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Melbourne Portrait Group Seminar | Eugene Barilo von Reisberg: ‘Franz Xaver Winterhalter: Portraiture in the Age of Social Mobility’
Eugene Barilo von Reisberg (Art History Program, School of Culture & Communication), PhD Completion Seminar: ‘Franz Xaver Winterhalter: Portraiture in the Age of Social Mobility’.
Wednesday 16 December 2015, 6:00pm
University of Melbourne (Parkville), Baillieu Library, Dulcie Hollyock Room.
Lecture | Barbara Bryant: ‘Australia’s Pre-Raphaelite Collections: the People behind the Portraits
Barbara Bryant: ‘Australia’s Pre-Raphaelite Collections: the People behind the Portraits’.
Thursday 2 July, 6:30-7:30pm
NGV International, Ground Level, Clemenger Auditorium
Cost $16 M / $20 A / $18 C, Code P1549, Ph +61 3 8662 1555, 10am–5pm daily Continue reading
Collaboratory | Reading the Face: Image, Text and Emotion | University of Melbourne, 2-4 June 2015
The face is one of the most intense sites for the expression and communication of emotion. That intensity generates millions of representations of the face, in a range of textual, dramatic, visual, cinematic and material forms. This collaboratory will bring together research on representations of the expressive face, from the medieval to the modern world, from illumination and early print culture through to contemporary graphic novels, non-fiction and cinema. Continue reading
Melbourne Portrait Group Seminar | Dr Vivien Gaston: ‘Double Identity: William Orpen’s portrait of George C. Beresford (c. 1900) in the National Gallery of Victoria’.
Dr Vivien Gaston: ‘Double Identity: William Orpen’s portrait of George C. Beresford (c. 1900) in the National Gallery of Victoria.’
Thursday 30 April 2015, 6:45pm.
University of Melbourne, Baillieu Library, Dulcie Hollyock Room.
CHANGE OF VENUE: MPG Seminar on Edward Burne-Jones
Emily Wubben, ‘Artistic Souls: Baronne Madeleine Deslandes and her portrait by Edward Burne-Jones’
Monday 1 December, 6:30pm.
CHANGE OF VENUE: Visual Culture Resource Centre, 3rd Floor (next door to Room 344), East Tower, John Medley Building.
Melbourne Portrait Group Seminar | Emily Wubben: ‘Artistic Souls: Baronne Madeleine Deslandes and her portrait by Edward Burne-Jones’
Emily Wubben, ‘Artistic Souls: Baronne Madeleine Deslandes and her portrait by Edward Burne-Jones’
Monday 1 December, 6:30pm.
Melbourne Portrait Group Seminar | Alison Inglis: Portraiture and the Colonial Collection
Associate Professor Alison Inglis, ‘Portraiture and the Colonial Collection: Searching for Portraits in the National Gallery of Victoria in the Nineteenth Century
Monday 10 November, 6:30pm. Continue reading
Call for Papers: Portraiture Conference
Portraiture as Interaction: The Spaces and Interfaces of the British Portrait
The Huntington, San Marino, California, 11–12 December 2015
Proposals due by 7 November 2014
A symposium jointly organized by the Yale Center for British Art, the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, and the Huntington
This symposium has been inspired by the important collections of British portraits at the Huntington Art Gallery and the Yale Center for British Art, and by an upsurge of scholarly interest in the interactive nature of portraiture—both in its intrinsic character and as a curatorial construct. Continue reading
Call for papers: Portraiture Panel at ISECS 2015
Pictures in Motion: Portraiture around the World during the Long Eighteenth Century
14th Congress of the International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies: Opening Markets, Trade and Commerce in the Eighteenth Century.
Rotterdam, 26-31 July 2015.
Proposals due by 12 January 2014 (earlier submissions are encouraged) Continue reading