Time and location
Friday, November 2, 2007, 1:00 to 4:00pm
Rooms C201/202
The Graduate School and University Center, City University of New York
365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10016
(between 34th and 35th Streets)
Program
Welcome: Barbara G. Lane, Professor of Art History, Queens College and The Graduate Center, City University of New York
Moderator: Christopher D.M. Atkins, Assistant Professor of Art History, Queens College, City University of New York
Speakers:
Walter A. Liedtke, Curator of European Paintings, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Introduction: Dutch Paintings in the Age of Rembrandt in The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Christopher D.M. Atkins
Frans Hals’s Modernity
Catherine E. Scallen, Associate Professor of Art History, Case Western Reserve University
America’s Rembrandt
H. Perry Chapman, Professor of Art History, University of Delaware
Romancing the painting: Bruegel, Vermeer, and art history fiction
Respondent: Mariét Westermann, Judy and Michael Steinhardt Director and Professor of Fine Arts, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, and Vice Chancellor, New York University
A reception will follow in the Art History Department Student Lounge, Room 3408
This symposium is sponsored by the Ph.D. Program in Art History and the Renaissance Studies Program at The Graduate Center, and funded by the John Rewald Endowment, the Leonard J. Slatkes Symposium Fund, and The Center for the Humanities at The Graduate Center.
Admission to the Symposium is free, but space is limited. For reservations please contact Rosemary Ramsey (rramsey@gc.cuny.edu). Unreserved seating cannot be guaranteed.
Symposium Coordinators: Christopher D.M. Atkins and Barbara G. Lane