“The Renaissance of Gardens” An evening symposium on Italian Renaissance gardens Richard Aitken Melbourne-based architect, historian and curator Luke Morgan Senior Lecturer in Art History & Theory at Monash University Specialising in garden history Richard has published and lectured widely, including an invitation in July 2014 to present at a colloquium on garden writing at the Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal, Lisbon. His books include The Oxford Companion to Australian Gardens (2002), Gardenesque (2004), Botanical Riches (2006), Seeds of Change (2006), The Garden of Ideas (2010), Cultivating Modernism (2013), and Planting Dreams (forthcoming, 2016). From 2007–15 he was co-editor of Australian Garden History, quarterly journal of the Australian Garden History Society. He has recently been invited by the State Library of New South Wales to curate a major new garden-themed exhibition to commemorate the bicentenary in 2016 of the Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. Luke's books include Nature as Model: Salomon de Caus and Early Seventeenth-Century Landscape Design (2007) and The Monster in the Garden: The Grotesque and the Gigantic in Renaissance Landscape Design (2015), both published by the University of Pennsylvania Press. Other recent publications include the chapters on design and meaning in A Cultural History of Gardens in the Renaissance, ed. Elizabeth Hyde (Bloomsbury, 2013), and the chapter on gardens and landscape for the Oxford Handbook to the Age of Shakespeare, ed. Malcolm Smuts (OUP, forthcoming 2016). His current research on Renaissance gardens in England and the theme of enchantment is funded by an Australian Research Council Discovery Project grant. Katherine Bentz Associate Professor of Art History at Saint Alsem College Andrea Rizzi Australian Research Council Future Fellow, The University of Melbourne Katherine's research centers on urbanism, landscape and garden history, and antiquities collections in early modern Rome. Her recent publications examine Ulisse Aldrovandi’s Di tutte le statue antiche, the rhetorical nature of Renaissance garden gates, and the social and agricultural history of the Cesi Garden in Rome. Her research has been supported by several fellowships, including a Junior Fellowship at Dumbarton Oaks, a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship at Columbia University, and grants from the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, The Getty Research Institute, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Friday, 26 June 2015 6.00pm - 7.30pm Macmahon Ball Theatre Ground Floor, Old Arts Building The University of Melbourne PARKVILLE VIC 3010 Admission is free. Bookings are required. Seating is limited. To register visit: http:// alumni.online.unimelb.edu.au/ renaissancegardens For further information please contact Jeremy Taylor at [email protected] or phone 8344 4720 A former Fellow at The Villa I Tatti, Andrea has published on vernacular translators in early Renaissance Italy, courtly culture in Ferrara and Mantua, and Italian translators at the court of Elizabeth I. SCHOOL OF LANGUAGES AND LINGUISTICS ITALIAN STUDIES SEMINAR
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