Research Forum
Calendar: summer Term 2011
April to July
All events were held at The Courtauld
Institute of Art, Somerset House, Strand, London WC2R 0RN, unless
stated otherwise. Events were free and open to members of the public unless otherwise stated.
the printed image within a culture of print: prints, publishing and the early modern arts in europe, 1450-1700
Saturday, 9 April 2011
10.00 - 18.05, Research Forum South Room (tbc), (with registration from 9.30)
Abraham Bosse, Graveurs en taille douce au burin et à l’eau forte, etching, 1643, London, British Museum. © The Trustees of the British Museum
Speaker(s): Marisa Bass (Harvard University), Susanna Berger (Cambridge University), Christophe Brouard (Université Paris I - Panthéon Sorbonne).....
Ticket/entry details: £15 (£10 Courtauld staff/students and concessions) Please send a cheque.....
Organised by: Sheila McTighe, Emily Gray and Anita Sganzerla (The Courtauld Institute of Art)
From the fifteenth through the seventeenth century, the advent of print utterly changed the production of images. A repertoire of images of all kinds, from the crudest woodcut to the most virtuosic engraving, from .....read more
Americanists Abroad: current research in the united kingdom and europe
Saturday 16 April 2011
10.00 - 17.10, Research Forum South Room (with registration from 09.30)
The Courtauld Institute of Art
Benjamin West, Allegory of Botany, 18th century. Pen and ink, wash (brown and blue) on paper, Acquisition: Sir Robert Clermont Witt; bequest; 1952; D.1952.RW.415. © The Samuel Courtauld Trust, The Courtauld Gallery, London
Speaker(s): Marie-Stéphanie Delamaire (Columbia University), Janet Floyd (King’s College London), Christine Guth (Royal College of Art and Victoria and Albert Museum), Jody Patterson (Institut National d'Histoire de l'Art).....
Ticket/entry details: £15 (£10 students)
Please send a cheque
made payable to ‘Courtauld Institute of Art’.....
Organised by: Dr. Wendy Ikemoto (Terra Foundation for American Art Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow, The Courtauld Institute of Art)
American art history is in the process of internationalizing. The past decade has witnessed a burgeoning of American art exhibitions, centres of study, and scholars abroad, American art history is in the process of .....read more
practice for everyday life?
Wednesday, 27 April 2011
18.00, Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre
Taus Makhacheva Rehlen (avar language flock), 2009 HD video, 7’21”. © Courtesy of the artist
Speaker(s): artist, Taus Makhacheva and independent curator Nadim Samman. Chair: Dr Sarah Wilson (The Courtauld Institute of Art)
Ticket/entry details: Open to all, free admission
Organised by: Dr Sarah Wilson (The Courtauld Institute of Art) and Sophie Benjamin (Calvert 22)
In the second of a series of talks in collaboration with The Courtauld Institute of Art initiated to broaden the range of discussion around the exhibition programme at Calvert 22, a panel will look at themes....read more
corpus of romanesque sculpture in britain and ireland annual lecture 2011
Manpower, Ideology and Travel: Twelfth-Century Architectural Sculpture in Northern Spain
Tuesday, 3 May 2011
17.30 - 18.30, Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre
Old Cathedral, Salamanca: Capital in north nave arcade. Photo: John McNeill
Speaker(s): John McNeill FSA (Oxford University Department of Continuing Education)
Ticket/entry details: Open to all, free admission
Organised by: Ron Baxter and Nicola Coldstream
Unlike Romanesque architecture in Italy and France, where regional identity is strongly defined, that of northern Spain is unusually open to the work of masons and sculptors from beyond the Iberian peninsula. Reasons for this are not hard to find for the period between c.1075 and c.1120. What is less clear is why this situation endures through....read more
east wing nine lecture 2011 CANCELLED
Francis Bacon in Moscow: James Birch in conversation with Darren Coffield
Wednesday, 4th May 2011
18.00 -19.00, Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre
Speaker(s): James Birch (curator) and Darren Coffield (artist)
Ticket/entry details: Open to all, free admission
Organised by: East Wing Nine committee (www.eastwingnine.co.uk)
James Birch has been a gallery owner, art dealer and curator for thirty years. He presented Grayson Perry’s first solo show in 1984 at his gallery on the King’s Road, before moving to Soho in 1987 where he curated a series of exhibitions that brought new light to the British Surrealists, including Clive Barker, Colin Self, and Alan Jones.....read more
Research forum visiting professor lecture
The Monster Picasso
Thursday, 5 May 2011
16.00 - 17.30, Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre
Speaker(s): T. J. Clark (Professor Emeritus of Modern Art at the University of California, Berkeley; and Visiting Professor, University of York)
Ticket/entry details: Open to all, free admission
Organised by: Professor Caroline Arscott
This lecture focuses on the large painting Picasso did in 1927, Painter and Model, now in Tehran. It examines the turn in Picasso's work in the later 1920s towards an imagery of sex and violence, and, more generally, the meaning of monstrosity in his art. In particular.....read more
performing Research: Art History not for publication
A conference organised by the Performing Art History Special Interest Group
Friday 6 May 2011
12.00 -18.15, Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre
The Courtauld Institute of Art
Screen-capture of YouTube video, created for Hold Your Horses by L’Ogre
Speaker(s): Thomas Ardill (Tate), Emma Cheatle (University College London), Diana Cheng (McGill University, School of Architecture), James Day.....
