FAN Archive
The 2009 Joseph Burke Lecture
Dark Theatres and Erotic Intensities: some thoughts on the works of Bacon, Henson, Booth and Boynes
Jason Smith
Director, Heide Museum of Art
6.30 pm Tuesday 26 May 2009 Elisabeth Murdoch Theatre, University of Melbourne
Poster
Floortalk, NGV International
The ‘Quality of Relationship’ between person and picture
John Armstrong
Philosopher in Residence, Melbourne Business School
Senior Adviser, Office of the Vice Chancellor, Melbourne University
Friday 5 June 2009 11:00 a.m.
One of the most elusive—but most important—topics in the study of art is that of the relationship between the beholder and the image. Think of how we speak of our relationships to pictures: liking, loving, knowing about, hating, being excited, being bored, being puzzled. These are not just about the object, they are also about how we experience it. I’m going to talk about ‘the quality of relationship’ between a person and a picture—what makes for a good relationship.
This might seem like an unconventional topic. Mostly we talk about the works—and try to find out more about them. But surely that’s all in the service of individual relationships to individual pictures. But the leading edge in intellectual thinking is now paying much more attention to issues of evaluation: what is it to like a picture, to need it in your imagination? Why is it a good object? And this is of deep importance in cultural transmission.
Culture isn’t only a matter of knowledge: it’s also to do with liking, loving and caring. I want to explore how this picture, painted over 250 years ago continues to live, not just as a momento of another time and place, but as a living force in the present.
Poster
Floortalk, NGV International
Lachlan Turnbull
The Form of Grief: Melbourne’s Memling and the Man of Sorrows
Thursday 30 April 2009 12:00 midday
Hans Memling (ca. 1433-1494) was long considered a painter of doubtful art-historical significance; in the words of Erwin Panofsky, ‘a major minor master’. It is startling, then, to find that The Man of Sorrows in the Arms of the Virgin, a masterful Memling work of 1475 held by the NGV, is amongst the most arresting of the Netherlandish images to survive from the late-medieval efflorescence of Christian devotions to the suffering Christ.
In this floortalk, Memling’s life, art and posthumous reception will be covered, and the place of the Melbourne panel in Memling’s oeuvre reconsidered in the light of its iconographic complexity, pathos and extraordinary drama.
Poster
Floortalk, NGV International
Looking for art in all the wrong places. The Art of the Bugatti Family
John Payne
Co-curator of the exhibition Bugatti, Carlo Rembrandt Ettore Jean and Senior Conservator, Paintings National Gallery of Victoria
Friday 27 March 2009 12:00 midday
Poster
The Fine Arts Network 2008 Postdoctoral Lecture
Dr Ruth Pullin
A way of looking at nature: Eugene von Guérard in Europe and Australia
6:30 pm, Tuesday 16 September 2008, Elisabeth Murdoch Theatre, the University of Melbourne
The discovery of a group of oil sketches painted by Eugen von Guérard in the 1840s has shed new light on the artist and his conception of landscape painting. Painted in the open-air under the influence of his teacher, the Düsseldorf landscape painter J.W. Schirmer, these truthful, botanically-specific studies constituted the ideal apprenticeship for the artist who sought to realize the goals for landscape painting expressed by Alexander von Humboldt. Von Guérard rose to Humboldt's challenge to landscape painters to ‘pass the narrow limits of the Mediterranean' and ‘to seize, with the genuine freshness of a pure and youthful spirit, on the true image of the varied forms of nature'. Studies of the environmentally-significant German Neandertal anticipate his response to Australian subjects such as Tower Hill while others of the volcanic Eifel region signal his commitment to geological subjects. In the Australian colonies he pursued his interest in the new science of geology, or geognosy , a discipline with direct relevance to landscape painting, through his responses to the volcanic geology of Victoria's Western District, the granite tors of Mount Kosciuszko, Victoria's dramatic coastline and the dolerite embankments on the southern tip of Tasman Island.
In this lecture it will be argued that von Guérard's extensive and often arduous travel throughout the south-eastern colonies of Australia to portray its landscape was driven by a scientifically-informed vision of landscape painting, a vision founded on the influential theories of scientists such as Humboldt and Carl Gustav Carus, practised by colleagues in the Düsseldorf school of landscape painting and confirmed by contemporary scientists and artists in Melbourne.
