Archive
June 1, 2018
Hal FosterPrinceton UniversityREUNION LECTURE
Reunion Lecture
11:00AM ∙ 106 McCormick Hall
April 27, 2018
Helen J. EvansThe Metropolitan Museum of ArtThe Elizabeth S. Ettinghausen Lecture
Lecture-30
4:30 PM ∙ Scheide Caldwell House, Room 103
Cosponsor: Archaeological Institute of America
April 27, 2018
Seth Cluett, Nick Mauss, Ken Okiishi
Lecture-21
1:30 – 7:30 PM
207 East Pyne Building, 106 McCormick Hall, Princeton University Art Museum
Event Poster and Schedule (pdf)
Exhibition Information (pdf)
Cosponsor: Department of Art & Archaeology, the Princeton University Art Museum, the Department of German, and the Program in European Cultural Studies
April 26, 2018
Panel Discussion
Lecture-33
Bonnie Bassler ∙ Squibb Professor in Molecular Biology and chair Department of Molecular Biology
Bridget Alsdorf ∙ associate professor of Art and Archaeology
Göran Blix ∙ associate professor of French and Italian
4:30 PM ∙ Princeton University Art Museum
Cosponsor: Humanities Council and PUAM
April 19, 2018
Avinoam ShalemColumbia University
Lecture-23
4:30 PM ∙ 106 McCormick Hall
April 12, 2018
Wade CattsPrincipal, South River Heritage Consulting, LLC
Lecture-29
4:30 PM ∙ 106 McCormick Hall
Cosponsor: Archaeological Institute of America
April 9, 2018
T. J. ClarkUniversity of California, Berkeley
Lecture-32
5:00 PM ∙ 101 McCormick Hall
Cosponsor: Department of Spanish and Portuguese
March 29, 2018
Guy HedreenWilliams College
Lecture-22
4:30 PM ∙ 106 McCormick Hall
March 27, 2018
Jean-Louis CohenInstitute of Fine Arts NYU
Lecture-31
5:00 PM ∙ 101 McCormick Hall
March 5, 2018
Caroline GoodsonUniversity of CambridgeThe Clayburgh Lecture
Lecture-27
4:30 PM ∙ 106 McCormick Hall
Cosponsor: Archaeological Institute of America and the Program in Medieval Studies
March 1, 2018
Ivan DrpićUniversity of Pennsylvania
Lecture-20
4:30 PM ∙ 106 McCormick Hall
February 23–24, 2018
WorkshopOpen to Princeton faculty and students only
Lecture-28
Participants Include: Brooke Holmes, Joshua Billings, Dan-el Padilla Peralta
RSVP required. RSVP to eileenrobinson@princeton.edu
February 15, 2018
Wu HungUniversity of Chicago
Lecture-19
4:30 PM ∙ 101 McCormick Hall
Cosponsor: Tang Center for East Asian Art
February 8, 2018
Pamela LeeStanford University
Lecture-18
4:30 PM ∙ 106 McCormick Hall
December 11, 2017
Mary RobertsUniversity of Sydney
Courting Failure in the Arab Hall
12:00 PM-1:30 PM ∙ Green Hall, 2N10
November 30, 2017 –
December 2, 2017
December 2, 2017
Lecture-17
The meeting convenes contributors to an edited volume, and will be workshop-style. If interested in attending please contact Beatrice Kitzinger for pre-circulated material.
NOTE: Friday, Dec. 1 is a study day for the speakers and the talks are only on Thursday and Saturday.
