Picturing Paradise in 19Th Century Art (Washington, 2 Feb 16)

Picturing Paradise in 19th Century Art (Washington, 2 Feb 16)

Washington, D.C., Feb 02, 2016 christianityhistoryart.org/index.html

Linda Stratford, Asbury University

Picturing Paradise in 19th Century British and American Art: Past, Lost, Regained A Symposium for the Association of Scholars of Christianity in the History of Art (ASCHA) The Henry Luce III Center for the Arts and Religion Wesley Theological Seminary Elderdice Hall/Kresge Academic Bldg. 4500 Massachusetts Avenue Washington, D.C. metro: Tenleytown (may take American U shuttle from there to campus)

PROGRAMME

SESSION I

1:15-2:45 pm Naomi Billingsley, University of Manchester / King’s College London Re-viewing Blake’s “Paradise Regained”

Alan Wallach, Ralph H. Wark Professor of Art and Art History and Professor of American Studies Emeritus The College of William and Mary The Politics of Paradise

Linda J. Docherty, Bowdoin College Translating Dante: Isabella Stewart Gardner’s Museum as Paradiso

2:45-3:00 pm Break

3:00-4:00 pm Keynote Address

Roger Crum, Professor of Art History University of Dayton Paradise Lost, Eden Remade, and Italy Brought Home as Substance, Sign, and Souvenir

4:00-4:15 pm Break

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SESSION II

4:15-5:45 pm Kathleen Stuart, Curator of the Berger Collection Denver Art Museum Samuel Palmer, John Martin, and John Sell Cotman: Visions of Paradise in the Eye of the Behold- er?

Chris Coltrin, Assistant Professor of Art Shepherd University Paradise City: The Representation of an Urban Heaven in the Art of John Martin

Elissa Yukiko Weichbrodt, Assistant Professor of Art and Art History Covenant College Found or Recovered: Competing Views of Paradise in Late Nineteenth Century Hawaiian Landscape Painting

Early registration by January 15: $25 After January 15 and day of event: $35 Students with valid I.D.: $15

Reference: CONF: Picturing Paradise in 19th Century Art (Washington, 2 Feb 16). In: ArtHist.net, Jan 9, 2016 (accessed Sep 25, 2021), .

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