The 2008 Margaret Manion Lecture
Robyn Sloggett
Director, Centre for Cultural Materials Conservation
The Living Object
6:30 pm, 22 October 2008, Elisabeth Murdoch Theatre, the University of Melbourne
The Fine Arts Network, in collaboration with the Art History Discipline, presents the 2008 Margaret Manion Lecture: 'The Living Object'. In this anniversary presentation which celebrates the 10th annual Margaret Manion Lecture, Associate Professor Robyn Sloggett, Director, Centre for Cultural Materials Conservation, explores how scientific enquiry, predominantly framed within cultural materials conservation studies, is used to gather evidence of how objects have been made, used or have traveled across time and place. With a capacity to 'humanize the humanities'; science draws out stories that help us to elucidate the past and make predictions for the future. These stories form the basis for this lecture. This lecture also pays tribute to Professor Manion for her work towards the establishment of Conservation as a discipline at the University of Melbourne.
EUROPEAN VISUAL CULTURE SEMINAR
Monday 18 August 2008, 6.30 pm, Room 148, Elisabeth Murdoch Building.
Diana Hiller.
'Un repas frugal' or una festa? Male refectories, food and Last Supper frescoes in Quattrocento Florence.
Lent is a period of penance and privation in the church calendar. However, in some male religious houses in Florence the Easter period may also have involved festal elements. Documentary materials will be explored for their potential to contextualise some of the innovative iconographical features of the Last Supper images in which lamb and unseasonal fruits, and not penitential fish, were depicted on the tables. The paper will offer the view that the Last Supper refectory images in these houses may be seen as reflecting some of the dichotomous aspects of celebration and penance associated with Easter and Holy Thursday.
ART DECO WALK
Friday August 15 2008 10:30 am
Lisa Beaven Lecturer, Art History, La Trobe University & Katrina Grant Doctoral candidate, Art History, University of Melbourne
Melbourne is widely acknowledged as one of the world's key sites of Art Deco art and architecture. To coincide with the NGV Winter Masterpieces exhibition Art Deco 1910- 1939 FAN is organising a tour of some of the CBD's key Art Deco works. Join Lisa Beaven and Katrina Grant for a tour of Melbourne Art Deco buildings.
NGV FLOORTALK Wednesday 6 August 2008, 12:00 midday
Decoding the Hang: Current trends in Gallery Design and Curatorial Display at the New NGV International
with Dr Chris Marshall, Senior Lecturer, Art History and Museum Studies, University of Melbourne.
In December 2003 the NGVI re-opened to the public after a three-year closure and ensuing redevelopment program undertaken by Mario Bellini in association with Métier 3. Now four and a half years later, it seems timely for us to ask, how is the 'new and improved' NGVI settling into its new look? How do the Bellini galleries and current curatorial displays compare with the NGV of days gone by? And what trends can we detect that might point the way - curatorially speaking at least - to the NGV of the future? Join Christopher Marshall as he takes FAN members through a walk-through discussion of these and other issues relating to the recent evolution of gallery design and curatorial displays at the National Gallery of Victoria International.
The 2008 Joseph Burke Lecture
Dr Alex Baker
Senior Curator Contemporary Art, National Gallery of Victoria
It’s All About You: Generosity in the Art of Harrell Fletcher
Thursday 22 May 2008, at 6.30pm
Elisabeth Murdoch Theatre, University of Melbourne
In a contemporary art world fixated on the artist as object-making superstar and the glamour associated with art fairs, international biennials, and mind-boggling auction figures, the artist Harrell Fletcher (based in Portland, Oregon, U.S.A.) turns the present state of affairs on its head. In a practice spanning over a decade now, Fletcher makes few sellable objects, shuns the well-heeled collector circuit, and eschews the cult of personality so often associated with the artist these days. Fletcher directs the spotlight away from himself by shifting attention on to the aspirations and talents of others. From siting a temporary museum focusing on local peoples’ lives in a northern California shopping mall, to working with an eight year old boy as the principle decision-maker for a work of public art created for a park in France to his collaborative web-based project with artist Miranda July, Learning to Love You More, in which they assign people various tasks for which the results are posted on the site regardless of the participant’s standing as artists (anyone who fully completes an assignment is acknowledged), Fletcher’s art is really all about you, rather than all about him.