Cosponsored by Committee for the Study of Late Antiquity, the Humanities Council, the Center for the Study of Religion, and Medieval Studies
November 14, 2017
Ioli KalavrezouHarvard University
Lecture-13
5:00 PM ∙ 101 McCormick Hall
October 24, 2017
Maryan Ainsworth
Unraveling the Mysteries of Jan van Eyck's Late Paintings
5:00 PM ∙ 101 McCormick Hall
October 20–21, 2017
Department of Art & Archaeology Symposium
Department of Art & Archaeology Symposium
101 McCormick Hall
October 20, 2017
Antonis KotsonasUniversity of Cincinnati
Lecture-26
1:30-4:20 PM ∙ McCormick 104
Open to Princeton faculty and graduate students only
RSVP required. RSVP to nta@princeton.edu
October 12, 2017
Roundtable Discussion
Roundtable Discussion
12:00 PM - 1:20 PM ∙ 103 McCormick Hall
Cosponsor: East Asian Studies
October 5, 2017
Sheramy BundrickUniversity of South Florida St. PetersburgThe Thompson Lecture
Lecture-25
4:30 PM ∙ 106 McCormick Hall
Cosponsor: Archaeological Institute of America
May 19–20, 2017
Lecture-12Cosponsor: Departments of History and Art & Archaeology, Princeton; Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Madrid
April 27, 2017
Gregory LevineUniversity of CA, Berkeley
Lecture-6
4:30 PM ∙ 106 McCormick Hall
Cosponsor: P.Y. and Kinmay W. Tang Center for East Asian Art
April 13, 2017
Sarah GuérinUniversity of Pennsylvania
Lecture-5
4:30 PM ∙ 106 McCormick Hall
April 11, 2017
Salvatore SettisScuola Normale Superiore, Pisa
Lecture-16
April 7–8, 2017
Carolina Mangone and Tony Grafton
Conference
9:00 am–5:00 pm ∙ 211 Dickinson Hall
April 1, 2017
March 15, 2017
Stefan HeidemannHamburg University
Lecture-15
March 2, 2017
Carl Knappett University of Toronto
Lecture-14
4:30 PM ∙ 106 McCormick Hall
February 16, 2017
Mauro MussolinCASVA – Metropolitan Museum of Art
Lecture-4
4:30 PM ∙ 106 McCormick Hall
December 9, 2016
Friedrich Teja Bach Professor of the History of Art, Emeritus University of Vienna
Alberti's Eye - The Body of Vision
4:30 PM ∙ 106 McCormick Hall
Cosponsor: Council of the Humanities
December 7, 2016
Peter Parshall
Lecture-11
5:00 PM ∙ 101 McCormick Hall
December 1, 2016
Richard NeerUniversity of Chicago
Lecture-3
4:30 PM ∙ 106 McCormick Hall
November 14, 2016
Matthew Adams The Institute of Fine Arts at New York University
Lecture-10
4:30 PM ∙ 106 McCormick Hall
November 10, 2016
Briony Fer University College, London
Lecture
4:30 PM ∙ 106 McCormick Hall
October 20, 2016
Suzanne BlierHarvard University
Lecture-2
4:30 PM ∙ 106 McCormick Hall
October 17, 2016
Owen DoonanCalifornia State University Northridge
Lecture-9
October 11, 2016
Thomas MathewsInstitute of Fine Arts, New York University
The Dawn of Christian Art in Panel Paintings and Icons
5:00 PM ∙ 101 McCormick Hall
October 8, 2016
Friedrich Teja Bach, Malcolm Baker, Brigid. Doherty, Christina Ferando, Hal Foster, Michael Koortbojian, Carolina Mangone
Lecture-7
9:00 am–5:00 pm ∙ 106 McCormick Hall
September 22, 2016
Nathan ElkinsBaylor University
Lecture-8
4:30 PM ∙ 106 McCormick Hall
May 27, 2016
Professors Bridget Alsdorf, Carolina Mangone, and Deborah VischakReunion Lecture
Eternal Obelisk: Egyptian, Christian, Modern
11:00 AM ∙ 106 McCormick Hall
April 29, 2016
Plus Ça Change. . . ? The Lives and Afterlives of Medieval IconographyIndex of Christian Art Conference
Betts Auditorium, Architecture Building
Cosponsor: Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies, Program in Medieval Studies, Department of Art and Archaeology, and Steward Fund in the Council of the Humanities
April 27, 2016
Barry BergdollColumbia University
Reading Mile High: Frank Lloyd Wright Takes on Chicago, 1956
101 McCormick Hall, 5:00 pm
April 16, 2016
