The event will be livestreamed here.
Please join friends, colleagues, students, and family for the presentation of The Art of the Renaissance Book
and
Tributes to Lilian Armstrong (1936-2021)
Wellesley College, B.A., 1958
Columbia University, Ph.D., 1966
Speakers:
Cristina Dondi, Oxford University
Federica Toniolo, University of Padua
llaria Andreoli, University of Normandy, Caen
Helena Katalin Szépe, University of South Florida
Giordana Mariani Canova, University of Padua
Tracy Cooper, Temple University
Frederick Ilchman, Save Venice and Boston Museum of Fine Arts
Holger Klein, Columbia University
Caroline Wamsler, Columbia University
Jill Armstrong
Luca Albisetti
Friday, June 16, 2023
5:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. Central European Time
11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. Eastern Standard Time
Palazzo Franchetti, Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti, Venice
For in-person attendance, kindly RSVP at 212-851-4026 or [email protected] by June 8
Lilian Armstrong (Columbia University, Ph.D., 1966).
Lilian Armstrong was the Mildred Lane Kemper Professor of Art at Wellesley College until 2006 and a passionate lifelong art historian of Italian Renaissance manuscripts and early printed books. After obtaining her bachelor's degree at Wellesley, Lilian came to Columbia in 1959, where she studied under Meyer Schapiro and completed her thesis with Rudolf Wittkower as her advisor. Always an innovator, Lilian, like David Rosand, eschewed the tradition of studying at the American Academy in Rome and instead turned to Venice, where in fact David and Ellen Rosand inherited her former apartment, Casa Molinari in Campo Bandiera e Moro, in the early 1960s. Lilian and the Rosands went on to share a lifelong circle of Venetian friends and scholars.
Lilian was tirelessly generous in advising innumerable scholars, especially younger ones, around the world. We celebrate her adventurous spirit, her exemplary model as a mentor, and her contributions to the field of Italian Renaissance art history.
The Art of the Renaissance Book is available here.
