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A detail from "The Arnolfini Portrait" by Jan van Eyck. The National Gallery in London.
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Deaths, murders and mirrors - Theme Seminar on Iconography

Culture and languages

Do you want to know more about iconography? Welcome to our Medieval Committee's seminar on iconography.

Lecture,
Seminar
Date
4 Apr 2024
Time
14:15 - 17:00
Location
Room J309, Faculty of Humanities, 6 Renströmsgatan, Gothenburg

Good to know
There is an opportunity to attend the seminar via Zoom. Please contact Auður Magnúsdóttir (audur.magnusdottir@history.gu.se) for the link.

Program

Miriam Gill: "Early images of the Three Living and Three Dead in England: theme and variations" 

Ellie Pridgeon: "Function and Location: Three Living and Three Dead Wall Paintings in English Churches"

 Paus
 

Carina Jacobsson: "The murders in the cathedral, the confraternity of the Rosary and the Virgin Mary altarpiece in Strängnäs" 

Alexandra Fried: "Mirror, mirror on the wall-function and meaning of the mirror in 15th Century Netherlandish painting"

About the lecturers

Miriam Gill is a panel tutor for Institute of Continuing Education, Cambridge and Oxford University Department of Continuing Education and Attenborough Arts Centre, University of Leicester. She is a founder member of Leicester Vaughan College (CBS) and Pro Artium and a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London and the HIgher Education Academy. 

Ellie Pridgeon teaches at the University of Leicester, the University of Cambridge, the University of Oxford, Leicester Vaughan College, Pro Artium, and WEA.

Carina Jacobsson, is Associate Professor in History of Art, Senior lecturer and Excellent teacher at the Department of Art History at Uppsala University, Sweden.

Alexandra Fried, is Senior Lecturer in Art History at the University of Gothenburg

Mirror, mirror on the wall-function and meaning of the mirror in 15th Century Netherlandish painting

The seminar will be held in English. Public event. 

Welcome!