Lecture

"Totalitarian Pleasures: Ideology and the Urban Streetscape under Mussolini, Hitler, and Stalin."

Sponsored by Friday, January 16, 2009

12:00 p.m. –1:30 p.m.

Department of History Seminar Room—DM 370 The Miami--Florida European Union Center of Excellence Dr. John Beldon Scott & The European Studies Professor, Art History Program Elizabeth M. Stanley Professor of the Arts School of Art & Art History & University of Iowa The Department of John Beldon Scott received the B.A. from Indiana University (1968) and History M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Rutgers University (1975, 1982). His field of Brown Bag Series teaching and research is the art and architecture of early modern Italy. He is the author of Images of Nepotism: The Painted Ceilings of Palazzo Bar- & berini (Princeton, 1991) and Architecture for the Shroud: Relic and Ritual in DOHGSA Turin (Chicago, 2003). His other publications include studies of Borromini, Department of History Graduate Guarini, Pietro da Cortona, Annibale Carracci, Bernini, the patronage of the Student Association Barberini family, and urbanism in early modern Turin. His teaching and re- search interests also embrace the social history of art and interactions be- tween architecture and ritual. He has been a fellow at the American Acad- & emy in Rome, the National Humanities Center, the Institute for Advanced The Wolfsonian Study, and the Stanford Humanities Center. He has served on the Board of Directors of the Society of Architectural Historians (1997-2000). He is cur- rently preparing a study of urbanism and ritual in totalitarian regimes. In January 2009, he will be a fellow at the Wolfsonian-FIU.

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