Online Festschrift Symposium in Honour of David R. Marshall

The year 2023 will mark 40 years since David R. Marshall was appointed a lecturer in Art History at the University of Melbourne in the Department of Fine Arts. His former PhD students, colleagues and friends are honouring his distinguished legacy with an on-line international symposium and publication. They invite you to join them for two days of papers on new research across the areas of landscape and gardens in Early Modern Italy, the architecture and urbanism of Rome, antiquarianism, visual culture and performance, baroque to neo-baroque, and, Italian painting.

Online Festschrift Symposium in Honour of David R. Marshall

Saturday 19 November, 2.30pm – Sunday 20 November 2022, 9:00pm AEDT

Symposium organisers: Lisa Beaven, Katrina Grant, Alison Inglis and Anne Dunlop

Full details, including how to register, can be found here.

For more information please contact:
Lisa BeavenKatrina GrantAlison Inglis

Program
All times below are AEDT. Full abstracts coming soon.

Saturday 19th November
14:30 Welcome

Session 1
14:45-16:30

  • Robert Gaston (University of Melbourne) | Reflections on David’s contribution to research and teaching.
  • Robert Gaston (University of Melbourne) | Pirro Ligorio and the perils of antiquarianism
  • John Weretka (University of Melbourne) | Attend, harmonious saint: the veneration of St Cecilia in seventeenth-century Rome

Session 2
17:00-18:30

  • Victus Hobday (University of Melbourne) Pompe Funebri : Elpidio Benedetti and ephemeral memorials in 17th century Rome
  • Richard Read (University of Western Australia) | Skin and Cloth in Acheiropoieta: Staining, Erasure and Reversibility
  • Katrina Grant (Australian National University) | Pier Leon Ghezzi’s illustration of a lost Arcadian landscape in early-eighteenth century Rome

Session 3
1
9:00-20:30

  • Piers Baker Bates (Open University) | The Convent of Sant’Isidoro a Capo le Case: Spain and Ireland: Cityscape and Architecture in Seventeenth-century Rome
  • Karin Wolfe (British School at Rome) | The Rome of John Cecil, 5th Earl of Exeter (1648-1700) at Burghley House
  • Tommaso Manfredi (University of Reggio-Calabria) | The Jesuits in Saint Petersburg: Art and Architecture during the Reign of Paul I and Alexander I (1796-1820)

Sunday 20th November

Session 4
1
5:00-16:30

  • Alison Inglis (University of Melbourne) | Instruction and Inspiration: Sir Edward Poynter and Italy
  • Lisa Beaven (La Trobe University) | Envisioning the Roma Campagna: Claude Lorrain, The Falconieri and Torre in Pietra
  • Mark McDonald (Metropolitan Museum of Art) Goya’s Landscape

Session 5
1
7:00-18:30

  • Angela Ndalianis (Swinburne University) | The baroque, bel composto and the Lion King: entering the visual effect
  • Sue Russell (Independent Scholar) | ‘The only thing of beauty …’: Giovanni Battista Armenini (1530-1609) and the Fresco Frieze in Roman Palaces
  • Mark Shepheard (Australian National University) | Bernardo Strozzi’s portrait of Barbara Strozzi

Session 6
1
9:00-20:30

  • Dagmar Eichberger (Heidelberg University) | Galeries et Jardinages: Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle’s Tapestries of Renaissance Garden Architecture with Animals
  • Arno Witte (University of Amsterdam) | Celebre facciata: Cardinal Francisco de Solis Folch de Cordona and the use of public space in eighteenth-century Rome
  • Ruth Pullin (University of Melbourne) | Von Guérard in Naples: Pitloo, pictorial space and the panorama

Final comments and thanks
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