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Please find below an updated list of events in January together with those scheduled for February.
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January Events
Wednesday 9 January 2008, 4.30pm – Evelyn Welch (Queen Mary), ‘Smelling Things in Renaissance Italy’, (Renaissance
Decorative Arts and Culture Seminar) Seminar Room A, Research Department, Victoria and Albert Museum.
Thursday 10 January 2008, 5.30pm – Stephen Campbell (The Johns Hopkins University), ‘Mantegna and the Sacred
Image’, (Research Forum Visiting Professor Programme) Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre, Courtauld Institute of Art.
Thursday 10 January 2008, 5.30pm – Marc Boone (University of Ghent) & Isabella Lazzarini (Università del
Molise), ‘Europe North and South - a Meaningful Divide? Institutions and Written Records in Italy and Flanders
(14th-15th centuries)’, (European History 1150-1550 Seminar) Low Countries Room, Institute of Historical Research,
Senate House.
Tuesday 15 January 2008, 5.30pm – Stephen Campbell (The Johns Hopkins University), ‘Matter, Sensation, and the
Afterlife of Giorgione in Venetian Painting’, (Research Forum Visiting Professor Programme) Research Forum South
Room, Courtauld Institute of Art.
Wednesday 16 January 2008, 4.30pm – Matthew Johnson (University of Southampton), ‘Patterns and Processes in English
Vernacular Architecture’, (Renaissance Decorative Arts and Culture Seminar) Seminar Room A, Research Department,
Victoria and Albert Museum.
Wednesday 16 January, 6.30pm – Peter Burke (University of Cambridge), ‘Translating Languages and Cultures in the
Renaissance’, (Renaissance Witnessed Seminar) The Mason Lecture Theatre, Queen Mary.
Thursday 17 January 2008, 5pm – Catherine Fletcher (Royal Holloway), ‘‘Expert in war, having also many friends’:
Gregorio Casali, an Italian mercenary-diplomat in the service of Henry VIII’, (Late Medieval and Early Modern Italy
Seminar) 3rd Floor Seminar Room, Institute of Historical Research, Senate House.
Thursday 17 January 2008, 5.30pm – Beat Kumin (University of Warwick), ‘Tavern Fare: Food, Drink, and Consumer
Taste in Early Modern Public Houses’, (Society, Culture and Belief, 1500-1800 Seminar) Ecclesiastical History Room,
Institute of Historical Research, Senate House.
Monday 21 January 2008, 5.30pm – Stephen Campbell (The Johns Hopkins University), ‘Mantegna’s Hagiography:
Exemplarity and Irony’, (Research Forum Visiting Professor Programme) Kenneth Clarke Lecture Theatre, Courtauld
Institute of Art.
Tuesday 22 January 2008, 5.30pm – Stephen Campbell (The Johns Hopkins University), ‘Sacred Naturalism: Devotional
Painting and the Modern Manner in Brescia before the Council of Trent’, (Research Forum Visiting Professor
Programme) Research Forum South Room, Courtauld Institute of Art.
Wednesday 23 January 2008, 4.30pm – Elizabeth Currie (Royal College of Art), ‘An Art of Collaboration: Making and
Buying Clothing in Sixteenth-Century Florence’, (Renaissance Decorative Arts and Culture Seminar) Seminar Room A,
Research Department, Victoria and Albert Museum.
Wednesday 30 January 2008, 4.30pm – Alexander Marr (University of St Andrew’s), ‘The Material Culture of
Mathematics in Late Renaissance Italy’, (Renaissance Decorative Arts and Culture Seminar) Seminar Room A, Research
Department, Victoria and Albert Museum
Thursday 31 January 2008, 5pm – Susan Foister (National Gallery), ‘Holbein, Antonio Toto and the market for Italian
painting in early Tudor England’, (Late Medieval and Early Modern Italy Seminar) 3rd Floor Seminar Room, Institute
of Historical Research, Senate House.
Thursday 31 January 2008, 5.30pm – Miri Rubin (Kings College London), ‘Tasting God’s Body’, (Society, Culture and
Belief, 1500-1800 Seminar) Ecclesiastical History Room, Institute of Historical Research, Senate House.
February Events
Wednesday 6 February, 4.30pm – Catherine Richardson (University of Kent), ‘Material Communities in Early Modern
England’, (Renaissance Decorative Arts and Culture Seminar) Seminar Room A, Research Department, Victoria and
Albert Museum.
Wednesday 6 February, 6pm – Thomas Dixon, Colin Jones, Kevin Sharpe, John Spurr, Evelyn Welch & Marina Warner, ‘An
Interdisciplinary Conversation on Stuart Clark’s Vanities of the Eye: Vision in Early Modern European Culture’,
(Renaissance Witnessed Seminar) The Skeel Lecture Theatre, Queen Mary.
Monday 11 February 2008, 6pm – Michael Bury (University of Edinburgh), ‘Controlling the Viewing of Private
Collections in Sixteenth- and Early-Seventeenth-Century Rome’, (Collecting and Display, 100BC to 1700AD Seminar)
Room ST275 (2nd Floor), Stewart House (by Russell Square entrance to Senate House).
Monday 11 February 2008, 5pm – John Henderson (Birkbeck College), ‘Health, Disease and the Environment: Florence
and London Compared’, (European History 1500-1800 Seminar) Low Countries Room, Institute of Historical Research,
Senate House.
Wednesday 13 February 2008, 4.30pm – Sarah Bercusson (Queen Mary/Victoria and Albert Museum), ‘The Trappings of
Power: Giovanna de’ Medici and her Wardrobe’, (Renaissance Decorative Arts and Culture Seminar) Seminar Room A,
Research Department, Victoria and Albert Museum.
Thursday 14 February 2008, 5pm – Suzy Knight (Queen Mary), ‘Something old, something new: the trousseau and private
devotion in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Florence’, (Late Medieval and Early Modern Italy Seminar) 3rd Floor
Seminar Room, Institute of Historical Research, Senate House.
Wednesday 20 February 2008, 4.30pm – Anu Korhonen (University of Helsinkin/Queen Mary), ‘False Relations? Beauty,
Gender, and Early Modern Mirrors’, (Renaissance Decorative Arts and Culture Seminar) Seminar Room A, Research
Department, Victoria and Albert Museum.
Wednesday 20 February 2008, 5.30pm – Kim Woods (The Open University), ‘The Master of Rimini and Early Alabaster
Imagery in the Netherlands’, (Renaissance Research Seminar) Research Forum South Room, Courtauld Institute of Art.
Friday 22 February 2008, 5.30pm – Jim Bolton (Queen Mary), ‘London Merchants and the Borromei Bank in the 1430s:
Local Credit Networks and the Transfer of Skills’, (Late Medieval Seminar) Ecclesiastical History Room, Institute
of Historical Research, Senate House.
Thursday 28 February 2008, 5pm – Clare Robertson (University of Reading), ‘Annibale Carracci and his late Roman
patrons’, (Late Medieval and Early Modern Italy Seminar) 3rd Floor Seminar Room, Institute of Historical Research,
Senate House.
Thursday 28 February, 5.30pm – James Shaw (University of Sheffield), ‘The Taste for Sweetness: The Consumption of
Confectionary in Renaissance Florence’, (Society, Culture and Belief, 1500-1800 Seminar) Ecclesiastical History
Room, Institute of Historical Research, Senate House.
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