SCALEcolloquium
106 McCormick Hall, 9:30 am - 5:30pm
Cosponsor: Department of Art & Archaeology, the Society of Fellows, and the Council of Humanities
April 14, 2016
Holly BorhamPrinceton UniversityIndex Workshops in Medieval Art
Inventing Lutheran Iconography: Ornament, Style and the Passion
Index of Christian Art Seminar Room, 4:30-6:00 pm
April 11, 2016
William ChildsPrinceton University, Emeritus
The Meaning of Early Greek Images (11th-7th Centuries BC)
106 McCormick Hall, 4:30 pm
Cosponsor: Archaeological Institute of America
March 23, 2016
Robert WilliamsUniversity of California, Santa BarbaraRobert Janson-La Palme *76 Lecture
Actuality, Potentiality, and Renaissance Classicism
101 McCormick Hall, 5:00 pm
March 21, 2016
Celia ChazelleThe College of New JerseyIndex Workshops in Medieval Art
East Meets West? Cosmas Indicopleustes' Christian Topography and the Codex Amiatinus
Index of Christian Art Seminar Room, 4:30-6:00 pm
February 29, 2016
Tyler Jo SmithUniversity of VirginiaArchaeological Institute of America Thompson Lecture
Black-Figure on the Black Sea: Athenian Pottery from Berezan
106 McCormick Hall, 5:00 pm
Cosponsor: Archaeological Institute of America
February 27, 2016
Images and Codes: The Problem of Reading ArtGraduate Student Symposium in East Asian Art
101 McCormick Hall, 9:30 am–5:30 pm
Cosponsor: Tang Center for East Asian Art
February 22, 2016
Jessica SavageIndex of Christian ArtIndex Workshops in Medieval Art
The Princeton Index's 'Medium' and the Immaterial Nature of Digital Work: Manuscripts Reassessed
Index of Christian Art Seminar Room, 4:30-6:00 pm
February 22, 2016
Pamela A. PattonDirector, Index of Christian ArtIndex Workshops in Medieval Art
Making Faces in Medieval Iberia
Index of Christian Art Seminar Room, 4:30-6:00 pm
February 18, 2016
Annabel WhartonDuke UniversityThe Kurt Weitzmann Lecture
The Agency of Models: Holy Sepulchres, Hagia Sophias, Jerusalems
101 McCormick Hall, 5:00 pm
February 12, 2016
ISIS and the Cultural Heritage Crisis of Syria, Iraq, and YemenConference
106 McCormick Hall, 9:00 am–5:00 pm
Cosponsor: Center for Arts and Cultural Policy Studies
December 10, 2015
Joshua O'DriscollThe Morgan Library and MuseumIndex Workshops in Medieval Art
Problems of Painterliness in Early Medieval Art: The Case of Ottonian Cologne
Index of Christian Art Seminar Room, 4:30-6:00 pm
December 9, 2015
R. R. R. SmithUniversity of Oxford
Cosponsor: Program in the Ancient World
Aphrodisias in Caria: Recent Work, New Finds
106 McCormick Hall, 4:30 pm
November 19, 2015
Beatrice KitzingerPrinceton UniversityIndex Workshops in Medieval Art
The Problem(?) of Carolingian Gospel Narrative
Index of Christian Art Seminar Room, 4:30-6:00 pm
November 13–14, 2015
Visualizing DunhuangSymposium
McCosh 50
Cosponsor: P.Y. and Kinmay W. Tang Center for East Asian Art, Princeton University Art Museum, Henry Luce Foundation, Dunhuang Foundation, Buddhist Studies Workshop, Program in East Asian Studies
November 12, 2015
John Peter OlesonUniversity of Victoria
Hauarra: A Trajanic Auxiliary Fort on the Arabian Frontier in Jordan
106 McCormick Hall, 5:00 pm
Cosponsor: Archaeological Institute of America
October 23–24, 2015
Teaching Philosophy in the Seventeenth Century: Text and ImageSymposium
106 McCormick Hall
Cosponsor: David A. Gardner '69 Magic Project, Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts, Department of Philosophy, Department of History
October 12, 2015
Henry SchilbIndex of Christian Art, Princeton UniversityIndex Workshops in Medieval Art
The Shape of Byzantine Art in the Index of Christian Art Database
Index of Christian Art Seminar Room, 4:30-6:00 pm
October 12, 2015
