Location: Elizabeth Fry Building 01.02 UEA

Date: 6.00pm   11 Dec 2012

Speaker: Professor Brendan Cassidy

Institution: St Andrews University

Ticket Price: Free

This year's lecture will be given by Professor Brendan Cassidy from The University of St Andrews on The Cult of Raphael in Britain: from the Tudors to the Victorians.

The Andrew Martindale Memorial Lectures

Professor Andrew Martindale, the distinguished art historian, died tragically in May 1995. He was a long-standing and much loved member of what became the School of World Art Studies and Museology under his leadership. He joined UEA in 1965 as Senior Lecturer in the History of Art, becoming Professor of Visual Art in 1974.

At the time of Andrew Martindale's death many friends and colleagues made donations to a memorial fund. As a result the School of World Art Studies has been able to present public lectures in honour of Professor Martindale since 1998. If you would like to contribute to the fund please contact Mrs Beverley Youngman, School of World Art Studies & Museology, University of East Anglia, Norwich, NR4 7TJ.

This year's lecture:

The Cult of Raphael in Britain: from the Tudors to the Victorians.

The speaker: Professor Brendan Cassidy

From the University of St Andrew's Website:

"Brendan Cassidy taught chemistry in Ghana, West Africa before returning to university to take his M.A. in Art History at Edinburgh and his Ph.D. at Cambridge. He has been Research Associate at the Warburg Institute, University of London (1985-88) and Director of the Index of Christian Art at Princeton University (1988-95). He has taught at St Andrews from 1996 & offers courses on Late-Medieval & Early Renaissance Italian art and on cultural relations between Italy & Britain in the eighteenth century. His recent research has investigated painted & sculpted imagery as evidence of societal tensions in Italy c.1250-1400 and the ways in which it was employed by the political classes to influence public opinion & behaviour. With a particular interest in sculpture he is currently researching a social history of the craft in Italy from the thirteenth century to Michelangelo. He remains interested also in the phenomenon of the Grand Tour."