CENTRE FOR THE STUDY OF THE RENAISSANCE

UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK
STVDIO Schedule, Spring 2009
(Unless stated otherwise, talks are held at 5:00pmin the Humanities Building, Room 450)

Tuesday 13 January: Carla Zecher (Newberry Library), 'Unlocking the Newberry
Library: An Introduction to the Newberry Library's Collections, Seminar
Programmes, and Research Opportunities'. IAS Seminar Room, Millburn House.

Tuesday 20 January: Martin Stone (Leuven), ‘Do We Really Understand
Renaissance Ideas of Conscience?’

Tuesday 17 February: Nicholas Terpstra (Toronto), public lecture on ‘The Art of
Executing Well: Comforting the Condemned in Renaissance Italy’. 5:00pm, Arts
Centre Conference Room, followed by reception in the Mead Gallery.

Monday 23 February: Nicholas Terpstra (Toronto), public lecture on ‘When the
Saints Come Marching In: Civic Religion in the Italian Renaissance’. 5:00pm, Maths
Building, MS.05, followed by reception.

Tuesday 3 March: Brenda Hosington (Warwick, Centre for the Study of the
Renaissance), ‘Crossroads of Culture: Mapping Translation in Renaissance Britain,
1475-1640’.

Tuesday 10 March: Louise Bourdua (Warwick), ‘Exports to Padua Trecento Style:
Altichiero’s Roman Legacy’. 5:00pm, Humanities Building, Room 403.

Tuesday 21 April: Martin McLaughlin (Oxford), ‘Alberti’s Vita and Canis: Portrait
of the Artist as a Renaissance Dog’. 5:00pm, Humanities Building, Room 403.

Tuesday 5 May: Luke Syson (National Gallery of Art), ‘How Should We Read
Renaissance Pictures?’ 5:00pm, Humanities Building, Room 403.
STVDIO talks are supported by Warwick’s Humanities Research Centre. For further
information and details, contact Dr David Lines (d.a.lines@warwick.ac.uk) or consult the website of the Centre for the Study of the Renaissance: www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/ren