Free event - all welcome.
FAN Member drinks at 6.00pm. RSVP drinks: AHCCA-FAN@unimelb.edu.au
Dinner with the Speaker at University House afterwards. Dinner bookings click here.
The Fine Arts Network. In collaboration with the Art History Chapter of the La Trobe University Alumni
HIDDEN COLLECTIONS VISIT
Visit to Villa Alba
44 Walmer Street, Kew
Villa Alba was constructed in the 1880s and is notable for its painted decorations. The garden has been reconstructed to its 1880s state.
Friday 23 May 2008, 11.30 am
Morning tea, a guided tour of the house and the R.J. Hamer heritage garden.
Cost: $10 - to be paid on the day. Meet at front door.
All welcome, but please RSVP attendance to: trenerry@alphalink.com.au
Poster
NGV FLOORTALK Tuesday 29 April 2008, 12:00 midday
Visiting The Great Painting
with Dr Susan Lowish, Lecturer, Australian Art History, Melbourne University, and
Mr Brian McKinnon, Indigenous Project Office, National Gallery of Victoria
Meet at the Information Desk, Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia (Federation Square), at 11.50 am.
Free event, all welcome, but please RSVP attendance to: s.gillberg@bigpond.com
A special floor talk will be held in front of the masterwork, Napperby Death Spirit Dreaming (1980) by Tim Leura and Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri. It will be given by Dr Susan Lowish, Lecturer in Australian Art History and Mr Brian McKinnon, Indigenous Project Office, National Gallery of Victoria. This large work is an important lasting legacy provided to us by these artists of their country, history, and Dreaming. Background information about Papunya, Geoff Bardon and the social history which generated the work will be provided by Lowish, while Mckinnon will bring to the work a discussion of some of the cultural aspects stemming from his personal connections to the artists and the larger stories which inform the work.
Monday 21 April 2008 at 7:30 pm
British School at Rome Artists and Alumni Dinner
FAN is pleased to announce the second BSR Artists and Alumni dinner will be held in the Karagheusian Room at University House, the University of Melbourne, with Dr Susan Russell (Assistant Director, Humanities, British School at Rome) as our guest of honour.
This is a unique opportunity to meet artists and scholars who are alumni of the British School at
Rome.
Cost of the dinner is $70 for two courses including coffee and wine.
Book early as places are limited. Reserve a place by emailing AHCCA-FAN@unimelb.edu.au
AND sending the booking form with payment to FAN.
NGV Floortalk
With
Dr Mark Stocker
Art History and Theory, University of Otago
Macsculpture: the Art of Bertram Mackennal
Friday 30 November 2007 at 12 midday
NGV Australia, Federation Square
Mark Stocker will take us on a floortalk of the new exhibition of the work of Sir Bertram Mackennal (1863-1931), who was arguably the leading sculptor in Britain and the British Empire 100 years ago. Mark Stocker is Associate Professor of Art History and Theory at the University of Otago and is one of several contributors to the magnificent book which accompanies the exhibition.
Click here for poster
Wednesday 14 November 2007 9.30-6.00 pm.
Symposium: Art in Baroque Rome. New Directions in Research
Baroque Arcadias — Baroque Display
with Keynote Addresses by by Macgeorge Visiting Speakers
Karin Wolfe
Dr Wolfe is an independent scholar attached to the British School at Rome and has published extensively on the art patronage of the Barberini, Caravaggio, Gianlorenzo Bernini, and Francesco Borromini, and is currently writing a monograph on the eighteenth-century painter Francesco Trevisani (by whom there is a fine work in the National Gallery of Victoria).
and
Tommaso Manfredi
Professor Manfredi teaches in the Faculty of Architecture at the University of Reggio Calabria and is a leading scholar on Roman eighteenth-century architecture, with an exhaustive list of publications, essays, articles, and books dealing with the major 17th and 18th century Roman architects such as Borromini and Juvarra and with Baroque urbanism.
Speakers
David R. Marshall — Lisa Beaven — Tim Ould — Glenys Adams — Victoria Hobday — Mark Shepheard — Katrina Grant
Date
Wednesday 14 November 2007 9.30-6.00 pm.