Catherine FernandezIndex of Christian Art, Princeton UniversityIndex Workshops in Medieval Art
Shared Romanitas: Roman Imperial Cameos in the Byzantine East and Latin West
Index of Christian Art Seminar Room, 4:30-6:00 pm
September 24, 2015
Jürgen MüllerTechnische Universität Dresden
Cazzon da mulo - Wit and Irony in Michelangelo da Caravaggio's 'Boy Bitten by a Lizard'
106 McCormick Hall, 4:30 pm
May 29, 2015
Carolyn Yerkes, Beatrice Kitzinger, and Michael KoortbojianPrinceton UniversityReunion Lecture
A Short History of Rome's Pantheon
106 McCormick Hall, 11:00 am
May 4, 2015
Matthew AffronMuriel and Philip Berman Curator of Modern Art, Philadelphia Museum of ArtAt Work with Artwork Series
Discussion
111 East Pyne Hall, 4:45 pm
April 17–18, 2015
A New Look: Sinai and Its Icons in Light of the Digitization of the Weitzmann ArchiveConference
April 17, 2015
Robin CormackCourtald Institute of Art, emeritusThe Kurt Weitzmann Lecture
Discovering Icons at Sinai: From Uspenskij to Weitzmann
101 McCormick Hall, 5:00 pm
April 3, 2015
Guolong LaiUniversity of Florida and Institute for Advanced StudyChinese Palaeography Workshop Series
Secondary Literature in the Reading of Bronze Inscriptions
104 McCormick Hall, 10:00 am
Cosponsor: Tang Center for East Asian Art and Program in East Asian StudiesMore Info
March 27, 2015
Guolong LaiUniversity of Florida and Institute for Advanced StudyChinese Palaeography Workshop Series
Palaeography, Phonology, and Methodological Reflections
104 McCormick Hall, 10:00 am
Cosponsor: Tang Center for East Asian Art and Program in East Asian StudiesMore Info
March 27, 2015
More than Dirt: Princeton and Archaeology
103 Scheide Caldwell House, 1:30-4:00 pm
Cosponsor: Seeger Center for Hellenic StudiesMore Info
March 27, 2015
Open House for Prospective Majors
McCormick Hall, Princeton University Art Museum Lobby, 11:45 am
Lunch to follow in 3rd-floor lounge
Princeton University Art Museum curator Kate Bussard will lead a tour of the exhibition “The City Lost & Found”
March 25, 2015
Caroline Walker BynumInstitute for Advanced Study, EmeritaRobert Janson-La Palme Lecture
Raised to Glory, Crowned with Gold: German Nuns and Their Statues in the Late Middle Ages
McCormick 101, 5:00 pm
February 27, 2015
Jan StuartMelvin R. Seiden Curator of Chinese Art, Freer Gallery of Art and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian InstitutionAt Work with Artwork Series
Discussion-2
105 Chancellor Green, 4:45 pm
Cosponsor: Princeton University Art Museum and Tang Center for East Asian Art
February 20, 2015
Guolong LaiUniversity of Florida and Institute for Advanced StudyChinese Palaeography Workshop Series
Reconstructing Excavated Manuscripts
104 McCormick Hall, 10:00 am
Cosponsor: Tang Center for East Asian Art and Program in East Asian StudiesMore Info
November 17, 2014
Donald CosentinoUCLA, Emeritus
Four Moments Revisited: Kongo in the American Imaginary
106 McCormick Hall, 4:30 pm
Cosponsor: Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies and Center for African American StudiesMore Info
November 12, 2014
Debora SilvermanUCLA
Kongo or Congo? Violence, Modernism, and the Visual Unconscious of Belgian Colonialism, 1897-2013
101 McCormick Hall, 5:30 pm
Cosponsor: Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies and Center for African American StudiesMore Info
November 7–8, 2014
Chigusa in Context: In and Around Chanoyu in Sixteenth-Century JapanMcCormick 101
This international symposium organized by the Tang Center for East Asian Art will focus on the renowned tea-leaf storage jar named Chigusa and the broader production and appreciation of the arts within which it thrived in the 16th century.
October 13, 2014
Bárbaro Martínez-RuizMichaelis School of Fine Art, University of Cape Town
Ma kisi nsi: Kongo a Sansala Art
106 McCormick Hall, 4:30 pm
Cosponsor: Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies and Center for African American StudiesMore Info
October 3, 2014
Ugochukwu-Smooth C. NzewiCurator of African Art, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth CollegeAt Work with Artwork Series
Discussion-3
105 Chancellor Green, 4:45 pm
September 29, 2014
Cécile FromontUniversity of Chicago
The Art of Conversion: Kongo Christian Visual Culture in the Early Modern Atlantic World
106 McCormick Hall, 4:30 pm
Cosponsor: Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies and Center for African American StudiesMore Info
September 10, 2014
First Day of Classes
September 8, 2014
Freshman Academic Expo Frick Chemistry Lab Lobby, 9:30-noon
Expo offers freshmen interested in majoring in art history, archaeology, and studio art information about the range of opportunities offered by the Department of Art and Archaeology.
September 7, 2014
Opening ExercisesUniversity Chapel, 3:00 pm
May 6, 2014
John BainesUniversity of Oxford
Ancient Egyptian Pictorial Representation
101 McCormick Hall, 5:00 pm
More Info
April 22, 2014
Margit KernUniversity of Hamburg
Constructions of Difference in the Spanish Painting of Siglo de Oro: Joseph's Coat and Vulcan's Forge by Velazquez
106 McCormick Hall, 5:00 pm
Cosponsor: Institute for Advanced Study
April 16, 2014
Alexandra MunroeSamsung Senior Curator of Asian Art, Guggenheim Museum, New YorkAt Work with Artwork Series
Discussion-5
Chancellor Green 105, 4:45 pm
April 15, 2014
Aden KumlerUniversity of Chicago
Neither Breakthrough nor Breakdown: Episodes From a History of Medieval Abstraction
5:00 pm, Wolfensohn Hall, IAS
Cosponsor: Institute for Advanced Study
March 7, 2014
March 6, 2014
Ian WardropperDirector, The Frick CollectionAt Work with Artwork Series
Discussion-6
Chancellor Green 105, 4:30 pm
February 25, 2014
Mark HaxthausenWilliams College
Paul Klee, Wilhelm Hausenstein, and the 'Problem of Style'
5:00 pm, Wolfensohn Hall, IAS
Cosponsor: Institute for Advanced Study
February 6, 2014
James Christen StewardDirector, Princeton University Art MuseumAt Work with Artwork Series
Discussion-4
Princeton University Art Museum, 5:00 pm
February 4, 2014
Briony FerUniversity College London
Malevich's Nervous System
5:00 pm, Wolfensohn Hall, IAS
Cosponsor: Institute for Advanced Study
December 9, 2013
Alexander NagelNew York University
Orientations of Renaissance Art
5:00 pm, Wolfensohn Hall, IAS
Cosponsor: Institute for Advanced Study
November 20, 2013
Salah HassanCornell UniversityThe James F. Haley '50 Memorial Lecture
Contemporary Islamic Art after September 11
October 15, 2013
Daniel AbramsonTufts University
Obsolescence, History, and the Contradictions of Sustainability
5:00 pm, 106 McCormick Hall
October 7, 2013
Martin PowersUniversity of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Pictorial Citation in Song China: Theory and Practice
5:00 pm, 106 McCormick Hall
Cosponsor: Tang Center for East Asian Art
April 15, 2013
Martin J. KempTrinity College, OxfordRobert Janson-La Palme Lecture
It Doesn't Look Like Leonardo: Science, Connoisseurship, and Circumstance in the Attribution of Works of Art
April 9, 2013
Olivier LugonUniversité de Lausanne
The Ubiquitous Exhibition: Magazines, Museums and the Reproducible Exhibition after World War II
5:00 pm, Wolfensohn Hall, IAS
March 11, 2013
Sybille Ebert-SchiffererBibliotheca Hertziana
Caravaggio: A Case Study in Art Historical Methodology
5:00 pm, 106 McCormick Hall
March 8–9, 2013
Keynote Speaker James Elkins School of the Art Institute of ChicagoGraduate Student Conference
Why Art History Matters: Politics, Ethics and Objects
Friday 8 March, 5:00 pm, 106 McCormick Hall
