Since 1986, the Kresge Art Museum Medieval Symposium has sponsored a series of presentations by important international scholars in medieval studies. Art into Life offers a selection of the presentations all focusing on medieval book production, fourteenth-century manuscripts, a…
These murals were executed during a twenty-year period when internal tensions divided the friars themselves and when the Order was confronted by a radical change of papal policy toward its defining vow of poverty. The Order had amassed great wealth and built ostentatious churche…
"This probing analysis of three works by Giotto and the patrons who commissioned them goes far beyond the clichés of Giotto as the founding figure of Western painting. It traces the interactions between Franciscan friars and powerful bankers, illuminating the complex interplay b…
List of tables and graphs -- Some representative texts -- Introduction -- Civic patronage in the late Republic -- Civic patronage and Augustus -- Civic patronage in the Principate -- Civic patronage in the Verrines -- Civic patronage in Roman law -- Civic patronage in the epigra…
"In the face of unparalleled growth and a truly global audience, the popularity of contemporary art has clearly become a double-edged affair. Today, an unprecedented number of museums, galleries, biennial-style exhibitions, and art fairs display new work in all its variety, whil…
Introduzione; Walter Wimmel e i rischi del 'pancallimachismo'; L'età flavia: immagini tradizionali, nuove funzioni; 1 Callimaco a Tomi. Fonti delle Muse e lima poetica nell'elegia ovidiana dell'esilio; Haustus ispiratore: dialogo coi destinatari e crisi dell'ingenium; Lima poeti…
Here is a comprehensive guide to everything artists and arts groups need to know about supporting themselves through grants and special projects.
"Published on the fifth anniversary of the BP Deepwater Horizon disaster, Artwash is an intervention into the unsavoury role of the Big Oil company's sponsorship of the arts in Britain. Based on a high profile campaign, Mel Evans targets Chevron, ExxonMobil, BP and Shell's colla…
"Published on the fifth anniversary of the BP Deepwater Horizon disaster, Artwash is an intervention into the unsavoury role of the Big Oil company's sponsorship of the arts in Britain. Based on a high profile campaign, Mel Evans targets Chevron, ExxonMobil, BP and Shell's colla…
"Published on the fifth anniversary of the BP Deepwater Horizon disaster, Artwash is an intervention into the unsavoury role of the Big Oil company's sponsorship of the arts in Britain. Based on a high profile campaign, Mel Evans targets Chevron, ExxonMobil, BP and Shell's colla…