{"id":3054,"date":"2019-11-07T11:29:18","date_gmt":"2019-11-07T11:29:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/?p=3054"},"modified":"2019-11-07T11:29:18","modified_gmt":"2019-11-07T11:29:18","slug":"ben-thomas-to-chair-panel-on-curating-leonardo-da-vinci","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/2019\/11\/07\/ben-thomas-to-chair-panel-on-curating-leonardo-da-vinci\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Thomas to chair panel on curating Leonardo da Vinci"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/arts\/people\/academic-staff\/thomas.html\">Dr Ben Thomas<\/a>, Reader in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/arts\/hpa.html\">Department of Art History<\/a>, will be chairing a round-table discussion entitled \u2018Curating Leonardo\u2019 in London on Monday 11 November 2019. The event is part of Leonardo 500, a series of events marking the 500th anniversary of Leonardo da Vinci\u2019s death.<\/p>\n<p>The 500th anniversary of the death of Leonardo da Vinci has brought with it an impressive array of exhibitions including <em>Leonardo da Vinci<\/em> (Louvre),<em> Leonardo da Vinci: A Life in Drawing<\/em> (Royal Collection Trust), and <em>Leonardo: Experience a Masterpiece<\/em> (National Gallery). What have been the challenges for curators in addressing Leonardo&#8217;s legacy? What have we learnt about Leonardo from the different approaches adopted? How can the complex and fragile artefacts associated with Leonardo be made accessible to today&#8217;s public? A panel of leading curators will discuss these and other issues raised by the Leonardo anniversary.<\/p>\n<p>The panel will include Caroline Campbell (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalgallery.org.uk\/\">National Gallery<\/a>), Per Rumberg (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.royalacademy.org.uk\/\">Royal Academy<\/a>), Ana Debenedetti (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vam.ac.uk\/\">V&amp;A<\/a>) and Catherine Yvard (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vam.ac.uk\/info\/national-art-library\">National Art Library<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>The event has been co-organised by the <a href=\"https:\/\/warburg.sas.ac.uk\/\">Warburg Institute;<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/iiclondra.esteri.it\/iic_londra\/it\/\">The Italian Cultural Institute;<\/a>\u00a0the<a href=\"https:\/\/modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk\/research-centres\/centre-study-cultural-memory\"> Centre for Cultural Memory<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk\/about-us\/italian-friends\">Friends of Italian Studies at the Institute for Modern Languages Research<\/a>, School of Advanced Study, University of London; and the Histories Research Group at the School of Arts, University of Kent.<\/p>\n<p>The event will be held at <a href=\"https:\/\/iiclondra.esteri.it\/iic_londra\/it\/\">The Italian Cultural Institute<\/a> in London. It runs from 6pm to 7.15pm.<\/p>\n<p>For more details, and to book, please see the page here:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/warburg.sas.ac.uk\/events\/event\/21459\">https:\/\/warburg.sas.ac.uk\/events\/event\/21459<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Ben Thomas, Reader in the Department of Art History, will be chairing a round-table discussion entitled \u2018Curating Leonardo\u2019 in London on Monday 11 November &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/2019\/11\/07\/ben-thomas-to-chair-panel-on-curating-leonardo-da-vinci\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2458,"featured_media":2601,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[25563,168429,50209,124,9112,9111],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3054"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2458"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3054"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3061,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3054\/revisions\/3061"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}