Dr. Ryan Gregg, who graduated from the Art Department (Art History) in 1999, will return to campus in mid-October.  Since graduating from Truman, Dr. Gregg has worked at the Art Institute of Chicago, earned a master's degree from Virginia Commonwealth University, and received his Ph.D. in Italian Renaissance Art History from The Johns Hopkins University.  He currently teaches Art History at Webster University in St. Louis.

During his visit, Dr. Gregg will meet with Art History and other students as well as with the student club Art History Society.  In addition, he will give a public lecture about his research.  Information about that talk follows:

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False Advertising in the Renaissance:  Fabricating Military Architecture in Images of Siege Warfare

It was common practice in the Renaissance to include a bird's-eye view of a city in images of warfare.  Such images normally offered a recognizable portrait of the city.  Occasionally, however, artists would alter or embellish a city's fortifications for propagandistic purposes. This paper, after first explaining how such city views were made, will discuss an example by the Florentine artist Giorgio Vasari of such fabrication, found in his painting in the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence celebrating Europe's 1532 defense of Vienna against the Islamic Ottoman Empire—a battle that never actually occurred.

Monday, October 19, 2009

6:00 p.m.

OP2210

Free and open to the public.

This event is generously sponsored by the University Art Gallery.