BUILDING THE LOUVRE: Architectures of Politics and Art
Conference Program
October 4, 2012 -
- 3:30pm- 4:30pm – Welcome Reception
- 4:30pm – 6:10 pm – Medieval Louvre and Early Modern Louvre
“The Capetian Louvre: from City Dreams to Fortress on the Seine” Sarah-Grace Heller
(Ohio State University)
“Building in the Vernacular: The Louvre, Letters, and Nationhood under Charles V (1364-80)”
Mark Cruse (Arizona State University)
“From Marriage to Massacre: The Louvre in August 1572”
Phillip John Usher (Barnard College)
- 6:30pm– Screening: La Ville Louvre, Nicolas Philibert, 1990. Introduction by Margaret C. Flinn (Ohio State University)
October 5, 2012 -
- 10:30am-12:10am – The Birth of the Museum
Chair: Andrew Shelton (History of Art, Ohio State University)
“Towards Political, Social, and Urban Transformations in the Grand Siècle”
Hélène Visentin (Smith College)
“Revolution at the Louvre” Natasha Lee (Princeton University)
“Châteaux en Espagne: Louis-Philippe's Politics of Collecting and the Galerie Espagnole”
Bettina Lerner (City College of New York, CUNY)
- 2:30pm-3:50pm – The Modern Louvre
“Prose Constructions: the Louvre in Nerval and Baudelaire” Patrick Bray (Ohio State University)
“Open City: Philibert’s La Ville Louvre” Margaret C. Flinn (Ohio State University)
“Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism at the Louvre Abu Dhabi”
Seth Graebner (Washington University, St. Louis)
For further information, please contact Prof. Patrick Bray.
The conference is sponsored by the Department of French and Italian at the Ohio State University and by the Columbus Museum of Art. Additional funding was provided by the College of Arts and Sciences, the Department of Art Education, the Department of History, The Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, The Department of History of Art, The Program in Film Studies, and the Department of Spanish and Portuguese.