Location
Elisabeth Murdoch Theatre, Old Pathology Building, The University of Melbourne
Program
For the full program, click here.
For Poster in .pdf format, click here
For audio recordings of the conference
FAN gratefully acknowledges the support of the Macgeorge Bequest
Visits to Hidden Collections
(This is a FAN Members only Event)
Friday 16 November 2007
10.45am for 11.00am
Piranesi (and Others) Among the Ruins
Dr Colin Holden, Fellow, School of Culture and Communication, The University of Melbourne has invited Fine Arts Network members to view part of his Old Master and Australian print collection.
As well as the Carceri images, exhibited earlier this year at the National Gallery of Victoria, Piranesi created outstanding images of Roman ruins, which were much sought after by English, French and German grand tourists of the 18th century.
This viewing will concentrate on images of the Temple of the Sybil at Tivoli by Piranesi, Silvestre and van der Velde, as well as some other old master images that are set in the midst of ruins of one kind or another. There will also be some examples of Australia’s own variation on this theme.
Guests are limited to 20.
EUROPEAN VISUAL CULTURE SEMINAR
Anna Drummond
A Magnificent, Mysterious Matrimony: Giovanni Angelo Del Maino’s Marriage of the Virgin at the Poldi Pezzoli, Milan
Monday 19 November 2007 6.30 pm
Room 148 Elisabeth Murdoch Building
All Welcome
Around 1525 Lombardian artist Giovanni Angelo Del Maino completed a stunning wooden relief depicting the Marriage of the Virgin. Del Maino was a highly regarded sculptor who produced a series of major altarpieces for churches north of Milan. The work has been ascribed to an altarpiece commissioned for the Sanctuary of the Madonna, in Tirano, Lombardy, that commemorated an apparition of the Virgin. Yet a re-examination of the documents surrounding the commission and contemporary descriptions of the work casts doubt on this conclusion. Similarly, the relief treats the Marriage of the Virgin on a largely unprecedented scale in a highly luxurious fashion, neither of which have been satisfactorily accounted for. This paper examines Del Maino’s sculpture, its iconography and its supposed commission to explain its unusual treatment of the subject.
Friday 19 October 12.00 pm.
Floortalk at the NGV
Stephen Gilchrist
New acquisitions by two great Kunwinjku artists. One by Bardayal Nadjamerrek titled Ubarr and the other Male and female mimih by Midjawmidjaw
Tuesday 23 October
The Fine Arts Network and The School of the School of Culture & Communication present
The 2007 Margaret Manion Lecture
'Imperial Lines: Harold Wright and Printmaking and Collecting at the End of Empire'
Dr David Maskill
University of Wellington, New Zealand
Tuesday 23 October 6.30-7.30 pm, Elisabeth Murdoch Lecture Theatre
Harold Wright (1885-1961) is well-known to print curators in Australia and New Zealand as the founder of a unique scholarship for recipients to study the great print collection of the British Museum. But what has gone largely unacknowledged is the fact that the scholarship was an extension, after Wright's death, of a process of education and acquisition that he conducted throughout his life as the major advisor to private print collectors and public institutions in our region.
At Colnaghi's, the Bond Street dealers he served for over fifty years, Wright presided over the last flourish of the so-called 'Etching Revival'. He believed that these British printmakers, following the lead of their French counterparts, were the true heirs to the great European tradition of printmaking, not the contemporary artists of the avant-garde. This view of the history of printmaking, while at odds with the prevailing canon, has directly informed the early print collecting of our major institutions.
Audio recording
Poster
Wednesday 24 October
Launch of emaj issue 2
Courtyard, Elisabeth Murdoch Building, 5.30 pm.
8 October
Launch of the latest volume of the Melbourne Art Journal
Art, Site and Spectacle: Studies in Early Modern Visual Culture, edited by David R. Marshall, Melbourne Art Journal 9-10, 2007.
The publication was launched by Dr Gerard Vaughan, Director, National Gallery of Victoria
Monday 8 October, Foyer of the Elisabeth Murdoch Lecture Theatre
Members Drinks from 5.30 — launch 6.00. Followed at 6.30 by double-bill lecture from Robyn McKenzie and Alison Inglis (see below)
Poster
Book Cover
Book Sample
8 October
Double-bill Lecture: 'Almost Human: The Animal in Nineteenth-Century Art'
Robyn Mackenzie: 'Anthropomorphia: A Story told through Pictures'
The mainstream of modernist rationalist thought takes anthropomorphism to be simply an error, and the art that expresses it as either comical, or plain bad. The anthropomorphic impulse is more interesting, pressing on the neuralgic trigger point of our myriad relationships with animals. Using 19th-century images, this lecture explores the implications of the anthropomorphic impulse for the human/animal relationship.
