Description
The gathering was convened in honour of art historian Jack M. Greenstein who recently retired from the University of California San Diego where he has taught since 1982. Greenstein is author of Mantegna and Painting as Historical Narrative (University of Chicago Press, 1992) and The Creation of Eve and Renaissance Naturalism: Visual Theology and Artistic Invention (Cambridge University Press, 2016) as well as articles on Leon Battista Alberti, Leonardo da Vinci’s La Gioconda, Ambrogio Lorenzetti’s Sala della Pace Frescoes, Michelangelo’s Last Judgment, temporalities of the face in Renaissance portrait painting, time in pictorial narrative, composition and perspective in Renaissance art theory, and the concept of iconicity in Aristotle and in modern semiotics. He is recipient of fellowships from the American Philosophical Society and the National Endowment for the Humanities. In 1992-93, he was a full-term member of the School of History Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey.| Period | 30 Apr 2022 |
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| Event type | Meeting |
| Location | San Diego, United States, CaliforniaShow on map |
| Degree of Recognition | International |
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‘I did not Say or Mean ‘Warning’: Icons and Memory through the Museum Guide in Chiara Fumai's Premio Furla Performance at the Fondazione Querini Stampalia
Research output: Conference Papers › RGC 33 - Other conference paper