Tag Archive for Seminars

Melbourne Portrait Group Seminar | Mark Shepheard on Mengs

Melbourne Portrait Group Seminar: ‘A tale of two portraits: Mengs and Don Luis de Borbón’. The National Gallery of Victoria has recently acquired a superb portrait by Anton Raphael Mengs (1728-79), one of the eighteenth century’s greatest portrait painters. The sitter is the Infante Don Luis de Borbón (1727-85), brother of the Spanish king, Carlos III. Don Luis was a major patron of the arts, employing the cellist and composer Luigi Boccherini, as well as being an early supporter of the young Goya. Meng’s portrait of the Infante was painted…

Seminar Series | ‘At Monash’ seminars at MADA (Monash Art, Design and Architecture)

MADA (Monash Art, Design and Architecture) is hosting a series of seminars open to the public that will provide overviews of courses offered at MADA as well as insight into the careers of MADA students and graduates. The seminars will provide a range of informative and free discussions around art, design and architecture. During each At Monash seminar, staff will be fielding questions and giving overviews of courses offered by the team at MADA. Current MADA students will provide their own insight into the courses, while MADA graduates will discuss…

EVCS 2013

After a brief hiatus, the European Visual Culture Seminar series returns with three papers of the second half of 2013. All three will be held in Room 205, Old Arts Building, University of Melbourne, Parkville. Monday 23 September, 6:30pm Anne McComish, Myths and Reality: Mosaics from the Vatican Mosaic Studio, 1900-32. Monday 28 October, 6:30pm Felicity Harley-McGowan, Being Blunt: The Art History ‘Revolution’ in 1940s London. Monday 25 November, 6:30pm Angelo Lo Conte, Landscapes and Garlands of Flowers: An example of naturalistic Lombard devotion.

EVCS: Mark Shepheard, ‘Pompeo Batoni and his Roman Sitters: Portraits of the Sforza Cesarini’

Pompeo Batoni, Portrait of Duke Gaetano II Sforza Cesarini. National Gallery of Victoria.

Mark Shepheard ‘Pompeo Batoni and his Roman Sitters: Portraits of the Sforza Cesarini.’   This paper examines Pompeo Batoni’s two portraits of members of the Sforza Cesarini family: the portrait of Duke Gaetano II in Melbourne and that of a woman traditionally identified as Gaetano’s wife, which hangs today in Birmingham. It readdresses the question of the identity of the sitter in the Birmingham portrait, and explores the social function of portraiture within the Sforza Cesarini’s extensive art collection and the likely place of Batoni’s two portraits within that collection.The…

Art History Seminar Program at the University of Melbourne

Art History Seminar Programme School of Culture and Communication, The University of Melbourne Program for Semester 2, 2011 Time: Wednesdays, 1 pm- 2 pm Venue: Room 114 John Medley (West Tower) August 3 Monique Webber (University of Melbourne) - Meditantibus Escam: Critical Discourse and the Creation of Innocentine Rome August 17 José Antonio González Zarandona (University of Melbourne) - The destruction of heritage: Rock art in the Burrup Peninsula August 31 Justine Grace (University of Melbourne) - l’avanguardia cattolica: Fillia and the forgotten church of futurism September 14 Professor Jaynie…

'Wonder-Lust': The Reception of the Belvedere Sculpture Courtyard

The European Visual Culture Seminar presents: Caterina Sciacca ‘Wonder-Lust’: The Reception of the Belvedere Sculpture Courtyard The Belvedere Sculpture Courtyard houses one of the most famous sculpture collections in the Western world. It has attracted the interests of scholars, artists and tourists since the Renaissance. It originally functioned as a private pleasure garden to which only a privileged few were granted access. In the eighteenth century this changed, and the courtyard became popular with a new audience: the Grand Tourists. For the Grand Tourist, the experience offered by the collection…

Lecture and Seminar on ‘Reversed Painting’ with Professor Richard Read

Richard Read Professor of Art History at the University of Western Australia LECTURE: Reversed Painting and the Conflict between Commercial and Academic Values in Nineteenth-Century London and Paris This lecture examines how the strange, complex pictorial motif of the reversed painting was used in paintings representing art galleries and academic juries to adjudicate the conflict between academic and commercial values at a time when newly professionalized commercial galleries sought to wrest cultural authority and financial power from academies in both London and Paris. SEMINAR: The Reversed Painting in Colonial Art…