Inscription and the Horizon in Melchior Lorck's View of Constantinople - A talk by Bronwen Wilson February 19, 2010

Bronwen Wilson is a professor of Art History at the University of British Colombia. She received her PhD in Art History in 1999 from Northwestern University in Evanston Illinois. She was a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) postdoctoral fellow at UBC from 1999-2000 before taking up a position at McGill University where she taught in the Department of Art History and Communication Studies until 2007.

Melchior Lorck (1526/1527-after 1583) was a renaissance painter, draughtsman, and printmaker of Danish-German origin. He produced the most thorough visual record of the life and customs of Turkey in the 16th century, to this day a unique source. He was also the first Danish artist of whom a substantial biography is reconstructable and a substantial body of artworks is attributable.

Professor Wilson's first book, The World in Venice: print, the city, and early modern identity(University of Toronto Press, 2005; Roland H. Bainton prize for Art History, 2006), explores the ways in which new forms and uses of print - maps, costume, events, and portraits - contributed to changes in how identities accrued to individuals. She has recently completed a second book manuscript: Facing the End of the Renaissance: portraits, physiognomy, and naturalism in Northern Italy (1500-1620) and published a volume, co-edited with Paul Yachnin, Making Publics in early modern Europe: people, things and forms of knowledge (2009).

PAPERS WILL CIRCULATE IN ADVANCE. Readings for each session will be available as .pdf files on the TEMS website http://tems.umn.edu/, and in hard copy in Heller Hall 338 and Folwell Hall 255.

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