Roethke Festival 2011: The Renaissance Spirit
Theodore Roethke Humanities Festival 2011
The Renaissance Spirit
January 24–June 30
Skillman Library, Lass Gallery
Vedute di Venezia: Photographs by Ewa Monika Zebrowski
February 5–March 26
Williams Center GalleryRevisiting the Italian Renaissance: Painting and Sculpture from the Allentown Art Museum
Thursday, February 10, 4:15 p.m.
Skillman Library, Gendebien Room
Diane Cole Ahl, Rothkopf Professor of Art History
“This Splendid Noble Art”: Re-Viewing Fifteenth Century Painting in Italy
Tuesday, February 15, 12:15 p.m.
Williams Center for the Arts, room 108
Diane Cole Ahl
Gallery Talk: Revisiting the Italian Renaissance
Lunch provided at noon.
Thursday, February 17, 7:00 p.m.
Williams Center 108 and Gallery
J. Brooks Joyner, The Priscilla Payne Hurd President and CEO of the Allentown Art Museum and Diane Cole Ahl
Lecture and Reception
Joyner will speak about the Kress Collection and Ahl will speak about the exhibition.
A reception will follow.
Monday, February 28, 8:00 p.m.
Kirby Hall of Civil Rights, room 104
Professor Anthony Grafton, Princeton University
“Reading in the Renaissance”
Monday, March 7, 12:00 noon
Skillman Library, Gendebien Room
Ewa Monika Zebrowski
“Photographing Venice, a City in Peril”
Lunch will be provided.
Monday, March 7, 4:15 p.m.
Williams Center for the Arts, room 108
Professor Patricia Fortini Brown, Princeton University
“Empire of Fragments: Venice Beyond the Lagoon”
Wednesday, March 9, 4:15 p.m.
Williams Center for the Arts, room 108
Anthony Newcomb, Terrill Professor Emeritus of Music, University of California, Berkeley
“The Italian Madrigal and the Renaissance Court”
Wednesday, March 9, 7:00 p.m.
Williams Center for the Arts, room 108
Anthony Cummings, Anthony Newcomb, and Robert Wiemken“Musical Practices in the Court of Ferrara”
Wednesday, March 9, 8:00 p.m.
Williams Center for the Arts
Piffaro, King’s Noyse, and Ellen HargisMadrigals, Dances, and Fantasias from the Italian Renaissance: works by Carlo Gesualdo, Cipriano de Rore, and their contemporaries
Thursday, March 31, 8:00 p.m.
Kirby Hall of Civil Rights, room 104
John Monfasani, Professor of History, SUNY Albany
“Émigré Greek Scholars and the Italian Renaissance”
Saturday, April 16, 8:00 p.m.
Williams Center for the Arts
Venice Baroque, with Giuliano Carmignola
Antonio Vivaldi and his Circle