Titian's Transpositions: Drama and Metaphor in Compositional Transfer

Dr. Paul Joannides
Professor of the History of Art, Cambridge University

Tuesday, November 3, 2009
Hooper-Schaefer Fine Arts Building, Room 149
7:00 pm

Free and open to the public

Contact:
Dr. Heidi Hornik, Professor of Art History, Italian Renaissance and Baroque Art
heidi_hornik@baylor.edu

Speaker Information:
Dr. Chu has two doctoral degrees in art history, one from Columbia University, New York and one from Utrecht University in the Netherlands.

She has received numerous research and publication grants from such universally respected entities as the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, Princeton Institute for Advanced Study, Humanities Research Centre at Australian National University, and Netherlands Institute of Advanced Research at Wasenaar.

Dr. Chu is the author or co-author of a dozen books in art history, including:

• French Realism and the Dutch Masters (1974)
• Courbet in Perspective (1977)
• The Letters of Gustave Courbet (1992)
• The Popularization of Images: Visual Culture under the July Monarchy (1994)
• Twenty-First-Century Perspectives on Nineteenth-Century Art (2008) and
• Nineteenth-Century European Art (the textbook used for Baylor's 19th-Century European art course)

She has written dozens of articles on a vast range of 19th-century topics and has become especially well known as a scholar of the central painter of 19th-century French Realism, Gustave Courbet. She is the Managing Editor of the online journal, Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide and has served for 10 years as President of the Association of Historians of Nineteenth-Century Art.

Contacts:
Dodi Holland, Assistant Director, Allbritton Art Institute
254-710-1826;
dodi_holland@baylor.edu

Dr. Karen Pope, American and 19th-Century European Art
karen_pope@baylor.edu