THE WARBURG INSTITUTE
School of Advanced Study | University of London
The Warburg Institute's series of online conversations - Renaissance Lives - continues in the Autumn Term 2023, discussing the ways in which individuals transmitted or changed the lives of traditions, ideas and images.
The series accompanies the publication of biographies by Reaktion Books<https://reaktionbooks.co.uk/>.
Thursdays as follows, 5.30 - 7.00pm (UK time)
ONLINE VIA ZOOM
All welcome, with advance booking.
19 October 2023
Leon Battista Alberti: The Chameleon's Eye<https://warburg.sas.ac.uk/events/renaissance-lives-alberti-2023>
Caspar Pearson (Warburg Institute) in conversation with Fabio Barry (Warburg Institute)
One of the most brilliant and original authors and architects of the entire Renaissance, Leon Battista Alberti had an output that encompassed engineering, surveying, cryptography, poetry, humour, political commentary and more. He employed irony, satire and playful allusion in his written works, and developed a sophisticated approach to architecture that combined the ancient and modern. Born into the Florentine elite, Alberti was nonetheless disadvantaged owing to exile and illegitimacy. As a result, he became an acute analyst of the social institutions of his time, as well as a profoundly existential writer who was intensely interested in the human condition. This new account explores Alberti's life and works, examining how his personal and intellectual preoccupations continually pushed him to engage with an ever-broader spectrum of Renaissance culture.
9 November 2023
Jan van Eyck within his Art<https://warburg.sas.ac.uk/events/renaissance-lives-van-eyck-2023>
Alfred Acres (Georgetown University) in conversation with Rembrandt Duits (Warburg Institute)
Jan van Eyck was one of the most inventive and influential artists in the entire European tradition. The phenomenal realism of his paintings, now six centuries old, still astounds observers in a world accustomed to high-resolution images. But other dimensions of his work are just as original and absorbing. Unlike any earlier artist, Van Eyck infused his paintings with himself. In addition to portraying, reflecting and implying his own presence in a variety of works, he also introduced his voice, hand and mind in an array of inscriptions, signatures and even a personal motto. Incorporating a wealth of new research and recent discoveries within a fresh exploration of the paintings themselves, this book reveals how profoundly Jan van Eyck transformed the very idea of what an artist could be.
30 November 2023
Albrecht Dürer Art and Autobiography<https://warburg.sas.ac.uk/events/renaissance-lives-durer-2023>
David Ekserdjian (University of Leicester) in conversation with Joseph Koerner (Harvard)
The Italian Renaissance is conventionally thought of as the historical period that bore witness to the rise of the individual. Yet no other artist of the time begins to compare with Albrecht Dürer in terms of the almost obsessive interest he displayed in depicting his life, his dreams and his surroundings in his art. Exploring Dürer's life and times, the natural world in his work, and his studies, travel and influences, David Ekserdjian closely examines Dürer's paintings, as well as his drawings and prints, which are often comparatively overlooked, revealing Dürer's remarkable, unique status, both in his own time and across the centuries.
Jon Millington
Academic Engagement and Impact Officer
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