Meetings
Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts
The Center sponsors regular and special meetings throughout the academic year. Meetings held at regular intervals include colloquia, presented by the senior members of the Center, and shoptalks, given by the predoctoral fellows. Art historians and other scholars at area universities, museums, and research institutes are invited to participate in these gatherings.
Special meetings of the Center occur periodically throughout the year and include symposia, conferences, curatorial/conservation colloquies, incontri, seminars, and lectures. These meetings involve participants from the local, national, and international communities of scholars.
Such gatherings, in addition to the Center's annual reception in honor of new members, introductory meeting with the curatorial departments of the National Gallery, and weekly luncheon and tea encourage exchange among the members and help stimulate critical discourse in advanced research in the history of art and related disciplines.
April 17, 2008
Elizabeth Hill Boone, Andrew W. Mellon Professor
Transformations of Indigenous Pictography in Sixteenth–Century Mexico: The European Genres
March 6, 2008
Dennis Romano, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Senior Fellow
Markets and Marketplaces in Medieval Italy, c. 1100–1450
February 14, 2008
Marcia Kupfer, Paul Mellon Senior Fellow
The Body in the Map, the World Embodied: Reflections on the Medieval Figuration of Space
January 31, 2008
Stanko Kokole, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Senior Fellow
From Figment to Fact: The Marbled Imagery of the Tempio Malatestiano
January 10, 2008
Felipe Pereda, Samuel H. Kress Senior Fellow
Maryam or The Politics of Conversion: The Flemish Industry of Marian Icons in Granada, c. 1492–1501
December 6, 2007
Alex Potts, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Senior Fellow
Art and Non–Art in the Mid–Twentieth Century
November 15, 2007
Beth L. Holman, Samuel H. Kress Senior Fellow
"Honest Envy": Artists' Competitions in Renaissance Italy
November 1, 2007
Rudolf Preimesberger, Samuel H. Kress Professor
Andrea Bolgi's Statue of Saint Helen: Word–Image Problems in Saint Peter's, 1623–1644
April 10, 2008
Ross Barrett, Wyeth Fellow
Rioters Refigured: The Gangs of Antebellum New York in Paint and Print
March 27, 2008
Sara Switzer, Samuel H. Kress Fellow
Correggio and the Sacred Image
February 28, 2008
Susan Elizabeth Gagliardi, Ittleson Fellow
Seeing the Unseen: Power Associations, Artists, and the Masks They Make
February 11, 2008
Amy Freund, A. W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow
Family Portraiture and Politics during the French Revolution
January 17, 2008
Bridget Alsdorf, Twenty–Four–Month Chester Dale Fellow
Masculine Anxiety in Fantin–Latour's Corner of a Table, 1872
December 17, 2007
Cécile Fromont, Andrew W. Mellon Fellow
Under the Sign of the Cross in the Kingdom of Kongo: Molding Crucifixes and Shaping Faith in Early Modern Central Africa
November 29, 2007
Zeynep Çelik Alexander, Paul Mellon Fellow
Hermann Obrist's Occult Modernism
November 13, 2007
Rebecca M. Molholt, David E. Finley Fellow
Roman Mosaics: Reenactments and Motion Pictures
October 17–18, 2008
Modernism and Landscape Architecture; 1890–1940, Part II, Hannover, Germany
March 28–29, 2008
Middle Atlantic Symposium in the History of Art, Thirty–Eighth Annual Sessions
Cosponsored with the Department of Art History and Archaeology, University of Maryland
March 7–8, 2008
Modernism and Landscape Architecture, 1890–1940
Cosponsored with the Zentrum für Gartenkunst und Landschaftsarchitektur, Leibniz Universität Hannover
March 30–31, 2007
Middle Atlantic Symposium in the History of Art, Thirty–seventh Annual Sessions
Cosponsored with the Department of Art History and Archaeology, University of Maryland
March 9–10, 2007
Art and the Early Photographic Album
October 12–13, 2006
Orsanmichele and the History and Preservation of the Civic Monument Part II
Palazzo Capponi all'Annunziata, Florence
December 4–5, 2008
Images of the American Indian, 1600–2000, co–sponsored with the Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of the American Indian
April 7, 2008
New Work on Renaissance Sculpture
On the occasion of the exhibition Bronze and Boxwood: Renaissance Masterpieces from the
Robert H. Smith Collection
October 5, 2007
Desiderio da Settignano: In the Exhibition and Beyond It
Robert H. Smith Conference
November 17, 2006
The Documentary Image in American Photography
A Wyeth Foundation for American Art Conference
Curatorial/Conservation Colloquies
December 8–10, 2008
Condition, Conservation, Interpretation: Case Studies in 20th–Century Art
Edmond J. Safra Colloquy
May 5, 2008
Vicissitudes of the "Pastoral" in Venice: Bellini versus Giorgione versus Titian
Edmond J. Safra Colloquy
October 4, 2007
Desiderio da Settignano: In the Exhibition and Beyond It
Robert H. Smith Colloquy
March 26–28, 2007
Jasper Johns: Materials and Methods
A. W. Mellon Curatorial/Conservation Colloquy in Modern and Contemporary Art
June 19–21, 2006
Venetian Underdrawing
Robert H. Smith Curatorial/Conservation Colloquy
February 27, 2008
Hans Belting, Staatliche Hochschule für Gestaltung, Karlsruhe
Edmond J. Safra Visiting Professor, spring 2008
Saint Francis and the Body as Image: An Anthropological Approach
October 26, 2007
Alexander Nemerov, Yale University
The Turn of the Screw and Art History
Wyeth Foundation for American Art Incontro
May 21–23, 2007
X–ray Fluorescence (XRF) Roundtable Discussion
Robert H. Smith Seminar
Joseph Leo Koerner, Harvard University
Bosch and Bruegel: Parallel Worlds
The Fifty–seventh A.W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts, 2008
April 29, 2008
Natalia Majluf, Museo de Arte de Lima
The Scene of Approximation: Francisco Laso's "Pascana" Series and the Creole Construction of the Andean World
April 1, 2008
Hans Belting, Staatliche Hochschule für Gestaltung, Karlsruhe
Edmond J. Safra Visiting Professor, spring 2008
Contemporary Art and the Museum: A Global Perspective
Andrea Buddensieg, Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe
The ZKM Project: Global Art and the Museum
October 25, 2007
Alexander Nemerov, Yale University
Ground Swell: Edward Hopper in 1939
Wyeth Lecture in American Art
Helen Vendler, Harvard University
Last Looks, Last Books: The Binocular Poetry of Death
The Fifty–sixth A.W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts, 2007