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PUBLIC TALK: Missing Magnificence: tracing Catherine de Medici�s hidden cultural legacy

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Today's date is Friday, March 29, 2024
Missing Magnificence: tracing Catherine de Medici�s hidden cultural legacy : Celebrating the 90th Anniversary of Italian Studies at UWA Other events...
A public talk by Professor Susan Broomhall, History, UWA.

2019 is also the 500th anniversary of the birth of Catherine de Medici. As queen consort, regent and queen mother, Catherine dominated sixteenth-century French political life. Embracing her Medici heritage, her cultural projects, from palaces and artworks, to ceramics and exotica, were widely reported (and critiqued) in her lifetime. But where can we see it today? This lecture explores Catherine's extensive cultural patronage and its legacy in Europe today, often hiding in plain sight.

2019 marks the 90th anniversary of the teaching of Italian language and culture at The University of Western Australia. In 1929, Francesco Vanzetti, an idiosyncratic and popular Venetian, offered the first courses in Italian. This was the first appointment of a lecturer in Italian in any Australian university. This lecture series, supported by the Institute of Advanced Studies and by Italian Studies in the UWA School of Humanities, celebrates aspects of Italian language and culture, past and present.
Location Woolnough Lecture Theatre, Geology Building, UWA
Contact Institute of Advanced Studies <[email protected]> : 6488 1340
URL http://www.ias.uwa.edu.au/lectures/uwaitalian
Start Tue, 18 Jun 2019 18:00
End Tue, 18 Jun 2019 19:00
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Last Updated Mon, 06 May 2019 14:47
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