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Department of History of Art

 

Lent Term 2024

 
26 January
‘The Art of Classic Planning: Building Beautiful and Enduring Communities’

Nir Buras, Classic Planning Institute

 

2 February
‘Conservation in Practice at Blenheim Palace and Birmingham Cathedral’ 

Kathryn Harris, Nick Cox Architects

 

9 February
‘Drawings of Antiquities and Architectural Practice in Rome at the end of the Cinquecento’ 

Anna Bortolozzi, Stockholm University

 

16 February
‘Ottoman Viewers of Athenian Architecture before Stuart and Revett’

Elizabeth Key Fowden, University of Cambridge

 

23 February
‘Copying, Conformity, and Classicism: Architecture after Vignola’ 

Michael J. Waters, Columbia University

 

1 March
‘Architecture and Landscape in a Renaissance Map’

Anthony Gerbino, Manchester University

 

8 March
‘”Speaking Emblems of Divinity”: French Architecture and Ancient Greek Literature during the Ancien Régime and Revolution’

Peter Fane-Saunders

 

15 March
‘Notes & Queries’: A Symposium in Honour of Richard Hewlings

This seminar will be a full-day, registered event at Downing College. Further details can be found on events.

 

West Lodge Music Room (Stair E) at Downing College Fridays at 12:00 pm (In person and online) Register to view on zoom: Seminar Series - Ax:son Johnson Centre for the Study of Classical Architecture - University of Cambridge