About this Event
Join the Abbey Museum Friends for an enlightening exploration into art and science during the Renaissance with Associate Professer Andrea Bubenik.
Synopsis: The contemporary distinction between art and science would have been incomprehensible to Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528) and Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519). For these Renaissance ‘artist-scientists’ techniques of visualizing, not just the written word, were deeply relevant for observing and making sense of nature. In this lecture, I explore the natural worlds of Dürer and Leonardo, and consider especially how their images not only afford the possibility of an interdisciplinary approach, but rather necessitate it. From a microcosmic tuft of grass to a seemingly insignificant beetle, a lesson in anatomy to a study of the motion of water: these images all matter to the history of ideas as much as texts do, with demonstrable impact on the pursuit of knowledge.
Bio: Andrea Bubenik is Associate Professor in Art History at the University of Queensland, Australia. Her research and teaching is focused on Renaissance and Baroque art, early modern links between art and science, and the historiography of art from ancient times to the present. Her books include The Persistence of Melancholia (editor, 2019), Perspectives on Wenceslaus Hollar (2016), and Reframing Albrecht Dürer (2013). She was the curator of the exhibitions Ecstasy: Baroque and Beyond (2017) and Five Centuries of Melancholia(2014), both held at the UQ Art Museum.
Why not come a little earlier and visit the Museum to see the collections of sculptures, stained glass, ceramics, carvings, lacquerware, illuminated manuscripts and rare books. Our art collection includes Renaissance and Baroque paintings, frescos, and water colours now on display in our new Art Gallery - Inspired Images: The Art Of Faiths.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Abbey Museum of Art and Archaeology, 1 - 63 The Abbey Place, Caboolture, Australia
AUD 11.39 to AUD 21.79
