Classical Art Society

Lecture: Ariadne's Thread—Antiquity Reawakened in Modern Art

Thursday, April 4, 2013
6:00PM–7:00PM
7:00PM

Pablo Picasso. Nessus and Deianira. Clarence Buckingham Collection, 1965.783. 2013 © Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. 

Lecture: The Byzantine Art Treasures of Orthodox Monasteries from Mount Sinai to Meteora to the Holy Mount Athos and Beyond

Thursday, May 23, 2013
6:00PM–7:00PM
7:00PM

Byzantine, from the Monastery of Saint Catherine, Mount Sinai, Egypt. Apse Mosaic with The Transfiguration (detail), 549-64 A.D. ©ARTstor.

Lecture: Tradition Transformed—Late Roman and Byzantine Art

Thursday, February 21, 2013
6:00PM–7:00PM
7:00PM

Roman. Diptych Leaf with an Apotheosis, 402 A. D. Copyright: The Trustees of the British Museum.

Lecture: Penelope in Persepolis—The Power of Images to Stop War with an Archenemy

Thursday, March 14, 2013
6:00PM–7:00PM
7:00PM

Persian, Achaemenid. Gate of All Lands, Entrance to Palace of Xerxes at Persepolis, ca. 475 B.C. Persepolis, Iran. Image ©ARTStor.

Assembling Antiquity: Conservation of Ancient Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Art for the Jaharis Galleries

Thursday, January 17, 2013
6:00PM–7:00PM
7:00PM

Roman, from the House of the Man of Letters in Daphne, Antioch on the Orontes (modern Antakya, Turkey). Mosaic Panel Showing Fishes (detail), probably 3rd century A.D. Gift of Mr. Henry J. Patten. 

Lecture: LaunchPad—Interactivity and Ancient Art

Thursday, December 13, 2012
6:00PM–7:00PM
7:00PM

Roman. Portrait of Emperor Hadrian, 2nd century A.D. Katherine K. Adler Memorial Fund. 

Recasting the Past: The Mary and Michael Jaharis Galleries of Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Art

Thursday, November 15, 2012
6:00PM–7:00PM
7:00PM

Greco-Roman, Eastern Mediterranean. Dish, late 2nd or early 1st century B.C., detail. Katherine K. Adler Memorial Fund. Photo by Erika Dufour.

Lecture: Italy Before Rome—An Introduction to Etruscan Art

Thursday, October 25, 2012
6:00PM–7:00PM
7:00PM

Etruscan, probably, Vulci. Foot of Cista (Storage Box), early 5th century B.C. Katherine K. Adler Memorial Fund. 

The Delphic Oracle: Ancient Myths and Modern Science

Thursday, September 20, 2012
6:00PM–7:00PM
7:00PM

Joseph Pennell. The Treasury of Athens, Delphi, 1913. The Joseph Brooks Fair Collection. 

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