Research Seminar Series in Art History
Venue: Provost's House Stables/TRIARC seminar room
Time: 4.00
For further information, contact Ruth Sheehy, Slide Librarian
Wednesday 20 February
Art and Politics – Building the Irish Free State – The Paris Congress 1922
Billy Shortall, Ph.D. research student
Department of History of Art & Architecture (TCD)
Wednesday 13 March
Lucian Freud in Dublin, Jack B Yeats in London
Nathan O’Donnell, IRC Postdoctoral Fellow
TRIARC (TCD) and Irish Museum of Modern Art
Wednesday 10 April
The Trade in Medieval Manuscripts in Early Twentieth Century and its impact on how we value Old Books
Dr Laura Cleaver
Department of History of Art & Architecture (TCD) ERC Consolidator Grant award recipient
In May 2019, Dr Cleaver will start a five-year research project, funded by the European Research Council, into the trade in medieval manuscripts in the period 1900-1945. This paper will explain how preliminary research into the collections of Alfred Chester Beatty and Charles Dyson Perrins has shaped the research questions to be addressed in the new project. In particular, it will explore how the increasingly wide-reaching trade in manuscripts in this period helped shape attitudes to manuscripts as object of art and items of national significance