
attention has focused on the imagery of abolitionism. But slavery had
long before been a familiar motif of European art. It was associated
with triumph and conquest, metaphorical as well as literal, religious as
well as political. From the early sixteenth century, naked and chained
captives are found crouching at the base of monuments and title-pages,
while architecturally enslaved figures (Caryatids/Atlantes) proliferate
as column substitutes. Increasingly, the reality of slavery impinges on
these iconographic formulae; initially in relation to Turkish galley
slaves, and then, overwhelmingly, with reference to black Africans. The
aim of this conference is to examine, through significant themes and
works, the continuities and disruptions in the imagery of enslavement
between the Renaissance and the Abolitionist movement.
Topics and speakers
Metaphors and Traditions (Elizabeth McGrath, Charles Robertson, Jean-Luc
Liez)
Turks, Moors and Monuments (Jean Michel Massing, Rick Scorza, Jennifer
Montagu, Anthea Brook)
Spain and the Netherlands (Carmen Fracchia, Elmer Kolfin, Ernst van den
Boogaart)
The Limits of Enlightenment (Hendrik Ziegler, Meredith Gamer, David
Bindman, Temi Odumosu)
Full programme at: http://warburg.sas.ac.uk
Registration fee: £10.00 (students £5.00)
For further information contact:
Elizabeth Witchell
The Warburg Institute
School of Advanced Study
Woburn Square
London WC1H OAB
e-mail: Elizabeth. [log in to unmask]
Tel: +44 (0)20 7862 8909
Fax: +44 (0)20 7862 8955
A colloquium organized by the Warburg Institute, with the support of the
British Academy
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Encyclopedia of Furnishing Textiles, Floorcoverings and Home Furnishing
Practices 1200-1950
Clive Edwards
Lund Humphries
October 2007 260 x 248 mm, 312 pages
153 illustrations, 12 in colour
ISBN 978-0-7546-3265-8
Hardback
£75.00
The Encyclopedia of Furnishing Textiles is an accessible and
comprehensive reference work describing the furnishing textiles, soft
furnishings and floor coverings used in Western domestic interiors over
the period 1200-1950.
Included with the descriptions and histories are details of the
manufacture, distribution and consumption of furnishing goods. The
Encyclopedia incorporates details of most
Historic furnishing practices (which have often been dealt with
individually), and benefits from extensive consultation of primary or
out-of-print sources to show how the products were viewed historically.
The book includes nearly 1200 entries covering generic topics such as:
woven textiles, printed textiles, embroidered textiles, tapestry,
painted cloths, yarns, dyes, carpets, rugs, non-woven fabrics,
oil-cloths, wall materials, upholstery materials, loose covers,
trimmings (passementeries), beds, cushions, and many more. Entries vary
according to their role and importance but usually include a
description, historical explanations of use, technical details, and
primary and secondary source material .
A companion volume to the author's Encyclopedia of Furniture Materials,
Trades and Techniques, this book will be an essential resource for
students, historians, curators, textile designers, interior designers,
conservators and collectors.
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Dominican Women and Renaissance Art: The Convent of San Domenico at Pisa
Edited by Ann Roberts, Lake Forest College, USA
Ashgate
January 2008, c.350 pages
86 b&w illustrations
ISBN 978-0-7546-5530-5
Hardback
c. £65.00
Ann Roberts here identifies and examines thirty objects from the convent
of San Domenico of Pisa, commissioned for and made by fifteenth-century
nuns. Roberts analyzes the social and religious functions of the images,
firmly grounding her interpretation in the values of the nuns’ Order,
and in the political and social concerns of their city. A catalogue of
works is included, and previously unpublished related documents are
presented in the appendix.
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