• Type: Seminar Series
• Timing: Mondays, 5 pm
• Organising department: St Catherine's College

Monday 16 January 2017

• 17:00 - ‘Botticelli’s Illustrations of Dante’s Paradiso: The Construction of Conjoined Vision’
  Heather Webb (University of Cambridge, Dept of Italian)

Monday 23 January 2017

• 17:00 - ‘Drawing and Venice’
  Catherine Whistler (Ashmolean Museum, Dept of Western Art)

Monday 30 January 2017

• 17:00 - ‘Marble, Grisaille, Print: Materials and Visual Hagiography in Renaissance Italy’
  Diana Presciutti (University of Essex, Dept of Art History)

Monday 6 February 2017

• 17:00 - ‘Originality and Ownership in Grand Ducal Florence’
  Hannah Kinney (University of Oxford, Dept of Art History)

Monday 13 February 2017

• 17:00 - ‘Moving Pictures: Cardinals in Copes’
  Julian Gardner (University of Warwick, Dept of Art History)

Monday 20 February 2017

• 17:00 - ‘Women as creditors, debtors and intermediaries: the informal economy of credit in seventeenth-century Venice’
  James Shaw (University of Sheffield, Dept of History)

Monday 27 February 2017

• 17:00 - ‘The Count’s Funeral. Rural Lordship and the City in Fifteenth-Century Lombardy’
  Marco Gentile (Università degli Studi di Parma, Dept of History)

Monday 6 March 2017

• 17:00 - ‘Ghiberti’s Commentarii: A Guide to Looking’
  Jim Harris (Ashmolean Museum), Peter Dent (University of Bristol, Dept of Art History)

Monday 15 January 2018

• 17:00 - ‘Michelangelo’s David and his Sling‘
  Luca Giuliani (Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin)

Monday 22 January 2018

• 17:00 - 'Touch, texture and the Franciscan habit’
  Cordelia Warr (Manchester University)

Monday 29 January 2018

• 17:00 - ‘Brunelleschi Impresario: new chapels and new altarpieces at San Lorenzo, Florence'
  Christa Gardner von Teuffel (Oxford)

Monday 5 February 2018

• 17:00 - ‘Insulting women and women insulting in early modern Italy: Literary and criminal history’
  Ambrogio Camozzi Pistoja (Cambridge University)

Monday 12 February 2018

• 17:00 - ‘Luca Martini: Dante scholar and patron of the arts in the service of the Medici’
  Oscar Schiavone (Durham University)

Monday 19 February 2018

• 17:00 - ‘Neoplatonism, Aristotelianism, body and soul in Leonardo’s Milan’
  Maya Corry (Oxford University)

Monday 26 February 2018

• 17:15 - ‘The long prehistory of the pittura infamante (IX-XIII centuries)’
  Giuliano Milani (Université Paris Est Marne-la-Vallée)

Monday 5 March 2018

• 17:00 - 'Hercules in Venice: Aldus Manutius and Erasmus of Rotterdam'
  Oren Margolis (Oxford University)

Monday 14 January 2019

• 17:00 - ‘Confronting the canon: Two new drawings in the Mantegna and Bellini exhibition at the National Gallery’
  Sarah Vowles (Department of Prints & Drawings, British Museum)

Monday 21 January 2019

• 17:00 - ‘“Making Aristotle vernacular" in Padua and Florence: Benedetto Varchi's Italian translations and commentaries on Aristotle (1538-43)’
  Simon Gilson (Italian Department, Oxford University)

Monday 28 January 2019

• 17:00 - ‘A knight and his library in the age of the aristocratic communes: Romanitas, chivalry, and urbanitas in the 12th and 13th centuries’
  Lorenzo Caravaggi (Balliol College, Oxford)

Monday 4 February 2019

• 17:00 - ‘“It’s yours for $450 million.” Leonardo’s Salvator Mundi’
  Martin Kemp (Trinity College, Oxford)

Monday 11 February 2019

• 17:00 - ‘Mercanti artisti: Illustrating the book in the late-medieval Italian home’
  Lia Costiner (Merton College, Oxford)

Monday 18 February 2019

• 17:00 - ‘Between shipwreck and the giants: Leon Battista Alberti’s letter to Filippo Brunelleschi’
  Caspar Pearson (History of Art Department, Essex University)

Monday 25 February 2019

• 17:00 - ‘Aesop’s Fables in the 15th-century Veneto, in manuscript (BL 10389) and print’
  Matilde Malaspina (Lincoln College, Oxford)

Monday 4 March 2019

• 17:00 - 'The Sense of Touch in Italian Renaissance anatomy’
  Viktoria von Hoffmann (Fund for Scientific Research, F.R.S.-FNRS / University of Liège)