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Ludden Lecture 2015: Jaś Elsner

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April 14, 2015
6:00PM - 7:00PM
Jennings Hall 001

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Add to Calendar 2015-04-14 18:00:00 2015-04-14 19:00:00 Ludden Lecture 2015: Jaś Elsner Ludden Lecture 2015: Jaś Elsner "Visual Ontologies: Style, Archaism and the Construction of the Sacred in the Western Tradition"   Lecture Description: This lecture will examine the ways that sacred images within the West-ern tradition have been framed by other images, often in different styles, in order to establish their aura. The talk will move from ancient Greece and Rome via the Middle Ages in Byzantium and the West to the Counter Reformation. Bio: Jaś Elsner is Humfrey Payne Senior Research Fellow in Classical Archaeology and Art at Corpus Christi College Oxford and a regular Visiting Professor of Art and Religion in both the Divinity School and the His-tory of Art Department at the University of Chicago. He has held visiting scholar positions at the British School at Rome, the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris, the Institute for the Humanities at the University of Michigan, UCLA, New York University’s Institute of Fine Arts, and Princeton University. His main area of interest is the art of the Roman empire, broadly conceived to include late antiquity and the early middle ages, including Byzantium as well as the pre-Christian Classical world. The main focus of his work has been on the way art was viewed in antiquity—which has in turn led to an interest in all kinds of reception from ritual and pilgrimage in the case of religious art to ekphrasis and other form of literary description to the collecting and display of art as well as its modern historiography and receptions. His books include Roman Eyes: Visuality and Subjectivity in Art and Text (Princeton, 2007), Imperial Rome and Christian Triumph: The Art of the Roman Empire A.D. 100-450 (Oxford, 1998), Art and the Roman Viewer: The Transformation of Art from the Pagan World to Christianity (Cambridge, 1995), and Pilgrimage Past and Present: Sacred Travel and Sacred Space in the World Religions (Harvard, 1995), which he jointly authored with Simon Coleman. Professor Elsner has also co-edited several important volumes, among them The Cultures of Collecting (Reaktion Books/Harvard, 1994), with Roger Cardinal; and Pilgrimage in Greco-Roman and Early Christian Antiquity: Seeing the Gods (Oxford, 2005), with Ian Rutherford. Event Details and Registration:  Please note that this will take place on April 14, 2015 at 6:00PM Eastern Standard Time (EST) in 0001 Jennings Hall. Reception to follow in 214 Pomerene Hall. This event is free and open to the public. Jennings Hall 001 Department of History of Art historyofart@osu.edu America/New_York public

Ludden Lecture 2015: Jaś Elsner

"Visual Ontologies: Style, Archaism and the Construction of the Sacred in the Western Tradition"

 

Lecture Description:

This lecture will examine the ways that sacred images within the West-ern tradition have been framed by other images, often in different styles, in order to establish their aura. The talk will move from ancient Greece and Rome via the Middle Ages in Byzantium and the West to the Counter Reformation.

Bio:

Jaś Elsner is Humfrey Payne Senior Research Fellow in Classical Archaeology and Art at Corpus Christi College Oxford and a regular Visiting Professor of Art and Religion in both the Divinity School and the His-tory of Art Department at the University of Chicago. He has held visiting scholar positions at the British School at Rome, the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris, the Institute for the Humanities at the University of Michigan, UCLA, New York University’s Institute of Fine Arts, and Princeton University. His main area of interest is the art of the Roman empire, broadly conceived to include late antiquity and the early middle ages, including Byzantium as well as the pre-Christian Classical world. The main focus of his work has been on the way art was viewed in antiquity—which has in turn led to an interest in all kinds of reception from ritual and pilgrimage in the case of religious art to ekphrasis and other form of literary description to the collecting and display of art as well as its modern historiography and receptions. His books include Roman Eyes: Visuality and Subjectivity in Art and Text (Princeton, 2007), Imperial Rome and Christian Triumph: The Art of the Roman Empire A.D. 100-450 (Oxford, 1998), Art and the Roman Viewer: The Transformation of Art from the Pagan World to Christianity (Cambridge, 1995), and Pilgrimage Past and Present: Sacred Travel and Sacred Space in the World Religions (Harvard, 1995), which he jointly authored with Simon Coleman. Professor Elsner has also co-edited several important volumes, among them The Cultures of Collecting (Reaktion Books/Harvard, 1994), with Roger Cardinal; and Pilgrimage in Greco-Roman and Early Christian Antiquity: Seeing the Gods (Oxford, 2005), with Ian Rutherford.

Event Details and Registration: 

Please note that this will take place on April 14, 2015 at 6:00PM Eastern Standard Time (EST) in 0001 Jennings Hall.

Reception to follow in 214 Pomerene Hall. This event is free and open to the public.

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