Slade Lectures: The Material Presence of Absent Antiquities: Collecting Excessive Objects and the Revival of the Past

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The Slade Lectures 2017

 

18 Jan - 'A Neo-Classical Dream and an Archaeologist's Nightmare': Piranesi's Colossal Candelabra in the Ashmolean Museum and the Louvre

25 Jan - Candelabra in Antiquity, their Rediscovery and Reception

01 Feb - Making Antiquity Materially Present: Plaster Cast Collections, Piranesi's Vasi, Candelabri, Cippi and the Museo Borgiano

08 Feb - Candelabra, Totems and other Ritual Objects  15 Feb Piranesi in the Valley of the Uncanny (1). Excessive Objects and the Revival of Antiquity

22 Feb - 'At Last I am in Conversation with Things'. Wilhelm and Caroline von Humboldt, and the 6th Duke of Devonshire on the Agency of Graeco-Roman Artefacts

01 Mar - Piranesi in the Valley of the Uncanny (2). Excessive Objects, Animation and Intentionality

08 Mar - 'At Rome the Love of Marble Possesses Most People like a New Sense': the Material Turn, 1770-1820