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Wednesday, May 02, 2012
Two Research Seminars by Prof. Salvatore Settis (Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa)
Drawing from the Antique, 16th to 17th centuries & “Senza far disegno”: Caravaggio and the Antique
Convenor Dr Claudia Bolgia
Salvatore Settis has been Director of the Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles (1994-1999) and of the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa (1999-2010), where he also taught Classical Archaeology. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, of the Institut de France, of the Istituto Veneto, and of the Academies of Sciences in Berlin, Munich, Brussells, and Turin. He has also been Chair of Italy’s High Council for Cultural Heritage and Landscape. His research interests are many and varied, including Ancient, Medieval and Renaissance Art, Cultural Heritage and Cultural Policies. Among his books: Giorgione’s Tempest. Interpreting the Hidden Subject, Cambridge 1990; La Colonna Traiana, Turin 1988; Laocoonte. Fama e stile, Rome 1999; The Future of the Classical, Oxford 2006; Battaglie senza eroi. I beni culturali fra istituzioni e profitto, Milan 2005; Paesaggio, Costituzione, cemento. La battaglia per l’ambiente contro il degrado civile, Turin 2010. He was co-editor of The Classical Tradition, Harvard University Press 2010.
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Date: Wednesday, May 02, 2012
Time: 3.00-5.30pm
Venue: Common Room, History of Art, Minto House, 20 Chambers Street, Edinburgh
Organized by: Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities - University of Edinburgh
In collaboration with: Italian Cultural Institute
Free event
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