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Viva Caravaggio! Artist's influence explored in one-day conference

Viva Caravaggio! Artist's influence explored in one-day conference

Posted by mjs76 at Jan 12, 2011 10:48 AM |

The University of Leicester is teaming up with Bangor University and the Institute of Italian Studies for a one-day conference on the great Italian painter Caravaggio in London on 28 January.

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Hommage à Marcel Duchamp: The Wheel Turns art exhibition and preview

Hommage à Marcel Duchamp: The Wheel Turns art exhibition and preview

Posted by mjs76 at Jan 05, 2011 12:15 PM |

Fifty years ago, legendary French Dadaist Marcel Duchamp (he of urinal fame) attached the front wheel and forks of a bicycle to a kitchen stool and called it - tada! - ‘Bicycle Wheel’. Something similar is happening at Embrace Arts...

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Leicester academic contributes expertise to major portrait exhibition

Leicester academic contributes expertise to major portrait exhibition

Posted by mjs76 at Dec 21, 2010 09:35 AM |

Professor David Ekserdjian from our Department of History of Art and Film has contributed an essay to the catalogue of an important exhibition of European portraiture which opens in the USA next month.

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Some monumental science at Leicester

Some monumental science at Leicester

Posted by pt91 at Dec 02, 2010 04:40 PM |

Deep space meets art history in a new project that sees University scientists turn their hand to reconstructing tomb monuments.

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