Ticket/entry details: Open to all, free admission, but please book in advance preferably by 12 noon Wednesday 4 May.....
Organised by: Jack Hartnell with Dr Katie Scott
Whilst the methodologies of art history have been subjected to radical critique and constant renewal since the 1970s, our conceptualisation of research aims and our expression of research outcomes have remained......read more
2011 london seminar in roman art
The Advent of the Divi and the Fate of their Imagery
Monday, 9 May 2011
17.30, Royal Holloway London Annex, 2 Gower Street, London WC1, Seminar Room G3
Speaker(s): Michael Koortbojian (Princeton University)
Ticket/entry details: Open to all, free admission
Organised by: Amanda Claridge (A.Claridge@rhul.ac.uk) and Will Wootton (Will.Wootton@kcl.ac.uk)
Supported by the Institute of Classical Studies, Royal Holloway University of London, The Courtauld Institute of Art's Research Forum
Research seminar: Modern and Contemporary
The Self and the Others in Documentary Representation: Andy Warhol and Trinh T. Minh-Ha as Examples
Monday, 9 May 2011
18.00, Research Forum South Room
Speaker(s): Pei-Kuei Tsai (The Courtauld Institute of Art)
Ticket/entry details: Open to all, free admission
Organised by: Dr Gavin Parkinson
inaugural richard mcdougall lecture
Coming of Age: John Ruskin’s Drawings and Watercolours from the Grand Tour of 1840-41
Wednesday, 11 May 2011
18.00, Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre
John Ruskin, Bay of Naples, 1841. Watercolour, gouache (white), graphite on paper. Acquisition: The Courtauld, Jeanne (Miss); bequest; 2005 D.2005.XX.10. Copyright: © The Samuel Courtauld Trust, The Courtauld Gallery, London
Speaker(s): Stephen Wildman (Professor of the History of Art and Director, Ruskin Library and Research Centre, Lancaster University)
Ticket/entry details: Open to all, free admission
Organised by: Ernst Vegelin/ Caroline Arscott
Ruskin’s early drawings and watercolours have been the subject of very little detailed study. In this lecture, Stephen Wildman will share the fruits of investigating the Grand Tour to France and Italy made by Ruskin, then aged 21, with his parents between September 1840 and June 1841. By his own account he made “47 large size sketches and 34 small”, many of which it is possible to identify; of surviving drawings, the largest number is in the Ruskin.....read more
caroline villers research fellowship
Thursday, 12 May 2011
18.00 - 19.00, room tbc
Speaker(s): Dr Rebecca Farbstein (Visiting Fellow, The McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge; and Caroline Villers Research Fellow 2009-10, The Courtauld); Elisabeth Reissner (Lecturer, The Courtauld; and Caroline Villers Research Fellow 2007-07, The Courtauld); Kathryn Rudy (Lecturer in Art History before 1800, University of St Andrews; and Caroline Villers Associate Fellow 2009-10, The Courtauld); and Kate Stonor (Caroline Villers Research Fellow 2010-11, The Courtauld)
Ticket/entry details: Open to all, free admission
Organised by: Dr Aviva Burnstock
To mark the continuing success of the Caroline Villers Research Fellowship four recent Fellows will present the results of their research, from Pre-historic Portable Art to Cezanne, in the emerging field of Technical Art History.
