Professor Christoph Frank, Università della Svizzera italiana Christoph Frank received his PhD in the History of the Classical Tradition from the Warburg Institute in 1993. Since 2005 he has been Professor of the History and Theory of Art and Architecture at the Università della Svizzera italiana, where in 2011 he founded the Istituto di Storia e Teoria dell'Arte e dell'Architettura. He specializes in eighteenth-century European art and is currently one of the three main applicants of a DFG-SNSF project devoted to the recently identified Piranesi Albums at the Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe.

Peter Burke (Professor Emeritus of Cultural History, University of Cambridge) Jonathan Jones (Art critic for The Guardian and former judge of the Turner Prize) Martin Ruehl (Senior Lecturer in German History and Thought, University of Cambridge)

Speaker: Glyn Davies, Museum of London

Speaker: Adam Lowe, Factum Arte, Madrid

On 20 April 2018, the Warburg Institute (in conjunction with the Cervantes Institute) will host an event on books and readers in the Spanish-speaking world, with the theme 'The Book as World, the World as Book'. The day will culminate in a conversation between Alberto Manguel, Director of the National Library of Argentina, and Bill Sherman, Director of the Warburg.

Tessa Murdoch, Victoria and Albert Museum Re-opening the Workshop: Medieval to Early Modern - Lecture Series Workshop and workshop practices represent a core and dynamic research strand in the history of art. This strand encompasses the study of canonical artists but equally of the anonymous producers whose activities can be deduced from the surviving art objects, thanks to ever developing research questions and methodologies. This topic helps us to think about the agents and their networks (artists, patrons and other market consumers), objects and socio-economic factors (making, buying and trading) as well as the broader cultural issues of the transmission of skills and ideas (the movement of artists, objects and imagery). Our lecture series brings together leading experts in medieval and early modern historical periods in and beyond Europe, particular highpoints for the study of workshop practices, and also those researching workshop continuities and changes in later centuries, including digital mediation. The aim of our lecture series on the artistic workshop is to speak to an interdisciplinary audience who are interested in thinking about issues such as agency and the commission, production and the use of art works and objects in the widest possible sense as well as those attuned to the theoretical implications these issues have for visual and material culture of all ages/periods. The lecture series will be free and open to a wide public. It will also constitute an important element for our students on postgraduate programmes.

Speaker: Manuel Arias, Museo Nacional da Escultura, Valladolid Re-opening the Workshop: Medieval to Early Modern - Lecture Series Workshop and workshop practices represent a core and dynamic research strand in the history of art. This strand encompasses the study of canonical artists but equally of the anonymous producers whose activities can be deduced from the surviving art objects, thanks to ever developing research questions and methodologies. This topic helps us to think about the agents and their networks (artists, patrons and other market consumers), objects and socio-economic factors (making, buying and trading) as well as the broader cultural issues of the transmission of skills and ideas (the movement of artists, objects and imagery). Our lecture series brings together leading experts in medieval and early modern historical periods in and beyond Europe, particular highpoints for the study of workshop practices, and also those researching workshop continuities and changes in later centuries, including digital mediation. The aim of our lecture series on the artistic workshop is to speak to an interdisciplinary audience who are interested in thinking about issues such as agency and the commission, production and the use of art works and objects in the widest possible sense as well as those attuned to the theoretical implications these issues have for visual and material culture of all ages/periods. The lecture series will be free and open to a wide public. It will also constitute an important element for our students on postgraduate programmes.

The Warburg Institute Addressing and Undressing the Female Body in the Magdalene Chapel at San Francesco, Assisi Keynote address Penny Jolly (Skidmore College)

The Warburg Institute Addressing and Undressing the Female Body in the Magdalene Chapel at San Francesco, Assisi Keynote address Penny Jolly (Skidmore College)

The Warburg Institute 'Divine proportion' in Renaissance Venice: Bellini, Carpaccio and Luca Pacioli Paul Hills (Professor Emeritus, The Courtauld Institute of Art) Venetian painting around 1500 is marked by a distinctive geometry. In this lecture, Professor Paul Hills explores the synergy between the artistic Euclidian culture of the Venetian Republic, broadly from the arrival of Giorgio Valla in 1481 through to the publication of Luca Pacioli's Divina proportione in 1509. Examining a number of works by Bellini and Carpaccio, I suggest how the emphasis on geometry and 'divine proportion' confirms the arrival of what Belting termed 'the era of art'. This is the first lecture in the Director's Seminar Series.