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Viva Caravaggio! Artist's influence explored in one-day conference
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.
Hommage à Marcel Duchamp: The Wheel Turns art exhibition and preview
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...
Leicester academic contributes expertise to major portrait exhibition
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.
Some monumental science at Leicester
Deep space meets art history in a new project that sees University scientists turn their hand to reconstructing tomb monuments.