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[Dean School of Arts and Aesthetics]

The School of Arts and Aesthetics, JNU and Max Mueller Bhavan, New Delhi
cordially invite you to a series of brief talks by

Gerhard Wolf/Hannah Baader/Barbara Wittmann

Sites, displacement and display of images: Padova 1378,  Mexico/Italy 1538, Paris 1860

at 6:30 pm on Monday, 8th January 2007
At Siddhartha Hall, Max Mueller Bhavan, 3 Kasturba Gandhi Marg 



Gerhard Wolf is Director of the Max Planck Institute's Art History Institute (Kunsthistoriches Institut) in Florence, Italy. His work focusses on aspects of art and visual culture in Italy, from late Antiquity to the Early Modern Period, including a historical anthropology of image and media. This presentation will focus on artistic exchange between Mexico and Italy in the 16th c.

Hannah Baader is a Fellow at the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florence, Max-Planck-Institute. Her earlier work on the significance of male friendship for Renaissance art is now followed by a study on premodern theories of perception. Her presentation will focus on the problem of the place of the images in christian art in the late medieval period.

Barbara Wittmann is research scholar at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin. She wrote her Ph.D. thesis on Edouard Manet's portraiture and is currently working on a book about the history of children's drawings. Her talk will deal with the development of modernist exhibition practices and its impact on impressionist painting.





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