Renaissance historian Ada Palmer explores the relationship between war, strife, and artistic production reflecting on objects in Lust, Love, and Loss in Renaissance Europe as well as other examples of art, music, and literature. Palmer examines how the artistic splendor of the Renaissance—and the willingness of patrons to invest their fortunes in it—was a reaction to crisis and violence, rather than a sign of peace.
Join Patricia Simons and Jill Burke for a nuanced investigation into the construction of gender-based narratives and power dynamics in early modern European art. Many of the works in Lust, Love, and Loss in Renaissance Europe feature dramatic stories of feminine exemplars drawn from biblical texts, mythology, and ancient history.
This lunchtime series with the Poetry Foundation and Smart Museum of Art takes us into the wild world of human relationships in ancient Rome and Renaissance Europe that is both strange and oddly familiar. Together, we’ll investigate themes of trauma, transformation, and love during our current Pandemic epoch through the lens of Ovid’s poetry.
In Part 2 on April 29th at high noon, Erik Peterson will lead a session that includes live readings from Ovid’s Metamorphoses, a drawing workshop, and a hands-on art project that celebrates the transformations of Spring.
This lunchtime series with the Poetry Foundation and Smart Museum of Art takes us into the wild world of human relationships in ancient Rome and Renaissance Europe that is both strange and oddly familiar. Together, we’ll investigate themes of trauma, transformation, and love during our current Pandemic epoch through the lens of Ovid’s poetry.
In 1974, Robert Rauschenberg made a series of prints called the Hoarfrosts with the legendary Los Angeles print studio Gemini G.E.L. The works featured ghostly images printed by solvent transfer onto gauzy, floating fabrics, hung so that they moved with the air.
SOLITUDE: A Dialogue on Today’s Architecture
Billie Tsien (Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects) & Anthony Vidler (The Cooper Union/Princeton University) chaired by Sean Keller (IIT College of Architecture)
Kirk Nickel (scholar and curator of Renaissance art) will present a paper entitled "Moses and the Limits of Papal Vision: The Case for Conciliarism as Pictured in Renaissance Brescia." Christine Zapella (Ph.D. Candidate, Art History) will offer a response.
Roko Rumora (Ph.D. Candidate, Art History) will present a paper entitled “Putting Down Memories: Roman Mnemonics and Statue Display in Quintilian, Cicero and the Rhetorica ad Herennium”. Professor Seth Estrin (Art History) will offer a response.
Programmed intuition: Vera Molnar’s aesthetic experiments with the CRT screen
Presentation by Zsofi Valyi-Nagy (Art History Ph.D. Candidate). She will be presenting her pre-circulated paper titled “Programmed intuition: Vera Molnar’s aesthetic experiments with the CRT screen.” Zsofi’s paper is available on the RAVE website with the password “Molnar”.
How to narrate an interconnected Mesoamerican world