Past Events
The Architecture of Oblivion:
Andrea Pozzo’s Sant’ Ignazio Fantasy
3401 Walnut Street. A Wing.
Institute for Research in Cognitive Science, Room 470
The quadratura paintings in Rome produced in the 17th century by the Jesuit friar, Andrea Pozzo, have been among the most discussed in the modern discourse on perspective, and for good reason. Pozzo produced works of great scale and magnitude and then wrote about his methods in a…
The Hand That Knows:
Epistemology and Picturing in Early Modern Anatomy
Annenberg School, Room 110
First printed in 1543, Andreas Vesalius’s De humani corporis fabrica challenged centuries of assumptions about human anatomy. One reason that the book was so persuasive to generations of physicians and anatomist was that the beautiful, folio-sized plates depicting the dissected…
Visual Studies Lecture Series 2012-2013
SPENCER FINCH
Eliminating the Visual Boundary Between Real and Virtual
Claudia Cohen Hall, Room 402
Norman Badler, Director of the Center for Human Modeling and Simulation, Professor of Computer and Information Science, Director and Faculty Advisor of the Digital Media Design Program
Margaret Livingstone
Penn Museum Rainy Auditorium
Wednesday, October 25, 2012 | 5:00 pm | Rainey Auditorium | Penn Museum Margaret Livingstone, Professor of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School "What Art Can Tell Us About How We See" [Penn Humanities Forum Event]