Alison Inglis: 'The Animal as Superhero'
The Victorian age was the first to recognise the ‘humanity’ of animals. Animals in painting and sculpture no longer simply exhibited emotions, they became protagonists engaged in acts of heroism and sacrifice. The great 19th-century examples of animal art demonstrate an extreme anthropomorphism that leads to a ‘blurring in the distinctions’ between man and beast. This lecture will argue that the underlying conceptualization of heroic animals has re-emerged with new vigour in popular culture, especially in its cinematic forms.
Robyn Mackenzie and Alison Inglis are graduates of the Art History program at Melbourne University and are well known to Melbourne audiences as expert and popular speakers, commentators and teachers in the areas of contemporary art, nineteenth-century Victorian painting and Art Curatorship. Don't miss this great opportunity to hear them together address their longstanding interest in animal imagery in the Victorian era.
Monday 8 October 6.30pm, Elisabeth Murdoch Theatre. Following launch of 'Art, Site and Spectacle: Studies in Early Modern Visual Culture', Melbourne Art Journal Volumes 9-10.
Poster
European Visual Culture Seminar
John Weretka
Art and Ecstasy: A new look at Bernini's Saint Teresa.
Monday 10 September 6:30 - 8:00 pm Elisabeth Murdoch Building Room 148
Special Collections Visit to the Textile Collection, NGV
Laura Jocic, Assistant Curator, Australian Fashion and Textiles, NGV
Wednesday 5 September 11.00 am. FAN Members only.
NGV Floortalk
Dr Felicity Harley
Art History, University of Melbourne
Death by Daddi: The NGV Processional Cross. A new attribution?
Floortalk, NGV International Friday 31 August 11.30 am
European Visual Culture Seminar
Charles Green & Lyndell Brown
Both Sides of the Wire, Part 2: Towards an Iconography of Contemporary Conflict.
Monday 27 August 6:30 - 8:00 pm Elisabeth Murdoch Building Room 148
FAN Conversation
Richard J Evans in Conversation with Laurie Benson
The Restitution of Art in World War II: Lessons for Australian Museums
Monday 20 August 5.30 - 7.00 pm Elisabeth Murdoch Building Room 148
European Visual Culture Seminar
Donald Preziosi & Clare Farago
Seeing Through Art History.
Monday 6 August 6:30 - 8:00 pm Elisabeth Murdoch Building Room 148
European Visual Culture Seminar
John Bigelow
Plato's Demiurge in Raphael's Stanza della Segnatura.
Monday 18 June 6:45 - 8:00 pm Elisabeth Murdoch Building Room 148
Thursday 7 June
NGV Exhibition Tour
David R. Marshall
Piranesi's Imaginary Prisons
Friday 1 June
NGV New Acquisition FLOORTALK
Dr Frank Heckes
La Trobe University
Jusepe de Ribera's 'Martyrdom of Saint Lawrence'
The 2007 Joseph Burke Lecture
John Wolseley
Environment into Art, the Curlew, the Swamp and the Warming of the Seas
6.30 pm Tuesday 22 May Elisabeth Murdoch Theatre, University of Melbourne
European Visual Culture Seminar
Domingo Cordoba
Tradition, Modernity and Bullfights. The Portrayal of the Fiestas Nacional in the works of Regoyos and Zuloaga.
Monday 14 May 6:45 - 8:00 pm Elisabeth Murdoch Building Room 148
Michael Rosenthal in Conversation with David Hansen
Monday 23 April 4.45 - 6.45 pm Elisabeth Murdoch Building Room 148
European Visual Culture Seminar
Mark Shepheard
Monday 23 April 6.45 - 8.00 pm Elisabeth Murdoch Building Room 148
Wednesday 11 April
NGV FLOORTALK
Professor Michael Rosenthal
University of Warwick
Gainsborough at the NGV ... and more
Floortalk, NGV International Wednesday 11 April 11.00 am
Meet near Enquiries Desk Ground Floor, NGV International, at 10.50 am.
