December 2017
17th International Conference of Association RIdIM
Music and Dance in Visual Culture Music
Library of Greece “Lilian Voudouri” – The Friends of Music Society, Athens, Greece, 5-7 October 2017
Keynote Lecture 1
Conventions, Formulae, and Observable Reality in Ancient Musical Imaginary
Alexandra Goulaki Voutira, Αριστοτέλειο Πανεπιστήμιο της Θεσσαλονίκης (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)
http://www.blod.gr/lectures/Pages/viewlecture.aspx?LectureID=3738
With courtesy of http://www.blod.gr (last accessed: 12.12.2017)
Keynote Lecture 2
Song, Sentiment, Grief, and Remembrance (Sounds and Sights from the American Civil War)
Richard D. Leppert, University of Minnesota
http://www.blod.gr/lectures/Pages/viewlecture.aspx?LectureID=3739
With courtesy of http://www.blod.gr (last accessed: 12.12.2017)
Oktober – November 2017
Elizabeth Sears (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor), First Contact: Panofsky meets Warburg. Lecture hold as part of the Warburg Institute’s celebration of the 150th anniversary of the birth of Aby Warburg, 2016.
Published on Youtube, 04.11.2016 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_n4p8_r5Oo).
August – September 2017
George T.M. Shackelford, Director of Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas, and the author of “Degas: The Dancers” (1994) and “Degas and the Nude” (2011), presents a lecture on “Degas: Dance, Music, and Time” as part of the Master Series of Toledo Museum of Art.
Published on YouTube, 24.12.2015 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUnETLCU0Wk).
July 2017
Matthias Wivel, curator of 16th-century Italian Paintings at the National Gallery London, shares his insights about Titian’s “Bacchus and Ariadne” that was inspired by Ovid.
See also the RIdIM-Database-Record.
Published on YouTube, 19.02.2016 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqsVfQrStes).
May – June 2017
Introduction lecture by Dr. Beth Harris and Dr. Steven Zucker on the Ghent Altarpiece, a very large and highly complex fifteenth-century altarpiece (completed in 1432) in Saint Bavo Cathedra, Ghent, Belgium. The alterpiece is attributed to the brothers Hubert (c. 1385-90-1426) and Jan van Eyck (before c. 1390-1441).
See also the RIdIM-Database-Record and the online essay “Van Eyck, The Ghent Altarpiece” by Sally Hickson.
Published on YouTube, 04.11.2013 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udgNvPpDb2I)
Published on YouTube, 10.11.2013 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVhwinCiELI).
April 2017
John Walsh, Jan Steen’s Card Players and Dutch Genre Painting, Yale University Art Gallery Lecture, 30 January 2015.
Published on YouTube, 02.02.2015 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3kRIdCWVWs).
March 2017
Hans Belting: “An Anthropology of Images or Iconology” (Part 2), lecture presented at the International Conference “Image and Contemporaneity”, 7 – 8.11.2013, organized by the Institute of Contemporary Art – Sofia and the Goethe-Institut in Sofia in partnership with the Cultural Center of Sofia University.
Published on YouTube on 10.06.2015 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Sbk_B66jRk).
February 2017
Hans Belting: “An Anthropology of Images or Iconology” (Part 1), lecture presented at the International Conference “Image and Contemporaneity”, 7 – 8.11.2013, organized by the Institute of Contemporary Art – Sofia and the Goethe-Institut in Sofia in partnership with the Cultural Center of Sofia University.
Published on YouTube on 10.06.2015 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7LWGKQXOxM).
January 2017
“The Value of Error in the History of Art”. Erwin Panofsky lecturing at UCLA, 11 September 1967. From the archives of the UCLA Communications Studies Department. Digitized 2013.
Published on YouTube on 12.05.2014 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVstFr_F0oA).
November – December 2016
“What do Pictures Want?” lecture by William J. Thomas Mitchell at Museum of Contemporary Art in Krakow MOCAK, 25 October 2013.
Published on YouTube on 04.11.2013 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHe9pWSUIjg).
Summer 2016 (Aug – Oct 2016)
Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951) on painting. Visualized version of an Interview with Arnold Schoenberg by Halsey Stevens, Museum Talk, 1949.
Published on YouTube on 21.03.2012 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xD4UclGexk4).
July 2016
Lecture of Georgia Cowart, Professor, Department of Music, Case Western Reserve University, on the exhibition “Watteau, Music, and Theatre”, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 22 Sept – 29 Nov 2006.
Published on YouTube on 01.12.2009 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=po4r1FbLfJA).
June 2016
Video produced as part of the cooperation project between the Museo Nacional del Prado (Madrid) and the Musical Iconography Study Group of Universidad Complutense de Madrid, dealing with visual source material related to music and dance in the Prado Museum. The video refers to the music as presented in the canvas: Jan Brueghel the Elder and Workshop of Peter Paul Rubens, The Sense of Hearing, 1618, oil on panel, 64.0 x 109.5 cm. Madrid: Museo del Prado (inv.-no.: P01395).
Published on YouTube on 21.06.2012 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V76QNUnR2ZM).
May 2016
Computer-based analysis of Vermeer’s The Music Lesson (National Gallery, Washington D.C).
Published on YouTube on 30.05.2014 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmugrV7vM2o).
April 2016
William John Thomas Mitchell (born 1942), the eminent scholar and Gaylord Donnelley Distinguished Service Professor of English and Art History at the University of Chicago, discusses Iconology and Visual Culture.
Published on YouTube on 08.07.2013 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Uoml_itvtY).
March 2016
Conversation about Hans Holbein The Younger, “The Ambassadors,” 1533, oil on wood, 206.0 x 209.0 cm. London: National Gallery.
Published on YouTube on 02.04.2012 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQZUIGzinZA).