Janson-La Palme Lectures

The Robert Janson-La Palme *76 Visiting Professorship and Conference was endowed in 2002 in honor of Robert Janson-La Palme by his mother-in-law, Mrs. Lillian Marks.

Robert Janson-La Palme, professor emeritus of art history at Washington College in Maryland, received his B.A. from Brown University in 1952 and his Ph.D. from Princeton in 1976, studying under Professors Millard Meiss and John Rupert Martin.

This endowment was established to bring a visiting scholar and teacher of national and international stature to Princeton to teach and conduct other scholarly activities, primarily at the graduate level, in European art of the period 1200–1800 A.D.

Metamorphic Matter: Elemental Imagery in Early Modern Art
Fri, Apr 5, 2024, 9:00 am6:00 pm
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Venue TBA
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Past Events

Janson-La Palme Conference ∙ The Lure of the Machine in Medieval and Early Modern Europe, April 14–15
Fri, Apr 14, 2023, 9:30 amSat, Apr 15, 2023, 5:00 pm

Keynote by Pamela O. Long on Friday April 14 at 4:30pm

Machines between Learning and Practice in Early Modern Europe

In this talk I focus on images of machines and the texts that accompanied them from the 1470s through the mid-sixteenth century. I compare the machine drawings of two contemporaries, the painter/architect…

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Louis A. Simpson International Building A71
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Veracity and Artifice in Baroque Spain: Rubens, Velázquez, and the place of armor in the visual celebration of Philip IV of Spain's kingship
Wed, Apr 20, 2022, 5:00 pm6:00 pm
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Philip IV of Spain (1605–1665) began his reign in 1621, at the age of sixteen, with the intent of restoring Spanish might and reputation internationally, in response to a period of perceived erosion and decline. The near-simultaneous end of a twelve-year truce with the Dutch Republic, which resulted in the resumption of warfare,…

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Hybrid | Aaron Burr 219 for PU ID holders only
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Francisco Goya and the Problem of Political Art
Wed, Feb 19, 2020, 5:00 pm5:00 pm
Location
101 McCormick Hall
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Unraveling the Mysteries of Jan van Eyck’s Late Paintings
Tue, Oct 24, 2017, 5:00 pm5:00 pm
Location
101 McCormick Hall
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Once again, Albrecht Dürer’s Melencolia I
Wed, Dec 7, 2016, 5:00 pm5:00 pm
Location
101 McCormick Hall
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Actuality, Potentiality, and Renaissance Classicism
Wed, Mar 23, 2016, 5:00 pm5:00 pm
Location
101 McCormick Hall
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Raised to Glory, Crowned with Gold: German Nuns and Their Statues in the Late Middle Ages
Wed, Mar 25, 2015, 5:00 pm5:00 pm
Location
101 McCormick Hall
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It Doesn't Look Like Leonardo: Science, Connoisseurship, and Circumstance in the Attribution of Works of Art
Mon, Apr 15, 2013
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Figuring the Renaissance: Leonardo, Dürer, Michelangelo, and Their Critics
Wed, Nov 16, 2011, 5:00 pm5:00 pm
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