Free event, all welcome, but please RSVP attendance to: s.gillberg@bigpond.com
In collaboration with Art History Alumni, La Trobe University.
Paolo Uccello’s Saint George and the Dragon and the Threat of the Pagan
Dr Hugh Hudson
Floortalk, NGV International
Friday 23rd March, 11.30am.
Paolo Uccello’s Saint George and the Dragon in the National Gallery of Victoria is the earliest and arguably the most important of the three versions of the subject by the artist. This floortalk will discuss the Melbourne painting’s provenance, technique, style, iconography, and what it reveals of Uccello’s work in the early 1430s, the decade in which he painted such masterpieces as the Equestrian Monument for Sir John Hawkwood in Florence Cathedral and the Battle paintings. The work’s iconography will be addressed in terms of Christianity’s fear of the pagan – ‘the poisonous cunning of the old snake’ – expressed through imagery referring to the eternal battle between cosmic forces of good and evil, life and death, light and darkness. The danger the dragon represents to the princess in Uccello’s painting can be read as a metaphor of the threat posed by pagan influences on children.
Thursday 16 November 9.30 to 5.00 pm.
Symposium
Art and Culture in Renaissance Tuscany. New Directions in Research
Keynote speaker: Anabel Thomas (keynote: author of Art and Piety in the Female Religious Communities of Renaissance Italy (Cambridge 2003) and The Painter's Practice in Renaissance Tuscany (Cambridge: 1997)
Speakers include: Bill Kent; Robert W. Gaston; Peter Howard; Nerida Newbigin, Louise Marshall; Hugh Hudson; Diana Hiller.
Elisabeth Murdoch Theatre University of Melbourne
For more information and abstracts click here
For Registration Form click here
Registration: $30; $15 FAN members.
Anabel Thomas
The Significance of the Pig. Interrelations between Artistic Practice and Local History
Bill Kent
Some Reflections on Recent Research on Art and Culture in Renaissance Tuscany
Nerida Newbigin
Finding a voice: Frederick III and his visits to Florence in 1452
Robert Gaston
Meditations on Space, Place, and Recent Florentine Art History
Peter Howard
Preaching and Painting in Renaissance Florence
Louise Marshall
The Saint and the City: Identifying the Subject of Giovanni di Paolo's Vienna 'Miracle of Saint Nicholas of Tolentino'
Diana Hiller
‘Do You See What I See, Brother?’ The Gendered Conventual Gaze and Judas in Florentine Last Supper Frescoes
Hugh Hudson
Beyond Florence: Paolo Uccello in the Contado and Further Afield
The Melbourne Rome Scholarship
Fine Arts Network is proud to be associated with the Melbourne Rome Scholarship.
This scholarship is for a Postgraduate or Postdoctoral Students to research a project dealing with the art history, archaeology, architectural history, urbanism, or history of designed landscapes of Rome or its region from antiquity to the twentieth century. The Scholarship includes return airfares, broad and lodging for three months, and expenses.
For further details, follow this link:
Thursday 12th October
The Fine Arts Network and The School of Art History, Cinema, Classics & Archaeology present
The 2006 Margaret Manion Lecture
Dr David Hansen
Former Senior Curator of Art at the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery
'Remarkable Characters': John Dempsey and the Representation of the Urban Poor in Regency Britain
Theatre A, Elisabeth Murdoch Building, The University of Melbourne.
6.30pm – 7.30pm.
Audio Download
Note: The lecture (including introductions) starts at about 0:10 and finishes at about 01:19.
Poster (pdf file)
Thursday 5 October 2.00 pm —3.00 pm
Charles Blackman’s Alice in Wonderland
A New Perspective on Australian Art
Felicity St John Moore
Will lead a tour of the exhibition, NGV Australia
Felicity St John Moore is co-author of the exhibition catalogue and an Honorary Fellow in the School of Art History, Cinema, Classics and Archaeology. She curated the Charles Blackman: Schoolgirls and Angels Retrospective at the National Gallery of Victoria in 1993. Her other titles include Sam Fullbrook: Racing Colours, NGV 1995; Classical Modernism: The George Bell Circle, NGV 1992; Angry Penguins and Realist painting in Melbourne in the 1940s, AETA 1989; Vassilieff and his art, OUP Melbourne 1982.
