“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/

-- 
Ray Bonis
Special Collections and Archives
VCU Libraries
804-828-1108

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