Sixtieth A. W. Mellon Lectures: Part 5

THE SIXTIETH A. W. MELLON LECTURES IN THE FINE ARTS 2011   The Twelve Caesars: Images of Power from Ancient Rome to Salvador Dali Part 5, Dynasty: Collecting, Classifying, and Connoisseurship Mary Beard, University of Cambridge Sunday, May 1, 2011 2:00 p.m. East Building Auditorium Book signing follows. Screening: Dynasty: Collecting, Classifying, and Connoisseurship Thursday, May 5, 2011 12:00 p.m. East Building Auditorium In anticipation of high attendance, the six lectures in this series will be video recorded. A screening of the recording will be shown the Thursday after each lecture in the East Building Auditorium at 12:00 p.m. May 8 Rough Work? Emperors Defaced and Destroyed www.nga.gov/programs/lectures/#mellon60 (Lectures) www.nga.gov/casva/pdf/beard_lecturecard.pdf (Announcement PDF 78KB) www.nga.gov/programs/abstracts/beard.shtm (Recommended Reading) Mary Beard is professor of classics, University of Cambridge, and fellow of Newnham College, where she has taught for the last 25 years. She has written numerous books on the ancient world, which have been translated into more than a dozen languages. In 2008, Pompeii: The Life of a Roman Town (published by Harvard University Press under the title The Fires of Vesuvius: Pompeii Lost and Found) received the Wolfson History Prize. Previous books include The Roman Triumph (2007), Classical Art: From Greece to Rome (with John Henderson, 2001), The Parthenon (2002, rev. ed. 2010), and The Colosseum (2005), the last two part of a series on wonders of the world. Her many articles range in topic from the social and cultural life of ancient Greece and Rome to the Victorian understanding of antiquity. Beard is classics editor of the Times Literary Supplement and writes a blog, A Don's Life, a selection of which has been published in book form. She is also a regular advisor and contributor to radio and television programs on the ancient world. She is currently co–principal investigator for the Leverhulme Project "Abandoning the Past in Victorian Britain." Beard's academic achievement has been acknowledged with election to fellow of the British Academy (2010) and the Society of Antiquaries (2007), and of the Archaeological Institute of America (2009), which made her corresponding member. She has delivered named lectures around the world. In 2008 Beard was Sather Professor at the University of California, Berkeley, where she gave a series of lectures on Roman laughter, one of her current research interests. The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts were established in 1949 to bring to the people of the United States the results of the best contemporary thought and scholarship bearing upon the subject of the fine arts. Events are free and open to the public. Seating is available on a first-come, first-seated basis. Registration is not required. For more information visit www.nga.gov/casva Image: Italian dish showing Julius Caesar in his triumphal chariot (detail), 16th century. The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge

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