Saturday 9 March, 9:30 am, 106 McCormick Hall
March 5, 2013
David JoselitYale University
How to Occupy an Image
5:00 pm, Wolfensohn Hall, IAS
Cosponsor: Institute for Advanced Study
February 12, 2013
Peter SturmanUniversity of California, Santa Barbara
Family Matters--The Strange Case of the 'Poetic Ideas' Scroll Attributed to Mi Youren and Sima Huai
5:00 pm, 106 McCormick Hall
Cosponsor: Tang Center for East Asian Art
February 11, 2013
Jacqueline LichtensteinUniversité de Paris IV-Sorbonne
The Aesthetic Turn: A New Concept of Theory of Art
4:30 pm, 106 McCormick Hall
Cosponsor: Program in European Cultural Studies, Department of French and Italian
December 10, 2012
Sidney KasfirEmory University
Up Close and Far Away: Artists, Memorialization and Uganda's Troubled Past
5:00 pm, Wolfensohn Hall, IAS
December 4, 2012
Erika NaginskiHarvard University
Impossible Design: Porsena's Tomb and French Visionary Architecture
5:00 pm, 106 McCormick Hall
November 14, 2012
Anthony CutlerPennsylvania State UniversityThe Kurt Weitzmann Lecture
The Empire of Things: Gifts and Gift Exchange in Late Antiquity, Byzantium, Early Islam, and Beyond
October 23, 2012
Mitchell MerbackJohns Hopkins University
Recognition: Theme and Meta-Theme in Northern Renaissance Art
Cosponsor: Institute for Advanced Study
June 1, 2012
Rachael DeLuePrinceton UniversityReunions Lecture
Art and Science in America: Intersections and Collisions
3:00 pm, 101 McCormick Hall
April 3, 2012
Martha WardUniversity of Chicago
Crowded Walls: 20th-Century Nostalgia for 19th-Century Installation
5:00 pm, Wolfensohn Hall, IAS
March 30–31, 2012
The End of the -ist and the Future of Art HistoryGraduate Student Conference
March 30, 5:00 pm, 106 McCormick Hall
March 31, 9:30 am, 106 McCormick Hall
March 6, 2012
Caroline BruzeliusDuke University
Preaching, Burying and Building in the Italian Medieval City
5:00 pm, 106 McCormick Hall
February 29, 2012
Tonio HölscherUniversity of Hiedelberg, Germany
In Art, More Alive than in Reality: Imagining Objects in Ancient Greece
5:00 pm, 101 McCormick Hall
January 24, 2012
Darcy Grimaldo GrigsbyUniversity of California, Berkeley
I Sell the Shadow to Support the Substance
5:00 pm, Wolfensohn Hall, IAS
Cosponsor: Institute for Advanced Study
December 14, 2011
Richard BrilliantColumbia University, emeritus
At Death's Door
December 5, 2011
Juliet KossScripps College
Model Soviets
5:00 pm, 101 McCormick Hall
November 21, 2011
Sible de BlaauwRadboud University of NijmegenThe Kurt Weitzmann Lecture
The Court of Saint Peter's: An Early Christian Church Atrium as a Place of Memory
101 McCormick Hall, 5:00 pm
November 16, 2011
David RosandColumbia University, emeritusRobert Janson-La Palme Lecture
Figuring the Renaissance: Leonardo, Dürer, Michelangelo, and Their Critics
November 14, 2011
AdbouMaliq SimoneGoldsmiths University of London
Postcolonial Urbanisms and the Uncertain Majority
5:00 pm, 106 McCormick Hall
October 6, 2011
Robert MowryHarvard University
First under Heaven: Korean Ceramics of the Goryeo Dynasty (918-1392)
5:00 pm, 106 McCormick Hall
Cosponsor: Tang Center for East Asian Art
September 26, 2011
Susan Verdi WebsterThe College of William and Mary
Vantage Points: Andeans, Europeans, and the Arts of Construction in Colonial Quito
6:00 pm, 106 McCormick Hall
April 13, 2011
Sonya LeeUniversity of Southern California
New Faces of Nature: Colossal Buddhas of Sichuan
5:00 pm, 106 McCormick Hall
April 8–9, 2011
Drawing a Blank: Past and PresentGRADUATE STUDENT CONFERENCE
6:00 pm Friday, 101 McCormick Hall
10 am Saturday, 101 McCormick Hall
April 5, 2011
Marian FeldmanUniversity of California, Berkeley
The Practical Logic of Style and Memory in Early First Millennium Levantine Ivories
5:00 pm, 106 McCormick Hall
March 24, 2011
Christina HalperinPrinceton University
King and Clown: Mimesis in Pre-Columbian Maya Art
