VANCOUVER
22 October 2015, 5:00PM - 7:30PM, UBC Robson Square, room C225, 800 Robson Street, Vancouver BC V6Z 3B7, map
Program
Angela Vanhaelen, McGill University, and Bronwen Wilson, UCLA
Opening Remarks
Image: Willem Janszon Blaeu - Charles Hubert Jaillots, Map of America (etching), 122 x 172 cm, Paris, 1669. Bologna, Museo di Palazzo Poggi. In Il Viaggio: Mito e Scienza (Palazzo Poggi). Bologna, Bononia University Press, 2007, p. 67.
Stuart Lingo, University of Washington
Johannes Stradanus’ Discovery of America and the Conundrum of the New World Nude
Image: Johannes Stradanus, Discovery of America, drawing (pen and brown ink and wash, with white heightening, over black chalk), c. 1587-1589, 19 x 27 cm. © Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gift of the Estate of James Hazen Hyde, 1959.
Cristelle Baskins, Tufts University
Tribute of Nations
Image: Giorgio Vasari, Tribute of the Nations to Paul III (fresco), 1546, Palazzo della Cancellaria, Rome
Erin Campbell, University of Victoria
Andrea Brustolon's Porcelain Stand with Hercules, Hydra, and Cerberus Revisited
Image: Andrea Brustolon, Porcelain Stand with Hercules, Hydra and Cerberus (boxwood and ebony), c. 1700, height 200 cm. Museo del Settecento Veneziano, Ca' Rezzonico, Venice.
Lyle Massey, University of California, Irvine
Wasteland and Oases: The Desert in Renaissance Imagination
Walter S. Melion, Emory University
Ut pictura lex: Jan David, S.J., on Natural Law and the Global Reach of Christian Images
