SUMMER PROGRAMME – [Newsletter 2012 Apr-Jun]

16 June – Historic Waterford – Summer Day Trip

30 May – Diego Francesco Carlone and Ticinese stucco a lecture by Professor Andrea Spiriti (University of Como/Varese) to celebrate the launch of Decorative plasterwork in Ireland & Europe: ornament and the early modern interior, Christine Casey & Conor Lucey (eds)

26 May – AGM Lecture – Embodying Memory: Performance and the Irish Oral Tradition in the Work of Alanna O’Kelly  a lecture by Kate Antosik Parsons

[late] April – Annual Members’ Trip.  ITALY – on the trail of late Medieval & Renaissance fresco cycles

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RECENT EVENTS

IAAH/Artefact Annual Study Day @ the Irish Museum of Modern Art

Associations promoting art in the public sphere: new exhibiting spaces in the Enlightenment and Romanticism – a lecture by J. Pedro Lorente, University of Zaragoza

UCD Art Collection in Belfield House & highlights of the UCD Sculpture Trail

Limerick City Gallery of Art & highlights of the art collection of the University of Limerick

Members’ Christmas Lecture & Party – ‘Vermeer & the lure of Dutch genre painting’ a lecture by Dr Adriaan Waiboer, Curator of Northern European Art, NGI

‘Tintoretto’s Susanna and the Elders: Just a bit of fun?’ a lecture by Dr Audrey Nicholls

‘Precious Things’ a lecture by Rudolf Heltzel, Goldsmith

‘And now for something completely different…’ a lecture by Professor Michael Ryan, former Director of the Chester Beatty Library

Liverpool Trip  – a trip that took in visits to the Walker Art Gallery, Tate Liverpool, Port Sunlight Village, the Lady Lever Art Gallery and Sudley House, as well as architectural highlights like St George’s Hall, the Three Graces on Liverpool’s historic waterfront, and Albert Dock.  In addition members braved the autumnal elements on a windswept Crosby Beach to see Anthony Gormley’s Another Place.