Exhibition entry cost applies. Adults $10, NGV Members $5, Concession $7
Participants need to obtain tickets independently, and meet at the entrance to the exhibition, NGV Australia, with ticket, at 1.55 pm.
Free event, all welcome, but RSVP attendance is required. Numbers limited.
RSVP to: s.gillberg@bigpond.com (Susan Gillberg)
Download pdf poster here.
Floortalk: Friday 15 September 12.00 midday—1.00 pm
Mark Shepheard
Jacopo Amigoni: The Singer Farinelli and his Friends (1750-52) A Painting Fit for a King
Amigoni’s Portrait Group: the Singer Farinelli & his Friends, recently cleaned and now looking spectacular, is one of the artist’s finest works and proof of his warm affection for his friend and colleague, the singer Farinelli. This talk will discuss the painting within the context of Amigoni’s other portraits of Farinelli and its place within the latter’s own extraordinary collection.
Mark Shepheard is a postgraduate student with an interest in the intersections between art and music in the 17th and 18th centuries. He is also a broadcaster on 3MBS 103.5 FM, where his programme The Early Music Experience can be heard on Thursdays at 7pm
Mark Shepheard
Download pdf poster here.
Tuesday 22 August 2006
FAN Postdoctoral Lecture
Felicity Harley
Crucifixion: An Image without Precedent
The image of Jesus crucified seems universally recognisable. But it was not always so. Images of the Crucifixion are so rare in art before the sixth century, some have concluded that the subject was actively avoided by the earliest Christians. This lecture argues that the Crucifixion was depicted in art at least two centuries earlier than usually thought, appearing in surprising contexts, and presenting Jesus in an unexpected guise.
Dr Felicity Harley held a postdoctoral fellowship at the Warburg Institute in London, and was the Ralegh Radford Fellow at the British School at Rome before being appointed Lecturer in Medieval Art History at the University of Melbourne this year. Her work on early Christian, Medieval and Byzantine art focuses particularly on iconographic traditions as well as historiographic aspects of the art's history. Her doctoral thesis challenged conventional views about the lack of emphasis on the crucifixion of Jesus in earliest Christian Art.
Free Public Lecture — Tuesday 22 August 2006
6.30 pm Elisabeth Murdoch Theatre, University of Melbourne
Friday 28th July
NGV-International Floortalk
Dr Susan Russell
Assistant Director, British School at Rome
Herman van Swanevelt, Italian Landscape on a Windy Day, (new NGV acquisition)
12 midday to 1.00pm. Meet at the Information Desk. Lunch afterwards at the NGV café (own expense).
Free admission. Rsvp attendance to a.james3@pgrad.unimelb.edu.au
or phone 0425 744 150.
Wednesday 2nd August
FAN-British School at Rome Dinner
7pm, Karagheusian Room, University House, The University of Melbourne, Parkville.
$60 per person. Pre-dinner drinks, three-course dinner, wines and coffee included. Please advise of any special dietary requirements when making your booking.
Contact June McBeth, ph: 8344 5565, or, email jmcbeth@unimelb.edu.au Rsvp by Thursday 27th July 2006.
Mabo Day, Saturday 3rd June, 2006 10am – 4pm
Clemenger Auditorium, NGV International
Symposium
New Visions: Histories of Art in Australia
Jointly hosted by:
The Fine Arts Network
The National Gallery of Victoria
School of Art History, Cinema, Classics and Archaeology, The University of Melbourne
Clemenger Auditorium, NGV International,
180 St Kilda Road, Melbourne
pdf poster (quick download)pdf flyer
Wednesday 24 May. 6.30 pm – 7.30 pm
Theatre A Elizabeth Murdoch Building: in collaboration with AHCCA
The Joseph Burke Lecture 2006
Ted Gott
Senior Curator, International Art, National Gallery of Victoria
Imaging the Beast: Emmanuel Fremiet, Gorilla-Sculptor
Long Lecture Abstract
Audio Download of Lecture
Poster for Lecture (.pdf Acrobat format)
Lecture-Function Lecture, Wine and Canapés — Monday 15 May 5.45-6.45 pm
The Mural Room, Grossi Florentino, 80 Bourke Street, Melbourne
Kenneth Park
The Waller Mural Room at Grossi Florentino
Grossi Florentino is a Melbourne landmark and a true gathering place of Melbourne and Australian society. The famous Mural Room has been a venue for many a celebration. The walls of the Mural Room are covered by the series of distinctive Florentine themed murals. Four students from Melbourne Technical College (now RMIT University) completed the murals under direction of the great Napier Waller in the 1930s. Join Kenneth Park for an informal and entertaining lecture on the history of Grossi Florentino and its murals, and experience the atmostphere of one Australia’s landmark restaurants.
