Visiting Scholars Schedule Fall 2009

Creative Intersections in Art, Science & Technology 1500 - 1800
Knowledge was more holistically conceived before modern distinctions between art, science, and religion emerged in eighteenth-century Europe. So how did the pursuits we distinguish as art and science intersect before then? This lecture series presents some of the most original contributors to an historical investigation that is re-thinking our inherited disciplinary formations for a new era. Please join us for these events. The Visiting Scholars program is funded by Art and Art History Student Fees.

September 8
Pamela H. Smith, Professor of History - Columbia University
Vermilion, Gold, Blood and Lizards: Art & Science in Early Modern Europe

Reception at 5:00 p.m., Lecture at 5:30 in Fleming 104
Professor Smith received her PhD in history from The Johns Hopkins University and has published extensively on the intersections of art and science in early modern Europe and beyond, including two award-winning books, The Body of the Artisan: Art and Experience in the Scientific Revolution (2004) and The Business of Alchemy: Science and Culture in the Holy Roman Empire (1994), and several edited volumes, including Merchants and Marvels: Commerce, Science, and Art in Early Modern Europe (2002). Her current work deals with ways of making objects and knowing nature, and problems of understanding historical experience.

September 23
Martin Kemp, Professor Emeritus in the History of Art - Oxford University
Structural Intuitions in Art and Science

Lecture at 6:00 in ATLAS 100, Reception follows lecture

Professor Kemp trained in both art history and natural science, at the Courtauld Institute and Cambridge University. The central focus of his wide-ranging research has been the relationship between scientific models of nature and the theory and practice of art. Awarded the British Academy Wolfson Research Professorship from 1993-98 and the author of more than two dozen books, including the award-winning Leonardo da Vinci: The Marvellous Works of Nature and Man (1981; rev. ed. 2006), he is a foremost authority on Leonardo da Vinci who has also curated several innovative exhibitions involving contemporary artists. Co-sponsored by the College of Engineering

October 13
Lyle Massey, Associate Professor of Art History -University of California-Irvine
Sexing Difference: Early Modern Anatomy and the Body

Reception at 5:00 p.m., Lecture at 5:30 in Fleming 104
Professor Massey received her PhD in art history from UCLA and is interested in problems of representation in the area between art and science in early modern Europe. Her publications include Picturing Space, Displacing Bodies: Anamorphosis in Early Modern Theories of Perspective (2007), The Treatise on Perspective, Published and Unpublished (2003), and The Anatomy of Gender (2006), accompanying an exhibition at Northwestern University. Her lecture deals with ways that sixteenth-century illustrated anatomies treat the body as a site of knowledge by creating a new visual language of sexual differentiation.

December 8
Michael Cole, Associate Professor of Art History - University of Pennsylvania
Toward a New Image of Renaissance Magic

Reception at 5:00 p.m., Lecture at 5:30 in Fleming 104
Professor Cole received his PhD in art history from Princeton University. His research revolves around problems in Italian Renaissance art ranging from the magical properties of metals to the religious power of images. His publications include Cellini and the Principles of Sculpture (2002), Sculptural Ambition at the End of the Renaissance, Giambologna, Ammannati, and Danti in Florence (in press), and the edited volumes Inventions of the Studio: Renaissance to Romanticism (2005) and Idols in the Age of Art (2009). His lecture deals with the motif of the foreshortened figure as a meta-critical comment on the practice of art-making.

CHECK ABOVE FOR LECTURE TIME AND LOCATION.

Contact Professor Claire Farago, Claire.Farago@colorado.edu 303.492.8166

The Visiting Scholar Program is organized to explore the discipline of art history—its cultural connections, its methodological pursuits, and its changing nature—by focusing extensively on the research and insights of individual academic experts. Three to five highly regarded art historians and/or art critics speak at a public lecture presenting current research and published papers. During their week long vistit they work closely with graduate students enrolled in the visiting scholar seminar class.