ITALIAN RENAISSANCE SEMINAR
Hilary Term 2008
Mondays at 5 p.m. in St Catherine’s College, Oxford
Convenors: Nicholas Davidson and Gervase Rosser
All Welcome
14 January Helen Hills (York University), ‘Dislocating holiness: City,
place and sanctity in Baroque Italy’
21 January Jill Burke (Edinburgh University), ‘Indecent exposure: Nudity
in Italian Renaissance art’
28 January Fabrizio Nevola (Oxford Brookes University), ‘Commerce in
palaces: urbanism, retail and elite architecture in early modern Italy’
4 February John Henderson (Birkbeck College London), ‘The art of
healing: hospitals in Renaissance Italy’
11 February Alison Wright (University College London), ‘Painted
pedestals and ideal orders in late 15th- and early 16th-century Italian art’
18 February Peter Dent (Courtauld Institute of Art, London), ‘The
speaking sculpture in late medieval and early Renaissance Italy’
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