This seminar series offers a specially focused week-long seminar—hosted by a different museum with a significant Kress Collection—in 2010, 2011, and 2012. The first seminar took place at the Birmingham Museum of Art in Birmingham, Alabama in July 2010 and concentrated on the topic of artistic workshop practices of late medieval and Renaissance Italy. The second seminar was held at the High Museum in Atlanta, Georgia in June 2011 and focused on themes that appear in Renaissance and Baroque art, with an emphasis on the Italian Renaissance. The third and final seminar in summer 2012 will take place at the Allen Memorial Art Museum at Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio. Participants at each seminar examine actual works of art in notable galleries, engage in sessions with scholars and conservators, and participate in field trips to view related special collections, among other activities. The goal of the seminar series is to strengthen the teaching of art history to undergraduates at smaller colleges and universities.
This series of seminars is made possible with the generous support of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation.