A lecture by Nikolas Bakirtzis, Associate Professor and Director of the Andreas Pittas Art Characterization Laboratories (APAC Labs) of the Cyprus Institute. Co-sponsored by the Department of the History of Art & Architecture and the Standing Committee on Medieval Studies.
Alexander Saminsky (Independent Scholar), Mid-Eleventh-Century Miniatures from Antioch and Constantinople, with response by Joe Glynias (Harvard Society of Fellows). Co-sponsored by the Yale Institute of Sacred Music and departments of Classics and the History of Art. This talk will take place on the Zoom meeting platform; please register here. Read more about Yale Lectures in Late Antique and Byzantine Art and Architecture
Paroma Chatterjee (University of Michigan): Measuring Weather: The Windvane and the Nilometer in Byzantine Art and Texts
This lecture discusses the monumental scientific devices that appear in the Byzantine literary and pictorial tradition, particularly the windvane that stood for centuries in Constantinople before its destruction during the Fourth Crusade (1204 CE) and the Nilometer used for measuring the rising...
Elva Johnston (University College Dublin), The Epigraphic Habit in Late Antique Ireland. Co-sponsored with the Department of Celtic Languages and Literatures.
A day-long conference celebrating the career of Walter Denny, Distinguished Professor of the History of Art and Architecture at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, featuring contributions by Yael Rice (Amherst College), Laura Weinstein (Museum of Fine Arts Boston), Aimée Froom (Museum of Fine Arts Houston), Amanda Phillips (University of Virginia), Margaret Squires (Courtauld Institute of Art), and Sumru Krody (The Textile Museum, Washington D.C.). For a complete program, please click... Read more about Walter Denny: A Symposium