leonardo da vinci society annual lecture 2011
Leonardo da Vinci and the Perfect Body: Nakedness and Humanity in Renaissance Italy
Friday, 13 May 2011
18.00 - 19.00, Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre
Speaker(s): Jill Burke (University of Edinburgh)
Ticket/entry details: Open to all, free admission
Organised by: Professor Francis Ames-Lewis (Birkbeck)
2011 london seminar in roman art
Speaking of the Dead: The Rhetorical Strategies of Roman Sarcophagi
Monday, 16 May 2011
17.30, Royal Holloway London Annex, 2 Gower Street, London WC1, Seminar Room G3
Speaker(s): Zahra Newby (University of Warwick)
Ticket/entry details: Open to all, free admission
Organised by: Amanda Claridge (A.Claridge@rhul.ac.uk) and Will Wootton (Will.Wootton@kcl.ac.uk)
Supported by the Institute of Classical Studies, Royal Holloway University of London, The Courtauld Institute of Art's Research Forum
last orders? the art and architecture of religious orders in england, c1350-1540
Tuesday, 17 May 2011
10.00 - 18.15, Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre (with registration from 9.30)
The Courtauld Institute of Art
Evesham Abbey (detail). Photo: Courtesy of Laura Cleaver
Speaker(s): Pnina Arad (Hebrew University of Jerusalem), Jessica Berenbeim (Harvard University/The Courtauld Institute of Art), Michael Carter (The Courtauld.....
Ticket/entry details: Please book in advance..... email to ResearchForumEvents@courtauld.ac.uk. Payment £5 (general public and students) in cash on arrival......
Organised by: Michael Carter and Jessica Berenbeim (The Courtauld ) with support of Celia Jennings.....
In contrast to the arts of the so-called ‘golden age’ of English religious life during the High Middle Ages, the visual culture of subsequent generations of .....read more
utopia I: Russian Art and Culture in 1900-1930
Conference
Saturday, 21 May 2011
09.45 - 17.00 , Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre (with registration from 09.15)
Kazimir Malevich Architekton in Front of a Skyscraper (Suprematist transformation of New York), photomontage, 1924, whereabouts unknown. Published in Praesens, No.1, Warsaw 1926. Speaker(s): Robin Aizlewood (UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies), Natalia Budanova (The Courtauld Institute of Art), Dr Muireann Maguire (University of Oxford), Prof John Milner (The Courtauld Institute of Art).....
Ticket/entry details: £15 (£10 Courtauld staff/students and concessions) Please send a cheque .....
Organised by: Drs Maria Kokkori and Maria Mileeva
The utopian intellectual tradition has a long history that some trace back to Plato’s Republic, even though most scholars consider Thomas More’s Utopia as the definitive starting point of modern utopian thought in the Western world. Utopia comes from the Greek ου (no).....read more
2011 london seminar in roman art
The Images of the “Triad” of Heliopolis-Baalbek (Jupiter, Venus and Mercury): Interpretations and Iconographic Problems
Monday, 23 May 2011
17.30, Royal Holloway London Annex, 2 Gower Street, London WC1, Seminar Room G3
Speaker(s): Andreas Kropp (University of Nottingham)
Ticket/entry details: Open to all, free admission
Organised by: Amanda Claridge (A.Claridge@rhul.ac.uk) and Will Wootton (Will.Wootton@kcl.ac.uk)
Supported by the Institute of Classical Studies, Royal Holloway University of London, The Courtauld Institute of Art's Research Forum
Research seminar: Modern and Contemporary
Topographies of Memory: The Influence of Architectural Theory and Metaphysical Art on the Work of Gabriele Basilico
Monday, 23 May 2011
18.00, Research Forum South Room
Speaker(s): Alexandra Tommasini (The Courtauld Institute of Art)
Ticket/entry details: Open to all, free admission
Organised by: Dr Gavin Parkinson
Modernities in south asian art
Rethinking Calligraphic Abstraction
Tuesday, 24 May 2011
17.30, Research Forum South Room
Speaker(s): Dr Amna Malik (Lecturer at the Slade School of Fine Art, UCL)
Ticket/entry details: Open to all, free admission
Organised by: Emilia Terracciano with Professor Deborah Swallow (The Courtauld Institute of Art)
Two opposing paradigms, the eurocentric and the planetary, characterise the question of modernity. The seminar group 'Modernities in South Asia' will discuss issues around modernity and modernism in the context of South Asian art and architecture. The forum will give academics, researchers and curators working in this field, the.....read more