pdf poster
Thursday 6 April – 6.30 pm
Theatre A Elizabeth Murdoch Building
FAN Lecture
Andrew Wallace-Hadrill
Director, British School at Rome
Saving Herculaneum
Herculaneum, destroyed in the same eruption as Pompeii, is less well known but in many ways preserves a more vivid image of Roman life. A conservation crisis puts both sites in imminent danger of a second destruction. This lecture describes the attempts of the Herculaneum Conservation Project to rescue the site and some impor¬tant new discoveries it has made. Professor Andrew Wallace-Hadrill, director of the project, is Director of the British School at Rome, author of books and articles on a wide range of themes of Roman social and cultural history, including Houses and Society in Pompeii and Herculaneum, and broadcaster of many programmes on the Roman world.
.pdf poster
This Lecture is available as an Audio Recording
Audio Download
You can download it to an iPod or MP3 player, or, by choosing the Quicktime option, hear by way of live streaming.
Note that the lecture begins at the 19:00 minute mark.
Introductory speeches begin at 9:30 minute mark
Wednesday 5 April 5 – 12.00 midday – 1.00 pm
Floortalk at the NGV Australia
Stephen Gilchrist
Julie Dowling, Federation Series 1901-2001. Ten portraits of a Family
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Saturday 25 March. 12 midday – 5 pm
Gallery Crawl
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Friday 17 March 12.00 midday to 1.00 pm
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Floortalk at the NGV International
Alison Inglis
Lecturer, AHCCA, University of Melbourne
The Pre-Raphaelite Femme-Fatale: The Rediscovery of Val Prinsep’s The Flight of Jane Shore (c.1865)
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FAN Seminar
Tuesday 6th December
Elisabeth Murdoch Building Room 148 2pm followed by afternoon tea.
Bernard Smith
Responding to the Indigenous in Australian Art History
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FAN Floortalk NGV International
Wednesday 16 November
David R. Marshall
Canaletto’s Bacino di San Marco in the NGV
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FAN Postdoctoral Lecture
Wednesday 9 November 6.30 pm
Elisabeth Murdoch Theatre University of Melbourne
Susan Lowish
Intersections:Figuring the Indigenous in Australia’s Art History
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The Margaret Manion Lecture 2005
Wednesday 12 October 2005 Lecture 6.30 p.m. Theatre A Elizabeth Murdoch Building: in collaboration with AHCCA
Robert W. Gaston
Associate Professor in Art History, La Trobe University
Untangling the Mannerist Narrative: Bronzino, Moses, and Eleanora of Toledo at the Palazzo Vecchio, Florence
Followed by Post-lecture Dinner, University House
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Lecture Abstract
Photographic Artists Talk
Tuesday 4 October 6.30 pm room 150 Elisabeth Murdoch Building
Donna Bailey & Carolyn Dew
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Gallery Crawl Fitzroy Area Galleries
Saturday 10 September 2-5 p.m
FAN Lecture
Wednesday 17 August 2005 6.30 p.m Theatre A Elisabeth Murdoch Building
David Lomas
Senior Lecturer in Art History, The University of Manchester, Associate Director AHRB Research Centre for the Study of Surrealism and its Legacies
Remedy or Poison? Modernity and Technology in Diego Rivera's History of Cardiology Murals (1943-44).
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FAN Lecture
Wednesday 18 May 2005 6.30 pm:
Anthony White
Courbet
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FAN Lecture
Thursday 26 May 2005 6.30 pp.
Anabel Thomas
Women, Family Dynasties and Franciscan Communities
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Saturday 28 May 2005 10.00-5.00:
Gallery Crawl to Inner Melbourne Galleries
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