4:30 pm, 106 McCormick Hall
Cosponsor: Program in Latin American Studies, Princeton University Art Museum
February 8, 2011
Alan Trachtenberg
Being There: Photography as Habitation in Photo-texts by Wright Morris
5:00 pm, 106 McCormick Hall
December 11, 2010
Giorgione and His Times: Confronting Alternate Realities
9:00 am, 101 McCormick Hall
November 8, 2010
Sophocles HadjisavvasDepartment of Antiquities, Cyprus
Alassa: A Late Bronze Age Town on the Mountains of Alasiya, Cyprus
5:00 pm, 106 McCormick Hall
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October 20, 2010
Dr. Mike WeaverLinacre College, Oxford
Paul Strand and the Cold War
4:30 pm, 106 McCormick Hall
October 19, 2010
Jonathan ReynoldsBarnard College, Columbia University, Berkeley
Paradise Lost-Paradise Regained, Tomatso Shomei's Photographic Engagement with Okinawa
5:00 pm, 106 McCormick Hall
April 27, 2010
Glenn LowryMuseum of Modern Art
Making History: Walid Raad, Modern Art, and the Middle East
February 22, 2010
Gerhard WolfMax Planck Institute, FlorenceThe Kurt Weitzmann Lecture
Between the Global and the Local: Mediterranean Art Histories
December 12, 2009
Organized by Deborah HowardUniversity of CambridgeRobert Janson-La Palme Colloquium
Exploding the Can(n)on
November 18, 2009
Elizabeth BolmanTemple UniversityThe Kurt Weitzmann Lecture
Discovering Early Byzantine Monasticism in Upper Egypt: Art, Archaeology, and Conservation
October 21, 2008
Alexei LidovResearch Centre for Eastern Christian Culture, Moscow; Russian Academy of Arts for Research and Innovative ProgramsThe Kurt Weitzmann Lecture
Hierotopy: Spatial Icons and Image-Paradigms in Byzantine Culture
April 29, 2008
Elisabeth KievenBibliotheca Hertziana, Max-Planck-Institute, Rome
Concepts of Space: The Role of Architectural Drawings in the Roman Baroque
November 12, 2007
Herbert L. KesslerJohns Hopkins UniversityThe Kurt Weitzmann Lecture
Competing Faces in Early Christian Art and the Monopoly on Christ's Likeness
March 31, 2007
Organized by John Beldon ScottUniversity of IowaRobert Janson-La Palme Colloquium
Architecture and Ritual in Early Modern Europe: Interdisciplinary Strategies of Interpretation
April 5, 2006
Robert NelsonYale UniversityThe Kurt Weitzmann Lecture
Light at Sinai, Natural, Artificial, Divine
March 7, 2006
Organized by Walter LiedtkeMetropolitan Museum of ArtRobert Janson-La Palme Colloquium
Art History in the University Versus Art History in the Museum
December 7, 2005
Anthony SnodgrassLaurence Professor Emeritus of Classical Archaeology, University of Cambridge
The Parthenon Marbles: Sculpture or Architecture?
November 14, 2003
Gülru Necipoğlu-KafadarHarvard University
Centralized Domed Spaces in Mediterranean Religious Architecture: Thoughts on Ottoman and Italian Renaissance Parallels
September 19, 2003
Organized by Patricia Fortini Brown and John PintoPrinceton UniversityRobert Janson-La Palme Colloquium
The Italian Renaissance City: Art, Architecture, and City Identity
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November 6, 2001
Pierre RosenbergPast director, Musée du Louvre
Georges de La Tour: An Exemplary Case of a Painter Whose Reputation Was Revived Thanks to Art Historians
November 16, 1999
James CahillUniversity of California, Berkeley, emeritus
Thoughts on the History and Posthistory of Chinese Painting
November 10, 1997
Thomas KrensDirector, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Frank Gehry's Masterpiece: The New Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain
November 8, 1995
Marcia PointonUniversity of Manchester
Brilliant Effects: Jewels, Portraiture, and Power in Eighteenth-Century England
April 21, 1994
Kathleen Wiel-Garris BrandtInstitute of Fine Arts, New York University
Michaelangelo: Not Yet the Last Judgment
November 8, 1991
James S. AckermanHarvard University
The Origins of Classicism
