Please join us next week for a talk in collaboration with the Smart Museum of Art.

Thursday, May 6, 2021 at 4pm (Note the odd time and day)

We are happy to welcome Patricia Simons (Professor Emerita, History of Art and Women’s and Gender Studies, University of Michigan) and Jill Burke (Professor of Renaissance Visual and Material Cultures, University of Edinburgh) who will be conversing about the construction of gender-based narratives and power dynamics in early modern European art.

There will be no pre-circulated papers for this talk. Registration in advance is required. For more information and to register for this event please click here.

We hope to see you there!

Image: Luca Cambiaso, Venus and Cupid (detail), c. 1570, Oil on canvas. The Art Institute of Chicago, A. A. Munger Collection, 1942.290.

Please join us next week for our next meeting of the Early Modern and Mediterranean Worlds Workshop!

Tuesday, April 27, 2021 at 3pm (CDT)

We are excited to welcome Yunning Zhang (PhD Student, Comparative Literature) who will be presenting her current work-in-progress. Sizhao Yi (PhD Candidate, Art History) will join us as the respondent. The reading material will be shared via the workshop mailing list.

You may join our meeting at the following link:

https://uchicago.zoom.us/j/91943281003?pwd=WTZWZUZvYjR2N3JmZ3haMTBNSnFHUT09

We hope to see you there!

Please join us next week for the spring quarter’s first meeting of the Early Modern and Mediterranean Worlds Workshop!

Wednesday, April 14, 2021 at 3:30pm (note the odd time and day)

We are excited to welcome Nora Lambert (PhD Candidate, Art History, and Andrew W. Mellon Curatorial Fellow at the Smart Museum of Art) who will be talking about her work as curator of the exhibit entitled Lust, Love, and Loss in Renaissance Europe. Joining the conversation will be Cosette Bruhns (Humanities Teaching Fellow, RLL) and Christine Zappella (PhD Candidate, Art History).

Please note, there will be no pre-circulated paper. For more information about the exhibit, please visit: https://smartmuseum.uchicago.edu/exhibitions/lust-love-and-loss-in-renaissance-europe/.

You may join our meeting at the following link:

https://uchicago.zoom.us/j/91943281003?pwd=WTZWZUZvYjR2N3JmZ3haMTBNSnFHUT09

We hope to see you there!

Top image: Master of the Apollo and Daphne Legend, Daphne Fleeing from Apollo, c. 1500, Oil, formerly on panel, transferred to canvas. Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chicago, Gift of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, 1973.45.