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Job | Graduate Conservator – University of Melbourne

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Deadline: 24 Feb 2021 Work type: Fixed Term Location: Parkville Division/Faculty: Faculty of Arts Salary: $58,716 – $64,830 (UOM 3) Role & Superannuation rate: Professional – Part time – 9.5% super The Faculty of Arts promotes a workplace that actively seeks to include, welcome and value unique contributions of all people. People from Indigenous, culturally & linguistically diverse backgrounds and people with disabilities are encourage to apply, and if seeking support in submitting an application are welcomed to contact the Faculty by emailing their contact details and position number to arts-hr@unimelb.edu.au About the role The Graduate Conservator role is a position designed to provide opportunities for […]

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Symposium | Prints, Printmaking and Philanthropy | University of Melbourne

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A symposium celebrating 50 years of The Harold Wright and The Sarah and William Holmes Scholarships 30 September – 2 October 2019 This symposium, Prints, Printmaking and Philanthropy, celebrates 50 years of The Harold Wright and The Sarah and William Holmes Scholarships by focussing on three broad themes – print exhibitions, print collections and print presses – and seeks to trace the influence of philanthropy in shaping Australasian print culture. In one of the largest gatherings of print scholars, curators, artists and printmakers ever seen in Australia, a range of topics will be addressed from historical and contemporary perspectives. These include: […]

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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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