The Warburg Institute Director's Seminar Series invites leading scholars to share new research and fresh perspectives on the key issues in their fields.
All meetings: 5.30pm in the Warburg Institute Lecture Room, University of London, Woburn Square, London WC1H 0AB<https://www.google.com/maps?q=Warburg+Institute+Lecture+Room,+University+of+London,+Woburn+Square,+London+WC1H+0AB&rlz=1C1GCEJ_enGB847GB847&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiuiJ7UrIjnAhUFm1wKHS2EB1AQ_AUoAXoECBMQAw>, followed by a drinks reception in the Common Room.
FREE and open to the public.
Tuesday 28 January 2020: 'Reading Milton Reading Shakespeare'
Dr Jason Scott-Warren (University of Cambridge) and Dr Claire M. L. Bourne (Penn State University) discuss their discovery in 2019 of the identity of the annotator of the Free Library of Philadelphia copy of Shakespeare's first folio.
BOOKING: https://warburg.sas.ac.uk/events/event/21999
Tuesday 10 March 2020: 'The Fallibility of Perception: Lorenzetti's frescoes in Siena's Sala della Pace'
Professor Jules Lubbock (University of Essex)
The dominant tradition of commentary on Ambrogio Lorenzetti's frescoes of Peace and War is text based. The aim is to reconstruct the political theory that Ambrogio is supposed to have illustrated, and which is also assumed to have guided the Sienese government of the Nine. The starting point for this talk to look carefully at the images themselves, and see where they lead.
BOOKING: https://warburg.sas.ac.uk/events/event/22074
Tuesday 24 March 2020: 'Refugee Art Dealers in England in the 1930s - 1940s'
Professor Michael Kauffmann (Professor Emeritus, Courtauld Institute & Honorary Fellow, Warburg Institute)
This lecture will centre on about ten individuals who were friends and colleagues of the speaker's father, Arthur Kauffmann. Formerly director of the Frankfurt branch of the auction house Hugo Helbing, Kauffmann emigrated with his family to London in 1938. England was also the chosen destination of Kauffmann's colleagues such as Grete Ring, Alfred Scharf, Franz Drey, Herbert Bier and Robert Frank. In discussing the effects of emigration on their biographies, the talk will draw upon personal memory as well as knowledge of these individuals' careers. At the same time, the lecture will also reflect on the impact of refugee dealers on the art market in England. The London dealers were indeed very welcoming to the new arrivals at the time, a fact which greatly helped the latter - who considered themselves as refugees rather than exiles - to take root.
BOOKING: https://warburg.sas.ac.uk/events/event/22081
Jon Millington
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