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Paper Title:
Jesuit Confraternities in Germany and the Art of Sensual
Engagement
Speaker:
Professor Jeffrey Chips Smith (The University
of Texas at Austin)
Date:
Wednesday 29 August 2012
Time:
6.00pm
Venue:
Arts Lecture Room 6 (G.62)
Event information:
This event is part of the Centre for Medieval and Early Modern
Studies and the Perth Medieval and Renaissance Group 2012
Public Lecture Series. These lectures are open to the
public. For further information please email Dr Joanne McEwan
Related Events:
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Albrecht Dürer & The Quest for Fame, UQ Art Museum, 23
August.
Biography:
Professor Smith joined the faculty at the University of Texas in
1979 shortly after receiving his Ph.D. from Columbia University.
Smith was a visiting scholar-in-residence at the
Geisteswissenschaftliches Zentrum Geschichte und Kultur
Ostmitteleuropas e. V. at the University of Leipzig in June and
July 2006; and the holder of the Anna-Maria Kellen Berlin Prize, a
residential fellowship at the American Academy in Berlin in
January-May 2010. He is the recipient of numerous grants and awards
including fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial
Foundation (1998-99), the Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung of Bonn
(1985-86, summer 1988, 1992-93), American Council of Learned
Societies, Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst, Getty Grant
Program, the Kimbell Art Foundation, National Endowment for the
Humanities, among others. Smith's books have garnered numerous book
prizes. He served as a member of the Board of Directors of the
Historians of Netherlandish Art (1989-94), College Art Association
(1996-2000), Renaissance Society of America (2000-09), Sixteenth
Century Society and Conference (2004-07), and Frühe Neuzeit
Interdisziplinär (2007-12; and as President 2008-12). Smith served
as the Articles Editor of the Renaissance Quarterly (2003-06) and
Associate Editor (2000-03 and 2006-09). He is one of the inaugural
co-editors (2008-12) of the Journal of the Historians of
Netherlandish ArtHis publications range widely on German and
Netherlandish art from 1400 to 1700. These include:
Nuremberg, A Renaissance City, 1500-1618 (Austin, 1983)
German Sculpture of the Later Renaissance, c. 1520-1580: Art in an
Age of Uncertainty (Princeton, 1994)
Sensuous Worship: Jesuits and the Art of the Early Catholic
Reformation in Germany (Princeton, 2002)
The Northern Renaissance (London, 2004 with several reprints) and
published in a Greek translation in 2005
The Art of the Goldsmith in late Fifteenth-Century Germany: The
Kimbell Virgin and Her Bishop (New Haven, 2006)
Dürer (London, forthcoming 2012)
Editor, New Perspectives on the Art of Renaissance Nuremberg: Five
Essays (Austin, 1985)
Co-editor with Larry Silver, The Essential Dürer (Philadelphia,
2010; paperback 2011)
Introduction to Erwin Panofsky, The Life and Art of Albrecht Dürer
[Princeton Classic Edition] (Princeton, 2005).
