“Death in Venice: Constructing and Deconstructing Tombs in the Fourteenth Century”
by Dr. Louise Bourdua, Associate Professor, University of Warwick.

303 Paterson Hall, 5:45 p.m., Wednesday, January 21, 2015.

Presented by Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, School for Studies in Art and Culture and the College of the Humanities.

Dr. Bourdua, a distinguished scholar of late medieval and early Renaissance art in Italy, is an associate professor and chair of the department of the History of Art at Warwick University, UK. Her publications include: The Franciscans and Art Patronage in Late Medieval Italy (Cambridge University Press, 2004), and two co-edited volumes, Art and the Augustinian Order in Early Renaissance Italy (Ashgate, 2007) and A Wider Trecento: Studies in 13^th– and 14^th– century European Art (Brill, 2012). She has been the recipient of prestigious fellowships from the Center for Advanced Research in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery in Washington, D.C., the Harvard Center for Italian Renaissance Studies in Florence, Italy, the British School in Rome, the Leverhulme Trust, the British Academy/Association of Commonwealth Universities, the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation for Venetian Research and SSHRCC. She is currently finishing a book on painting during ‘the long fourteenth century’ in Padua, while pursuing research for a new book on artistic production in fourteenth-century Venice.

Dr. Bourdua’s research is pursued in the context of the University of Warwick’s interdisciplinary Centre for the Study of the Renaissance and she is a participant in the Warwick History of Art “Art in Italy 1200-1700: Research in Venice and Northern Italy” research cluster, in conjunction with the Warwick in Venice program. This program, operational for over 40 years and situated in a fifteenth-century Venetian palazzo since 2007, offers the University of Warwick Art History students a semester in Venice each fall. In the fall of 2014, the first cohort of five Carleton students joined the program, thanks to a pilot partnership between the two universities. To get a flavour of the exceptional experiences of our Carleton Art History students in Venice, read their blogs at http://carleton.ca/aah/venice-trip-2014/

In addition to her public lecture, Dr. Bourdua will be giving an information session for Carleton students interested in participating in the Warwick in Venice program Fall 2015 on Wednesday September 21, 11:30-12:30, in St. Pat’s 472.