2023-2024 AGAS Lecture Series | Nina Rowe

Banner artwork: Nero and the Doctors, in a World Chronicle manuscript, southern Germany, 1402. (Image: New York, New York Public Library, Spencer MS 38, fol. 343r.)

2022-2023 AGAS Lecture Series | Margaret Samu

Artwork on promotional banner: Ivan Kramskoi, The Mermaids, 1871, oil on canvas, 34.6 x 51.9 inches. Tretyakov Gallery. Image courtesy Wikimedia Commons.

Rusalka: Slavic Folklore, Supernatural Women, and the Ukrainian Other

2022-2023 AGAS Lectures Series: James A. van Dyke

Dr. James van Dyke is a current Associate Professor and the Director of Graduate Studies at the University of Missouri.

2021-2022 AGAS LECTURE SERIES, Making Up Materials: Donatello and the Cosmetic Act

Throughout his career, Donatello (1383/6–1464) produced a number of sculptures with surfaces that simulated a more precious material than the one underneath.

2021-2022 AGAS Lecture Series, Forming Abstraction: Art and Institutions in Postwar Brazil

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In the Vortex of Art and Identity: The Black Female as Object and Subject

Dr. Adrienne Childs: “In the Vortex of Art and Identity: Black Female as Object and Subject”

AGAS Lecture: Dr. Linda Merrill

"Translating the Ten O'Clock"

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Dr. Amanda Hellman AGAS Lecture

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The China Trade and Emerging Imperial Aesthetics in Federal America

Immediately after the Revolution, American ships embarked for China, India, Indonesia, the Philippines, and other destinations.

The Gothic Body: Hands, Touch and the Formation of Presence in Thirteenth-Century French and German Sculpture

The sculpted bodies that confront visitors to Gothic cathedrals – on portals, screens, and interior walls – represent a wide swath of characters.

Stephanie Dickey Lecture: Rembrandt's Women / Then and Now

Rembrandt's representations of women have long inspired strong reactions in viewers, from empathy for his loving sketches of his wife Saskia to disgust at his lifelike depictions of the nude. Meanwhile, his own relationships with women form a complicated chapter of his biography.