Announcement of a new seminar series in early modern visual and material culture, held at Christ Church, University of Oxford:

Organisers:
Dr. Niko Munz, niko.munzchch.ox.ac.uk
Niklas Groschinski, niklas.groschinskimerton.ox.ac.uk
Venue:
Sir Michael Dummett Lecture Theatre
Christ Church,
St Aldate's,
Oxford, OX1 1DP
Time: Thursdays of odd weeks during Michaelmas term, 17.15
Audience: Open to all
Booking not required
Talks:
17th October, 17.15:
Speaker: Martin Kemp (Professor Emeritus in the History of Art, Oxford University)
“Dante and the Art of Divine Light”
31st October, 17.15:
Speaker: Paul Taylor (Curator of the Photographic Collection, The Warburg Institute, London)
“Iconography and Investment. Private Art Collections in Seventeenth-Century Holland”
[+ Introduction to the Warburg’s Photographic Collection and Iconographic Database]
14th November, 17.15:
Speaker: Sylvia Alvares-Correa (Junior Research Fellow, Christ Church, Oxford University)
“From Cologne to Lisbon: Translating the Cult of St Ursula”

28th November, 17.15:
Speaker: Allison Stielau (Lecturer in History of Art, UCL)
“Looting, Confiscation, and Concealed Treasure in Dutch Guardroom Scenes of the 1640s”