1400-1650

RENAISSANCE DECORATIVE ARTS AND CULTURE, 1400-1650
Research Seminars 2006
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 5.00 pm

Wednesday 11th January
‘Contingent Relations: A Portrait of Robert Sidney 1587/88 – England and
the Low Countries, Images and Texts’
Lucy Gent

Wednesday 18th January
‘The Patronage and Collecting of Mencía de Mendoza, Marchioness of Zenete
(1508-1554)’
Noelia García Pérez (University of Murcia)

Wednesday 25th January
‘The Bare Necessities: Furnishing a Conclave Cubicle’
Mary Hollingsworth

Wednesday 1nd February
‘The Word on the Streets: Visual and Material Cultures of Text in Ming
China’

Craig Clunas (SOAS)

Wednesday 15th February
‘What Was Wrong with Michelangelo's Last Judgement? Provocations to
Censorship in 16th-Century Rome’
Michael Bury (University of Edinburgh)

Wednesday 22rd February
‘Engaging Sculpture in Early Modern Italy’
Geraldine Johnson (Oxford University)

The seminar meets weekly during term at 5.00 p.m. in the Victoria and
Albert Museum. It is held in the V&A/RCA Seminar Room A, located in the
Research Department adjacent to the Metalwork Department offices. To get
there, go to the top of the staircase decorated with ceramic tiles that
leads from the Italian Renaissance Gallery (Room 11) on level A. Continue
up past the Silver Gallery (Room 70a) on level B to the top of the stairs.

For any further enquiries about the research seminars or about the V&A/RCA
MA Course in the History of Design contact Katrina Royall at
k.royallvam.ac.uk
or telephone 020 7942 2574.