“Palladianism and Its Alternatives,”
Virginia Commonwealth University's 16th Annual Symposium on
Architectural History and the Decorative Arts, will take place on
/Friday, 14 November, 2008/. The conference commemorates the 500th
anniversary of the birth of Andrea Palladio and honors a great scholar
of the Classical tradition, the late Frank H. Sommer III, former Head of
Libraries, Winterthur Museum and Country Estate. The presentations,
directed by Professor Charles Brownell, will cover subjects ranging from
Virginia Classicism (the Second Williamsburg Capitol, Mount Vernon)
through furniture of the Classical tradition in the Virginia Museum of
Fine Arts, to twentieth-century heirs of Palladio (such as William
Lawrence Bottomley). Winterthur, George Washington’s Mount Vernon, and
the Thomas Jefferson Foundation join the the Valentine Richmond History
Center and the Symposium’s other regular cosponsors. The conference will
take place at the Virginia Historical Society, at 428 North Boulevard,
Richmond, from 9:00 AM to 3:30 PM Admission is free to students, $8.00
per person for members of sponsoring institutions, and $10.00 per person
for others. The charge for a post-conference reception is an additional
$10.00. For reservations, please send checks, payable to VCU, to
Conference, Department of Art History, Virginia Commonwealth University,
P.O. Box 843046, 922 West Franklin Street, Richmond, VA 23284–3046, by
November 7. For hard copy of the brochure or other information, please
call 804.828.2784 or email Cynthia Myron at [log in to unmask]
<mailto:[log in to unmask]>.
http://www.vcu.edu/arts/arthistory/dept/
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Ray Bonis
Special Collections and Archives
VCU Libraries
804-828-1108
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