The Schedule

Session 1

Giovanni Cariani’s ‘Woman Reclining in a Landscape’: The Bucolic Subverted

Carolyn Smyth, John Cabot

A Vessel to be Filled: Caravaggio’s ‘Conversion of St Paul’ in Santa Maria del Popolo

Michael Hill, National Art School, Sydney

Whiz King: Urination as Commemoration in Jean Lepautre’s Prints for Louis XIV

Mark de Vitis, University of Sydney

Session 2

Mary as Model for Trecento Mourning

Judith Steinhoff, University of Houston

Touching Visions: Mystics Interacting with the Christ Child and with Mary

Patricia Simons, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor

Mystic Eroticism and the ‘Madonna del Suffragio’

Christina Neilson, Oberlin College

Blake’s Petworth House ‘Last Judgment’ and Female Anatomy

Anthony Apesos, Lesley University

Session 3

The Long Goodbye: Resurrecting Rome’s Apostolic Past in ‘The Final Embrace of Saints Peter and Paul’

Barbara Wisch, State University of New York, College at Cortland

The Visual Transformations of St Anthony the Abbot

Charles Zika, University of Melbourne

Securing Heavenly Protection in Apocalyptic Times: a Series of Fresco Votives in the Oratory of San Giovanni Battista in Urbino.

Di Haskell, independent scholar

Session 4

“Pacem meam do vobis”: earthly suffering and celestial redemption in the Trecento fresco program by Vitale da Bologna at Pomposa Abbey

Catherine Blake, independent scholar

Dying to be Born Again: Death in the Florentine ‘Sacre Rappresentazioni’

Nerida Newbigin, University of Sydney

Lo Strascino’s ‘Lamento’ and the Visual Culture of the French Pox around 1500

John Gagne, University of Sydney

Session 5

The Beautiful Death of the Count of Orgaz – Andrés Núñez, El Greco and the Making of a Counter Reformation Saint

Karen McCluskey, University of Notre Dame, Sydney

On the Right Hand of Christ: Jean, the Beloved, in a London Crucifixion

Stephen Holford, independent scholar

David’s ‘St Roch’: Is this the End of Religious Art in the Age of Enlightenment?

Jennifer Milam, University of Newcastle