Research seminar: Renaissance
From Simple to Complex Sensations: Drunkenness and the Representation of Wine in Early Modern Painting
Wednesday, 25 May 2011
17.30, Research Forum South Room
Speaker(s): François Quiviger
(Warburg Institute)
Ticket/entry details: Open to all, free admission
Organised by: Dr Susie Nash
'creative writing and art history' - publication launch
Thursday, 26 May 2011
18.00, Front Hall, The Courtauld Institute of Art
Front cover of 'Creative Writing and Art History', special issue of the Art History JournalTicket/entry details: Open to all, free admission
Organised by: Dr. Catherine Grant (The Courtauld Institute of Art)
A launch celebrating a special issue of the journal Art History on the theme of “Creative Writing and Art History”. Arising from the Research Forum’s Writing Art History project, the collection presents one theme from this series of lectures and symposia, highlighting work from the project’s seminar group. The essays consider the ways in which.....read more
marie-louise von motesiczky (1906-1996) exile and agency
Friday 27 May 2011
15.00 - 18.40, Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre
The Courtauld Institute of Art
Marie-Louise von Motesiczky, Self-Portrait with Red Hat, 1938, oil on canvas, 51 x 36 cm, ©The Marie-Louise von Motesiczky Charitable TrustSpeaker(s): Edmund de Waal; Sander L. Gilman (Emory University); Jill Lloyd; Sean Rainbird (Staatsgalerie Stuttgart); Ines Schlenker
Ticket/entry details: Open to all, free admission but advance booking is required by Wednesday 25 May. Please contact: ResearchForumEvents@courtauld.ac.uk
Organised by: Dr. Shulamith Behr (The Courtauld Institute of Art)
From its foundation in 1992, the Marie-Louise von Motesiczky Charitable Trust has fostered research into the life and work of this remarkable woman artist who was born in Vienna, going into enforced exile with her mother in 1938, first in the Netherlands, then in Britain in 1939. To mark the occasion of the publication of the catalogue raisonné of her paintings... read more
Caroline villers research fellowship
Rubens in The Courtauld Collection, 1608-12
Tuesday, 31 May 2011
18.00, Research Forum South Room
Speaker(s): Clare Richardson & Kate Stonor (Caroline Villers Research Fellows, The Courtauld Institute of Art)
Ticket/entry details: Open to all, free admission
Organised by: Dr Aviva Burnstock
In 2009 -10 Clare Richardson and Kate Stonor undertook the restoration of The Courtauld Gallery’s Rubens, Moses and the Brazen Serpent, and this year they are working on the restoration of Cain Slaying Abel. Their research as Caroline Villers Fellows is stimulated by the technical findings brought to light by these treatments. In order to shed light.....read more
Research seminar: Medieval work in progress in collaboration with Giotto's o
Landscapes of Prayer in Franciscan Stained-Glass and Painted Panel: Cave, Revelation, Wound
Wednesday, 1 June 2011
17.30, Research Forum South Room
Speaker(s): Professor Amy Neff (University of Tennessee, Knoxville)
Ticket/entry details: Open to all, free admission
Organised by: Professor John Lowden / Dr Joanna Cannon
Intersections: Architecture and Poetry
Friday 3 June 2011, 14.00 - 18.15 (with registration from 13.30)
Saturday 4 June 2011, 10.00 - 18.30 (with registration from 09.30)
Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre, The Courtauld Institute of Art
Mausoleum at Shah-i Zinda Necropolis, Samarqand, late 13th century. (Photograph: James Scott). Robert Adam with Antonio Zucchi, Detail of Music Room Ceiling, Home House, c.1777. (The Courtauld Institute of Art, Conway Library)
Speaker(s): Fiona Anderson (King’s College London), Andrea de Meo (Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa), Myrtha Ehlert (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität), Katie Faulkner.....
Ticket/entry details: £25 (£15 students) Please send a cheque made payable to ‘Courtauld Institute of Art’ to.....
Organised by: Ayla Lepine and Caroline Levitt (The Courtauld Institute of Art)
‘We cover the universe with drawings we have lived’ Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space, 1958.
