“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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