Public Lecture at the University of Melbourne – Professor Alexander Nagel, Alpha and Omega, or “The Boundary of Our Orient”
Free Public Lecture: Alpha and Omega, or “The Boundary of Our Orient” will be held Monday 14 March 5.45pm-7.15pm. Keynote Speaker: Professor Alexander Nagel, Professor of Fine Arts, Institute of Fine Arts, New York City. The topic draws on art historian Professor Nagel’s recent research on ideas of Asia and America in Renaissance Europe. The decades after 1492 brought Asia closer to Europe than it had ever been. The art, cartography, and literature of the period we call the High Renaissance expanded to imagine a new convergence of worlds where East rejoined West and New neighboured Old. Alexander Nagel is a […]