Christopher Johns Presents Paper at Symposium Focused on the Art of the Gesù

Christopher Johns, Norman L and Roselea J. Goldberg Professor of History of Art, delivered a paper, “Giovanni Battista Gaulli and the ‘Adoration of the Most Holy Name’: Painting and Piety in Late Baroque Rome,” at a symposium April 5-6 hosted by the Fairfield University Art Museum and held in conjunction with the current exhibition THE…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on April 9, 2018 in Conferences, Events, HART, Lectures, News, VRC

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Shelby Merritt Presents Poster at VRA 2018 Conference, Philadelphia, PA

In late March, I represented Vanderbilt’s History of Art Visual Resources Center at the Visual Resources Association’s 35th Annual Conference in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. This year’s conference theme was “Workshop of the World”, a theme which played on the nineteenth-century nickname for Philadelphia as an important center of industry. The highlight of the conference was the…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on April 4, 2018 in Conferences, Digital Humanities, Events, HART, News, Technology, VRC

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Vivien Fryd Is Keynote Speaker at University of Arkansas Art History Symposium

Vivien Fryd, professor of history of art, is the keynote speaker at the University of Arkansas Art History Symposium March 8-9 in Fayetteville, Arkansas. Fryd, niece of the New York Times photographer Henry Ries (1917-2004) will address the topic Henry Ries: The Berlin Wall as a Counter-Monument Atop the Ruins of War, Terror, and Division. Ries, a…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on March 9, 2018 in Conferences, Events, HART, News, VRC

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

Christopher 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…

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

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Black Mountain College Symposium Keynote and Performance Held in Cohen Hall on February 1

Vanderbilt’s Department of Art and the Wond’ry present Chance Operations: Art and Education at Black Mountain College, a two-day interdisciplinary symposium (February 1-2) that will examine the contemporary relevance of Black Mountain College’s immersive teaching models on art, design, and education. Artists, curators, students and educators from various disciplines will illuminate Black Mountain’s unique pedagogical approach…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on January 30, 2018 in Conferences, Events, Fine Arts Gallery, HART, Lectures, News, VRC

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Vivien Fryd to Present Lecture at University of Paderborn on December 7

Vivien Fryd, professor of history of art, will deliver a lecture addressing “Equal Time in Equal Space: Ending the Silence about Incest” at the University of Paderborn, Germany, on December 7.  Her presentation is part of a two-day interdisciplinary and international conference entitled “Narratives and Mental Health: Fragmentations, Disruptions and Silences.” The December 7-8 conference, sponsored…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on December 4, 2017 in Conferences, Events, HART, Lectures, News, VRC

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Christopher Johns to Present Lecture October 31 at International Symposium in London

Enlightened Princesses: Britain and Europe, 1700-1820, an international symposium held October 29-31 in London, will bring together eminent academicians and museum scholars to investigate the role played by royal women—electresses, princesses, queens consort, reigning queens, and empresses—in the shaping of court culture and politics in Europe of the long eighteenth century. Christopher Johns, Norman L….

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on October 27, 2017 in Conferences, Events, HART, Lectures, News, VRC

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Betsey Robinson Moderates October 20 Workshop Session on the Western Delta in Late Antiquity

The hinterland of Alexandria was the setting for some of the earliest and most important monastic settlements in late antique Egypt. It is this area that produced the famous “sayings of the desert fathers,” and it is in this area, above all, that Christian pilgrims from the Roman Empire encountered Egyptian monasticism. This is the…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on October 19, 2017 in Conferences, Divinity School, Events, HART, Lectures, News, VRC

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Stephen Davis to Deliver Keynote Lecture at Interdisciplinary Workshop on Late Antiquity October 19-20

Stephen J. Davis, professor of religious studies and Near Eastern languages and civilization at Yale University, will deliver the keynote lecture, “The Archaeology of Early Christian Monasticism: Evidentiary Problems and Criteria” on Thursday, October 19, at 4:10 pm in Cohen Hall 203 followed by a reception.  Davis will open ReLACS 2017, an interdisciplinary workshop on…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on October 17, 2017 in Conferences, Divinity School, Events, HART, Lectures, News, Vanderbilt University, VRC

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Tracy Miller Chairs Session at Society of Architectural Historians Conference in Glasgow

Hundreds of Society of Architectural Historians (SAH) members recently gathered in Glasgow, Scotland, to hear new ideas about the distant past and, in many cases, to learn from that past in order to affect the future. Tracy Miller, associate professor of history of art, chaired a session at the SAH 70th Annual International Conference held…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on June 27, 2017 in Conferences, Events, HART, VRC

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