Poetry and architecture, brought together by Gaston Bachelard in his seminal investigation of lived-in space, are art-forms that nevertheless continue critically...... read more
Giotto's o lecture
Visual Forms of Franciscan Pastoral Care: The Humble Man's Wedding at Cana
Tuesday, 7 June 2011
17.30, Research Forum South Room
San Francesco, Assisi, Umbria, Italy. Photograph © Courtauld Institute of Art
Speaker(s): Professor Amy Neff (University of Tennessee, Knoxville)
Ticket/entry details: Open to all, free admission
Organised by: Dr Joanna Cannon
Analysis of two late thirteenth-century images of the Wedding at Cana – in the Upper Church of S. Francesco at Assisi, and in the manuscript of the Supplicationes variae (Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, MS Plut 25.3) – forms the heart of this lecture.....read more
Research seminar: Medieval work in progress
Notes on the Sherborne Missal
Wednesday, 8 June 2011
17.30, Research Forum South Room
Speaker(s): Jessica Berenbeim (Harvard University; and The Courtauld Institute of Art)
Ticket/entry details: Open to all, free admission
Organised by: Professor John Lowden
29th Gerry Hedley Student Symposium
Friday, 10 June 2011
09.30, Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre (with registration from 08.45)
Gerry Hedley (1949-1990)
Speaker(s): Caroline Baker, Mark Coombs, Rosie Gleave, Harriet Pearson and Genevieve Silvester (The Courtauld Institute of Art), as well as Nelly von Aderkas and Victoria Sutcliffe (Hamilton Kerr Institute).
Ticket/entry details: £20 (£15 concessions for students). Spaces are limited, so early booking is advisable. All delegates must be registered by 1st of June 2011...
Organised by: Second year Conservation & Technology students of The Courtauld Institute of Art (Judith Lee, Sarah Freeman, Amy Griffin, Anna Cooper and Luciana Ackerlund)
The annuaI student-led conference is named after Gerry Hedley, a Reader at The Courtauld Institute of Art, who taught generations of Conservation students and was a leader in research before his death in 1990... read more
The Courtauld collections
Conservation and Art Historical Analysis: Works from The Courtauld Gallery
Monday, 13 June 2011
12.30 - 14.00, Research Forum South Room
Speaker(s): Research Forum Research Associates Anna Cooper, Harriet Pearson, Roxanne Sperber and Alexandra Thom
Ticket/entry details: The Courtauld Institute of Art's research active staff, postgraduate students and Associate Scholars. RSVP by 12noon, Wednesday 8 June to Researchforum@courtauld.ac.uk if you plan to attend
Organised by: Drs Aviva Burnstock and Caroline Campbell
This is the second of two presentations by this year's Research Associates appointed to the Courtauld Collections project. Two Research Associates, studying art history, with two more from the Conservation & Technology Department (easels) will present the results of their research, on two paintings from The Courtauld Gallery - a fourteenth- century Florentine panel painting and a sixteenth-century painting of “Job and his Comforters” - which are undergoing conservation.
Research seminar: Modern and Contemporary
Monk or Lover? The Nineteenth Century Artist’s Dilemma
Monday, 13 June 2011
18.00, Research Forum South Room
Speaker(s): Lois Oliver (The Courtauld Institute of Art)
Ticket/entry details: Open to all, free admission
Organised by: Dr Gavin Parkinson
Research seminar: History of photography
Representations of Girls in Contemporary Art Photography
Wednesday, 15 June 2011
17.30, Research Forum South Room
Front cover (detail) of Girls! Girls! Girls! in contemporary art, edited by Catherine Grant and Lori Waxman (Intellect Books, 2011)
Speaker(s): Harriet Riches (Kingston University) and Lucy Soutter (Royal College of Art)
Ticket/entry details: Open to all, free admission
Organised by: Alexandra Moschovi (alexandra.moschovi@sunderland.ac.uk), Julian Stallabrass (julian.stallabrass@courtauld.ac.uk) or Catherine Grant (catherine.grant@courtauld.ac.uk)
This seminar celebrates the launch of the publication Girls! Girls! Girls! in contemporary art, edited by Catherine Grant and Lori Waxman. The two speakers will present research on the representation of girlhood in contemporary art photography, with an introduction by one of the.....read more
new landscapes in nineteenth-century Art history: honouring Professor John House
Conference
Thursday, 23 June 2011
10.00 – 17.30, Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre (with registration from 9.30)
Claude Monet, Autumn effect at Argenteuil, 1873. Oil on canvas. © The Samuel Courtauld Trust, The Courtauld Gallery, London
Speaker(s): Andre Dombrowski (University of Pennsylvania); Linda Goddard (University of St Andrews); Jon Kear (University of Kent); Kathleen Mclauchlan (Morley College and the V & A Museum); Alister Mill (The Courtauld Institute of Art); Elizabeth Prettejohn.....
Ticket/entry details: £15 (£10 Courtauld staff/students and concessions) Please send a cheque .....
