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Department of History of Art

 

Lent Term 2025

 

31 January

Clare Hornsby (British School at Rome)

Palladian Glamour in Buckinghamshire: Giovanni Battista Servandoni’s projects for Sir Francis Dashwood

 

 

7 February

Elizabeth Merrill (Ghent University)

Is Everything a Copy? Rethinking the ingenuity of 15th-century machine drawings

 

 

14 February

Yue Zhuang (University of Exeter)

Concordia Discors: Collecting and display in Alexander Pope’s grotto as a ‘Mine’

 

21 February

John Outram (John Outram Associates)

The Ordine Roboticorum: John Outram at 90

 

28 February

Camilla Baker (Herbert Baker Society)

An Oral History of Sir Herbert Baker (1862-1946): Champion of the Arts and Crafts

 

 

7 March

Manolis Korres (National Technical University of Athens)

The Temple of Olympian Zeus in Athens

 

 

14 March

Rosemary Hill

On Babbacombe Beach: High tide for the High Victorians?

 

 

21 March

Karl Kinsella  (University of Aberdeen)

After Vitruvius: Architectural triads in the 12th century

 

 

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