IN CAMBRIDGE
Things-(Re)constructing the Material World Seminar
‘Bronze’
8 June 2016, 12:00 – 14:00
Seminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building
Dr Victoria Avery (Keeper of Applied Arts, Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge)
Andrew Lacey (Artist and Independent Scholar)
Bronze was used in Renaissance Italy for numerous types of functional objects (artillery, bells, coins, lamps, inkwells) as well as decorative ones (equestrian monuments, statues, busts, medals). Extremely expensive, meaning-laden and complex to produce, works of art cast in bronze were desirable status symbols for Humanist patrons, and proofs of incredible technical mastery by sculptors and casters. Sculpture historian, Vicky Avery, and sculptor-founder, Andrew Lacey, will discuss ‘bronze in Italy c. 1500’ in terms of its meanings, usage and technology, focussing on the enigmatic Rothschild Bronzes, recently attributed to Michelangelo.
Open to all. No registration required .
IN LONDON
Sam Wanamaker Fellowship Lecture
Thursday 9 June 2016, 19.00
Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, Shakespeare’s Globe
‘Remembering and forgetting Shakespeare (and Cervantes and Jonson and Beaumont), or, what 1616 (and 1916) did for us.’
Professor Gordon McMullan (KCL) gives the 2016 Sam Wanamaker Fellowship Lecture.
http://www.shakespearesglobe.com/education/events/lectures-talks/fellowship
All the World’s a stage: Shakespeare in Europe and the Americas
Friday 10 June 2016, 10.30-17.00
Conference Centre, The British Library
This study day brings together leading specialists to explore Shakespeare’s cultural presence in Europe and the Americas.
http://www.bl.uk/events/all-the-worlds-a-stage-shakespeare-in-europe-and-the-americas
British History in the 17th Century Seminar (IHR)
Thursday, 9 June, 5.15pm
“His Lands as well as Goods / Sequestered ought to be”: the introduction of sequestration, 1642-3
Charlotte Young (RHUL)
Pollard Room N301, 3rd floor, IHR, North block, Senate House
Medieval and Tudor London Seminar (IHR)
Thursday, 9 June, 5.15pm
Building Henry VII’s Savoy Hospital, 1505-1520
Charlotte A Stanford (Brigham Young University)
Wolfson Room NB01, Basement, IHR, North block, Senate House
