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Christopher Johns to Present Paper at Eighteenth-Century Symposium February 3 at UNC Chapel Hill

Posted by on Thursday, February 1, 2018 in Conferences, Events, HART, Lectures, News, VRC.

RandSymposiumcropped-Allais-P-F-96-1Christopher Johns, Norman L. and Roselea J. Goldberg Professor of History of Art, will present a paper titled “A Villa Fit for Two Queens: Female Royal Patronage in Early Eighteenth-Century Turin” on February 3 as part of the Bettie Allison Rand Symposium in Art History held at the Ackland Art Museum at the University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill.

The overall theme of the three-day symposium (February 1-3) is Taking Exception: Women, Gender, Representation in the Eighteenth Century, held in honor of Mary D. Sheriff, W.R. Kenan, Jr. Distinguished Professor of Art History, UNC Chapel Hill, and an internationally renowned scholar of  eighteenth- and nineteenth-century French art and culture.

The symposium will take place in tandem with the current Ackland Art Museum exhibition, Becoming a Woman in the Age of Enlightenment: French Art from the Horvitz Collection, on view through April 8.

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