Poster, background enamel design on gold, all text in body of article

Nature Conquers Nature 4.19.22

The Pulse of Art History Lecture, "Nature Conquers Nature: Byzantine Enamel as 'Technē-morphic' Alchemy" Shannon Steiner April 19, 2022, 4:45pm Goldwin Smith Hall G22, reception to follow

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Benjamin Anderson

Archaeology Program, Classics, History of Art and Visual Studies, Medieval Studies Program, Society for the Humanities

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Annetta Alexandridis

Archaeology Program, Classics, History of Art and Visual Studies, Institute for German Cultural Studies

An African man's head with a ray-like collar above the face of a roaring lion with other artwork from the Sculpture Shoppe exhibition in the background.

Contemporary and ancient art exhibit enlivens Ithaca Mall

The “Sculpture Shoppe” exhibition displays selections from Cornell’s plaster cast collection of Greco-Roman sculptures alongside – and sometimes within – contemporary artists’ responses to cast culture and classical art.

Kremnitzer

Kathryn Kremnitzer, '13, Vice President, Director, and Head of Sale for 19th-Century European Paintings, Sotheby's, New York

Kathryn Kremnitzer joined Sotheby’s in June 2021. She earned her BA from Cornell in History of Art in 2013 and a PhD at Columbia University in 2020 with a dissertation that explored how Édouard Manet worked across media in the 1860s. She was previously Research Associate in the Painting and Sculpture of Europe department at the Art Institute of Chicago, where she worked on Manet and Modern Beauty (2019), Monet and Chicago (2020), and Cezanne (2022), and contributed to the online scholarly catalogue of Manet’s works in the collection. As a Curatorial Assistant at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, she worked on Madame Cézanne (2014) and Tiepolo Caricatures from the Robert Lehman Collection (2014). She specializes in 19th century European painting, particularly French, and works on paper.

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