Ms. Rachel Dankert, Learning and Engagement Librarian at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington D.C., will give a public talk on Thursday, January 31. Ms. Dankert’s talk has its origins in her research on the Painting Shakespeare exhibition held at the Folger in Spring 2018 and will explore depictions in art of the witches in […]
On Thursday, January 24, Dr. Jill Hamilton Clements, assistant professor of English at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, will give a public lecture entitled “Eating the Damned: The Mouth of Hell in Medieval Art and Thought.” The talk, based on Hamilton Clements interdisciplinary work mainly on English material, will explore the visual tradition of eating […]
This summer saw the publication of a new article by Professor of Art History Julia DeLancey. The article, entitled “Celebrating citizenship: Titian’s portrait of the color seller Alvise Gradignan della Scala and social status in early modern Venice,” looks at the portrait of della Scala—now in the Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister in Dresden—by the sixteenth-century Venetian […]
