REGISTRATION FORM: GRAND SCALE SYMPOSIUM
Thursday, March 20, 2008
Collins Cinema 9:30 am – 5:30 pm
The Davis Museum and Cultural hosts an international symposium in conjunction with the exhibition Grand Scale: Monumental Prints in the Age of Dürer and Titian. Eight scholars from the United States, Canada and Europe will examine the phenomenon of oversize, composite printmaking in 16th-century Europe and beyond from a wide range of perspectives. These talks will expand upon the points of view provided in the exhibition catalogue, and will cover material in the exhibition in addition to some that is not.
Grand Scale: Monumental Prints in the Age of Dürer and Titian will be on view at the Davis from March 19 through June 8, 2008; the exhibition travels to the Yale University Art Gallery, September 9 through November 30, 2008 and the Philadelphia Museum of Art, January 31 through April 26, 2009. The exhibition presents little-seen woodcuts, engravings and etchings from Italy, Germany and the Netherlands that were conceived on a scale to rival, and be used in the same manner as more permanent media such as painting, tapestry and sculpture. The exhibition provides an extraordinary chance to see these prints, which are rarely exhibited at all and virtually never shown together. Catalogue published by the Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College, in association with Yale University Press, New Haven and London.
No Fee. Limited Seating. Registration Required.
PROGRAM
Coffee will be available in the Davis Museum lobby
Galleries open from 8:30 am until 7:00 pm
Session 1, 9:40-1:00
Collins Cinema
9:40-9:50
Welcoming remarks
David Mickenberg, Ruth Gordon Shapiro '37 Director
9:50-10:00
Introductions
Larry Silver, Farquhar Professor of Art History at the University of Pennsylvania
10-10:30
Ashley West, Chester Dale Fellow, Department of Drawings and Prints, Metropolitan Museum of Art
“Thinking in Pieces: Augsburg and the Earliest Multi-block Woodcuts in the North”
10:40--11:10
Thomas Schauerte, Assistant Lecturer, University of Trier, Germany
“Behind the Arch: Some Remarks on Printing Technique and Authorship of Emperor Maximilian’s ‘Ehrenpforte’”
11:20-11:50
Christopher P. Heuer, Assistant Professor, Department of Art & Archaeology, Princeton University
“Dürer’s Folds”
12:00-12:30
Eva Allen, Ph.D candidate, History of Art, Yale University
“Triumph and the Turk: The Multi-Block Print by Pieter Coecke van Aelst”
Lunch/galleries open 12:45-2:00
(list of on- and off-campus places for lunch will be provided)
Session 2
Collins Cinema
2:00-2:10
Introductions, Elizabeth Wyckoff, Assistant Director and Curator of Prints and Drawings, Davis Museum and Cultural Center
2:10-2:40
Bronwen Wilson, Associate Professor, University of British Columbia
“Inscription and the Horizon in Early Modern Printed City Views”
2:50-3:20
Tom Conley, Abbott Lawrence Lowell Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and of Visual and Environmental Studies, Harvard University
Title TBA
3:40-4:10
Michael Bury, Reader in History of Art, University of Edinburgh, Scotland
“The Early Prints after Michelangelo’s Last Judgment”
4:20-4:50
Louis Marchesano, Curator of Prints and Drawings, The Getty Research Institute
“Printing the Grand Manner: Charles Le Brun and the Monumental Prints of the Ancien Régime”
5:00-5:30
Wrap-up session moderated by Larry Silver and Elizabeth Wyckoff
Reception and Galleries open 5:30-7:00
Registration Form
