Spring 1990

Monday, January 29

4:15 p.m. Davison Art Center, Room 300

David Levine, Southern Connecticut State University

Peter Bruegel and Ironic Allusion to the Grand Tradition in Netherlandish Low-life Painting

Thursday, February 8

4:15 p.m. Davison Art Center, Room 100

Sheila ffolliott, George Mason University

The Imagery of Female Rule in Early Modern France: The Case of Catherine de’ Medici

Monday, February 19

4:15 p.m. Davison Art Center, Room 300

Philip Jacks, Yale University

Urbs and Civitas: the Origins of Rome in Renaissance Thought

Wednesday, February 28

4:15 p.m. Davison Art Center Dining Room

Faith Beasley, Dartmouth College

Rescripting Plausability: Lafayette’s



    La Princesse de Cleves

Wednesday, March 28

4:15 p.m. Davison Art Center, Room 300

Wendy Stedman Sheard, Visiting Scholar, Wesleyan

Giorgione’s Portrait Inventions around 1500: Transfixing the Viewer

Wednesday, April 4

4:15 p.m. Davison Art Center, Room 300

Patricia Emison, University of New Hampshire

The Singularity of Raphael’s “Lucretia”

Wednesday, April 11

4:15 p.m. Davison Art Center, Room 300

David Friedman, Massacusetts Institute of Technology

Reconstructing Early Renaissance Palaces

Monday, April 30

4:15 p.m. Davison Art Center Dining Room

James Boyden, Yale University

The Alba-Eboli Conflict Reconsidered: Factional Rivalries at the Court of Philip II

Wednesday, May 9

4:15 p.m. Davison Art Center Dining Room

Kevin Dunn, Yale University

Bacon’s



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