Classical Art Society

Lecture: Graecia Capta—Athens in the Roman Period

Thursday, April 10, 2014
6:00PM–7:00PM
7:00PM

 Relief of a Fallen Warrior from the Shield of the Athena Parthenos, 2nd century A.D., copy of the 5th-century B.C. Greek original by Phidias. Roman. Gift of Alfred E. Hamill.

Lecture: Building Identity in the Morea—Architecture and Cross-Cultural Interaction in Medieval Greece

Thursday, March 20, 2014
6:00PM–7:00PM
7:00PM

Byzantine, Greece, Phaneromenis. Church of the Paliomonastero, detail of doorway to the naos (nave), 13th century.

Lecture: Gender & Sexuality in Ancient Near Eastern Art

Thursday, February 20, 2014
6:00PM–7:00PM
7:00PM

Proto-Elamite or Mesopotamian. Statuette of a Striding Figure, 3000-2800 B.C. Anonymous Loan.

Lecture: Ravenna—Justinian's Capital in the West and Its Dazzling, Exquisite Mosaics

Thursday, May 15, 2014
6:00PM–7:00PM
7:00PM

Byzantine. Apse mosaic detail with the Emperor Justinian I, c. 546-58. Ravenna, Italy Church of San Vitale. Photo: ARTstor.

Lecture: Roman Bronze Statues—What Do We Know About Them?

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

Hellenistic or Roman, Eastern Mediterranean. Statue of Young Dionysos, 100 b.c.–a.d. 100. Anonymous loan. Photography by Richard Valencia.

Lecture: The Influence of Greek Sculpture on American Gravestones

Thursday, October 24, 2013
6:00PM–7:00PM
7:00PM

James Earl Frazer, Greek Revival Tomb Marker for President William Howard Taft, Arlington National Cemetery, 1932.

Lecture: Dragons of the North—The World of the Viking Longships

Thursday, September 26, 2013
6:00PM–7:00PM
7:00PM

Viking ship at World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893. © ARTstor.

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

Thursday, August 22, 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: 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.

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