V&A/RCA Course in Design History
Material Cultures of the Renaissance
Research Seminars Spring 2010
All seminars are held at 4.30pm in Seminar Room A of the Research Department at the Victoria and Albert Museum.
Access to Seminar Room A is via the entrance to the Research Department. To get there, go the top of the staircase
decorated with ceramic tiles that leads from the Asian Sculpture Galleries (Rooms 17-20) on the ground floor, up
past the Silver Gallery (Room 70a). Please allow at least five minutes to get to the seminar room from the Museum
entrances.
All those with a research interest in the field are welcome. Admission to the Museum is free and the event itself is
free of charge. Please contact Loraine Long at 020 7942 2574 ([log in to unmask]) or Lindsay Flood at 0207 942 2576
([log in to unmask]) with any questions.
20 January
The Birth of the Inventor: Innovation and Patents in Renaissance Italy
Luca Molà, University of Warwick
27 January
Adam van Vianen and the Perception of Perception
Richard Checketts, V&A/RCA History of Design
3 February
(Title to be announced)
Sandra Cavallo, Royal Holloway (University of London)
10 February
The Wartime Printshop in Venice: Exploring the Market for Printed Texts and Imagery during the War of the League of
Cambrai (1509–17)
Krystina Stermole, Boston University in Venice
17 February
Chelsea House London – Lionel Cranfield, Inigo Jones and Fabrication of Nobility at the Jacobean Court
Ed Town (National Trust/University of Sussex) and Olivia Fryman (Historic Palaces/Kingston University)
24 February
The Archaeology of Reformation: Exploring Confessional Allegiance in Sixteenth-Century Domestic Material Culture
David Gaimster, Society of Antiquaries of London
3 March
The Uses of Music: Buying, Reading and Learning in the Renaissance
Iain Fenlon, King’s College (University of Cambridge)
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