"Art for art's sake is an empty phrase. Art for the sake of the true, art for the sake of the good and the beautiful, that is the faith I am searching for."
— George Sand
Janson-La Palme Lecture Series
The Janson-La Palme Distinguished Lecture in European Art History, established by Washington College Professor Emeritus Robert J. H. Janson-La Palme and his wife, Bayly, brings internationally known scholars on European art to campus for public lectures and presentations.
Forthcoming
2009
Peter Humfrey, Department of Art History, St. Andrews University, Scotland, topic to be announced.
Previous Lectures in the Series
2008
"Composition and Decomposition in Girodet's 'Revolt of Cairo,'" a lecture by Thomas Crow, Rosalie Solow Professor of Modern Art History, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, Thursday, April 17, 4:30 p.m., in the College's Casey Academic Center Forum.
2007
"Ovid's Metamorphoses and the History of Art," a lecture by Paul Barolsky, Commonwealth Professor of Art History, University of Virginia, Thursday, April 12, 4:30 p.m., at Washington College's Casey Academic Center Forum.
2006
"Unbridled Passions: Animals in Romantic Art," a lecture by Robert Rosenblum, Henry Ittleson, Jr., Professor of Modern European Art, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, and Stephen and Nan Swid Curator of Twentieth-Century Art, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Thursday, March 30, 2006, at 4:30 p.m., in the College's Casey Acedemic Center Forum.
2005
"The Spanish Palace as Mirror of Spanish History," a lecture by Jonathan Brown, Carroll and Milton Petrie Professor of Fine Arts, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, Thursday, March 31, at 4:30 p.m., in the College's Casey Academic Center Forum.
2004
"Painting and the Third Dimension in Italian Renaissance Art," a lectuure by Nicholas Penny, Senior Curator of Sculpture and Decorative Arts at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., on Wednesday, March 24, at 4:30 p.m., in the College's Casey Academic Center Forum.
Previous Lectures in the Series
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