Academics on an artistic journey through the past
Posted on 23 November 2009
Professor Christopher Norton, Professor Helen Hills, Professor Mark Hallett and Professor David Peters Corbett, of the University of York‘s Department of the History of Art, will give their inaugural lectures at under the theme From the Medieval to the Modern.
The event, in the Berrick Saul building starting at 3.15pm, will provide a rare opportunity to hear about four different and distinctive eras chronologically.
Professor Norton, the founding Head of the independent Department of History of Art in 2001 and now Director of the Centre of Medieval Studies, will talk about his long association with York Minster.
Professor Hills, who came to York as an Anniversary Reader in 2005, will talk about southern Italian baroque.
Current Head of Department, Professor Hallett will examine the rich artistic legacy of Sir Joshua Reynolds.
Professor Peters Corbett, a former Head of Department and founding Director of the Centre for Modern Studies, will discuss 19th century American landscape and morality.
ENDS
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