Organised by: Dr Claire O'Mahony (University of Oxford)
During the three decades of Professor House’s career at The Courtauld Institute of Art, the terrain of nineteenth-century art history and curatorship has witnessed transformations reminiscent in scale to Baron Haussmann’s project. Twelve University Lecturers and museum professionals.....read more
Field of action. the moscow conceptual school in context
Thursday 30 June 2011
18.30, Education Space, INIVA, Rivington Place, London EC2A 3BA
Andrei Filippov, Book on Skates, 1989-2004, Collection Ekaterina and Vladimir Semenikhin Speaker(s): artist Vitaly Komar, Elena Kuprina-Lyakhovich and David Thorp, co-curators of the exhibition, writer and art historian Elizaveta Butakova.
Chair: Sarah Wilson (The Courtauld Institute of Art)
Ticket/entry details: Open to all, free admission but advance booking required via Eventbrite: http://www.eventbrite.com/event/1759961091
Organised by: Sarah Wilson (The Courtauld Institute of Art) and Lina Dzuverovic (Calvert 22)
In the third in a series of talks organised by Calvert 22 and The Courtauld Institute of Art Research Forum, a select panel explores key themes raised by the exhibition Field of Action. The Moscow Conceptual School in Context a specially adapted exhibition for Calvert 22 ..... read more
To Tweet or Not to Tweet: Social Media and Museums
Thursday, 7 July 2011
6.00 - 7.30pm, Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre
Speaker(s): include Katy Beale (Creative Producer at Culture Hack Day and freelance digital consultant), Emma McLean (Digital Marketing Officer, National Maritime Museum, London), Jesse Ringham (Digital Communications Manager, Tate, London)
Ticket/entry details: Open to all, free admission
Organised by: MA Programme Curating the Art Museum in collaboration with the Research Forum
With the growing ubiquity and relevance of social media, this Exhibiting Research takes as its focus the relationship between museums and social media. Museum audiences increasingly rely on social media. Facebook, Twitter and blogs have become communication tools, allowing people to share events, to learn about forthcoming exhibitions, to access visitors’ information, and to.....read more
Taking Shape: Italian AltArpieces before 1500
Symposium
Friday, 8 July 2011
10.00 – 16.30 (with registration from 9.30), Research Forum South Room, The Courtauld Institute of Art and The National Gallery
Francesco Botticini, Detail from The Assumption of the Virgin Altarpiece, probably about 1475-6, tempera on wood, National Gallery, LondonSpeaker(s): Caroline Campbell (The Courtauld Gallery), Joanna Cannon (The Courtauld Institute of Art), Caroline Elam (independent scholar), Christa Gardner von Teuffel (University of Warwick), Dillian Gordon (formerly The National Gallery, London), Jim Harris (The Courtauld Institute of Art), Amanda Lillie (University of York).....
Ticket/entry details: FULLY BOOKED
Organised by: Amanda Lillie (University of York), Francesco Lucchini (The Courtauld Institute of Art/University of Warwick), Scott Nethersole (The Courtauld Institute of Art), Jennifer Sliwka (The National Gallery, London) and Alison Wright (UCL)
To mark the opening of the exhibition Devotion by Design: Italian Altarpieces before 1500, the Renaissance Consortium and the Material Life of Things Project of The Courtauld Institute of Art Research Forum, in collaboration with the National Gallery, UCL and the University of York, are hosting an informal study day and symposium dedicated.....read more
Beyond the moulin rouge: jane avril's vie de boheme
Sunday 14 August 2011
16.00 - 17.00, Foyer
The Courtauld Institute of Art, Somerset House, Strand, London WC2R 0RN
Henri Toulouse-Lautrec, Sketch for a Portrait of a Lady. © The Samuel Courtauld Trust, The Courtauld Gallery, LondonGIACOMO PUCCINI: LA BOHÈME ACT I
Cast: Christopher Jacklin (Marcello); Oliver Johnston (Rodolfo); Katy Crompton (Mimi); Sam Queen (Schaunard); Matthew Buswell (Colline); Alisdair Kitchen (Musical Director/piano); Joseph Timmons (Director)
Speaker: Charlotte de Mille (The Courtauld Institute of Art)
Open to all, free admission but numbers are limited. Advance booking by Thursday 11th August is essential. Please contact: Charlotte.Demille@courtauld.ac.uk
From the hedonism and haphazard living of fin de siècle Monmartre this event travels to its immediate precursor - the left-bank idealism of Henri Murger’s La Vie de la Bohème, immortalised by Giacomo Puccini’s .....read more