Fourteenth Gerson Lecture: Patricia Lee Rubin, 'Portraits by the
Artist as a Young Man: Parmigianino ca. 1524'

On November 22, 2007, Professor Patricia Lee Rubin will give the
fourteenth Gerson Lecture in the Aula of the University of Groningen,
The Netherlands. Professor Rubin is Deputy Director of the Courtauld
Institute of Art and Head of the Courtauld Institute of Art Research
Forum, and the author of numerous articles and several books,
including Images and Identity in Fifteenth-Century Florence (2007)
and Giorgio
Vasari: Art and History (1995). Her lecture is titled: 'Portraits by
the Artist as a Young Man: Parmigianino ca. 1524'. Her text will be
available immediately after the lecture, as volume 14 of the series
'Gerson Lectures'.

Preceding the Gerson Lecture, there will be two additional lectures
on related topics, by dr. Lyckle de Vries (Groningen) and dr. Truus
van Bueren (University of Utrecht). They will be held in the lecture
room of the Department of Art History, Oude Boteringestraat 34,
Groningen.

In the morning, there will be the presentation of a book on Horst
Gerson, written by dr. Edward Grasman (Leiden University) on behalf
of the Gerson Lectures Foundation: Gerson in Groningen. Een portret
van Horst Gerson, kunstkenner en hoogleraar kunstgeschiedenis
(1907-1978). Speakers will be: prof. dr. Rudi Ekkart (Director of the
Netherlands Institute for Art History), prof. dr. Henk van Os
(University of Amsterdam) and dr. Edward Grasman himself.

All those interested are invited to attend the lectures. There is no
registration and no participation fee.

Times and places:

10.30 - 11.30 h.: lecture room of the Department of Art History, Oude
Boteringestraat 34, Groningen:

Presentation of the book by dr. Edward Grasman, Gerson in Groningen.
Een portret van Horst Gerson, kunstkenner en hoogleraar
kunstgeschiedenis (1907-1978)

13:30 - 15:30 h.: lecture room of the Department of Art History, Oude
Boteringestraat 34, Groningen:

13:30 - 14:30 h.: dr. Lyckle de Vries (Groningen): 'Mirror of the
Soul or Empty Mask? Contemporary Opinions on Dutch 17th-Century
Portraiture'

14:30 - 15:30 h.: dr. Truus van Bueren (University of Utrecht):
'Everyone His or Her Place: Gender Related Issues in the Medieval
Culture of Remembrance'

16:30 - 17:30 h.: Aula of the University of Groningen, Broerstraat 5:

Professor Patricia Lee Rubin, 'Portraits by the Artist as a Young
Man: Parmigianino ca. 1524'

17:30 h.: Reception in the Harmonie Building, Oude Kijk in 't
Jatstraat 26

For more information, please contact Elsje van Kessel
(E.van.Kessellet.leidenuniv.nl) or Jan L. de Jong (J.L.de.Jongrug.nl)