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Borso d'Este and Courtiers, Hall of the Months (detail), Palazzo Schifanoia, Ferrara, c. 1469-1470.

Lecture | Timothy McCall – Velvet Goldmine: Silk, Gold, and Renaissance Masculinity | University of Melbourne

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The Australian Institute of Art History at the University of Melbourne invites you to a lecture by Dr. Timothy McCall (Villanova University, Pennsylvania) ‘Velvet Goldmine: Silk, Gold, and Renaissance Masculinity’ Date: Tuesday, 30 July 2019, Lecture 6.00 pm-7.00 pm Venue:  North Theatre, Old Arts Building (149), University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC 3010. The ruling men of Renaissance Italy wrapped themselves in silks and jewels, feathers and pearls. To dazzle the eye, they wore cloth-of-gold and cloth-of-silver, but also sometime gems made of paste, intended to deceive observers. What glittered was not necessarily gold, and luxury materials were not always what they […]

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Lecture | Dr Stefano Carboni | University of Melbourne

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Macgeorge Fellowship Lecture Dr Stefano Carboni Director and CEO, Art Gallery of Western Australia This lecture explores one of the most intriguing books of the medieval Islamic world. The Wonders of Creation and the Oddities of Existing Things is an encyclopedia of the natural world written by the legal scholar Zakariya ibn Muhammad al-Qazvini (1202-83), who worked under the late Abbasids and the early Mongol Ilkhanids in Iraq. The book was extremely popular and is known in many surviving manuscripts, virtually all of them heavily illustrated. The text describes such things as survival from shipwrecks, encounters with giant whales, people […]

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Professor Patricia Simons, Pleasures of Allegory: Rethinking ‘Susanna and the Elders’ – University of Melbourne – 5.30pm, 9th of March 2019

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Public Lecture: The Pleasures of Allegory: Rethinking ‘Susanna and the Elders’ will be held Wednesday 9 March 5.30pm-6.45pm.   Keynote:  Professor Patricia Simons, Professor of Art History at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. ‘Susanna and the Elders’ is commonly read as a case of male voyeurism, in subject and purpose, or as mere moralizing allegory. This paper moves away from each reductive extreme by re-examining the story’s history and visual effect. Patricia Simons works on the art of Renaissance Europe (primarily Italy, France and the Netherlands) with a special focus on the representation of gender and sexuality and on interdisciplinary approaches to materiality, visuality and material culture. In groundbreaking publications in both books and major […]

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Public Lecture at the University of Melbourne – Ara H. Merjian, The Zero Moment of History: Pier Paolo Pasolini, Abstraction, Neocapital

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Public Lecture: The Zero Moment of History: Pier Paolo Pasolini, Abstraction, Neocapital will be held Thurday 10 March 6.30pm-7.45pm. Keynote:  Ara H. Merjian Associate Professor of Italian Studies at New York University. From the forthcoming book, Against the Avant-Garde: Pier Paolo Pasolini, Post-War Art and Politics, 1960-1975 by Ara H. Merjian. Why did Italy’s most prominent counter-cultural figure abjure the post-war avant-garde, even as his work helped to dynamize its activity? Why, for all his own iconoclasm, did Pier Paolo Pasolini – director, poet, critic, and painter – specifically reject the ethos of abstraction? Along with his intermittent critical writings, the films La Rabbia (1963) and Teorema (1968) provide […]

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