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27 September, Saturday, 1:30-5:00 P.M.
Arthur M. Loew Auditorium
Program
Welcome and opening remarks
Brian Kennedy, Director, Hood Museum of Art
The conception, execution and interpretation of The sculpture gallery
T. Barton Thurber, Curator of European Art, Hood Museum of Art
“Imitation-Greek articles of virtue”: commerce and the classics in high-Victorian England
Alice Jenkins, Senior Lecturer in English, University of Glasgow
Respondent
Angela Rosenthal, Associate Professor, Department of Art History, Dartmouth College
Break
“Painting breathing life into sculpture”: bringing archeology and antiquity to life
Genevieve Liveley, Lecturer of Classics and Ancient History, University of Bristol
Antiquity and the reanimation of sculpture in late-Victorian Britain
David J. Getsy, Goldabelle McComb Finn Distinguished Associate Professor of Art History, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Respondent
Pramit Chaudhuri, Assistant Professor, Department of Classics, Dartmouth College
Support
The Leslie Center for the Humanities in collaboration with the Hood Museum of Art
Related event
Exhibition Alma-Tadema and antiquity: imagining classical sculpture in late-nineteenth-century Britain, Hanover, New Hampshire (Hood Museum of Art), 28 June-28 September 2008