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The Horst Gerson Lectures

21 Titles

Lectures held in memory of Horst Gerson (1907-1978) at the University of Groningen.

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Horst Gerson Lecture 21

On the Afterlife of Things in Artworks: Doris Salcedo’s Atrabiliarios and Other Contact Relics: The Twenty-First Horst Gerson Lecture held on October 12, 2023

Monika Walker

Horst Gerson Lecture 20

Art History and Prehistoric Art: Rethinking their Relationship in the Light of New Observations: The Twentieth Horst Gerson Lecture held on October 4, 2019

Horst Bredekamp; Mitch Cohen

Horst Gerson Lecture 19

Everything or Nothing?: What do University Museums know? The Ninetheenth Horst Gerson Lecture, held on October 6, 2017

Ivan Gaskell

Horst Gerson Lecture 18

ISIS and the Threat to Our Cultural Heritage: What Can the World Do? A Five-Point Proposal: The Eighteenth Horst Gerson Lecture, held on October 8, 2015

James Cuno

Horst Gerson Lecture 17

Some discoveries of 1492: Eastern antiquities and Renaissance Europe: The Seventeenth Horst Gerson Lecture, held on November 14, 2013

Alexander Nagel

Horst Gerson Lecture 16

Eye, Memory, Hand: The Nineteenth-Century Debate about the Role of Visual Memory in the Creative Process: The Sixteenth Horst Gerson Lecture, held on November 10, 2011

Petra ten-Doesschate Chu

Horst Gerson Lecture 15

Jordaens, Psyche and the Abbot. Myth, decorum and Italian manners in seventeenth-century Antwerp: The Fifteenth Horst Gerson Lecture, held on November 12, 2009

Elizabeth McGrath

Horst Gerson Lecture 14

Portraits by the Artist as a Young Man: Parmigianino ca. 1524: The Fourteenth Horst Gerson Lecture, held on November 22, 2007

Patricia Lee Rubin

Horst Gerson Lecture 13

The Roman Garden of Agostino Chigi: The Thirteenth Horst Gerson Lecture, held on November 17, 2005

Ingrid D. Rowland

Horst Gerson Lecture 12

The Art of Laughter in the Age of Bruegel: The Twelfth Horst Gerson Lecture, held on November 20, 2003

Walter S. Gibson

Horst Gerson Lecture 11

The Aesthetics of Roman Eighteenth-century Sculpture: 'Late Baroque', 'Barochetto' or 'A discrete Art Historical Period'? The Eleventh Horst Gerson Lecture, held on November 8, 2001

Jennifer Montagu

Horst Gerson Lecture 10

The Power of Memory: The Tenth Horst Gerson Lecture, held on November 18, 1999

Henk van Os

Horst Gerson Lecture 09

Sprezzatura and the Art of Painting Finely. Open-ended Narration in Paintings by Apelles, Raphael, Michelangelo, Titian, Rembrandt and Ter Borch: The Ninth Horst Gerson Lecture, held on November 6, 1997

Philipp Fehl

Horst Gerson Lecture 08

'To the Happier Carpenter'. Rembrandt's War-Heroine Margaretha de Geer, the London Public and the right to Pictures: The Eighth Horst Gerson Lecture, held on November 9, 1995

Neil MacGregor

Horst Gerson Lecture 07

'Laudando Praecipere'. Der Medicizyklus des Peter Paul Rubens: The Seventh Horst Gerson Lecture, held on November 18,1993

Martin Warnke

Horst Gerson Lecture 06

Bathtime: Renoir, Cézanne, Daumier and the Practices of Bathing in Nineteenth-Century France: The Sixt Horst Gerson Lecture, held on November 21, 1991

Linda Nochlin

Horst Gerson Lecture 05

Rembrandt. The Holy Family, St Petersburg: The Fifth Horst Gerson Lecture, held on November 16, 1989

Egbert Haverkamp Begemann

Horst Gerson Lecture 04

Heroes, ancestors, relatives and the birth of the portrait: The Fourth Horst Gerson Lecture, held on May 26, 1988

Andrew Martindale, M.A. (Oxon.), F.S.A.

Horst Gerson Lecture 03

Repatriation of Art from the Collecting Point in Munich after World War II. Background and Beginnings, with Reference especially to the Netherlands: The Third Horst Gerson Lecture, held on March 13, 1986

Craig Hugh Smyth

Horst Gerson Lecture 02

Iconclasts and their motives: The Second Horst Gerson Lecture, held on October 7, 1983

David Freedberg

Horst Gerson Lecture 01

Form Follows Function, or does it? Modernist Design Theory and the History of Art: The First Horst Gerson lecture, held on October 2, 1981

Horst W. Janson