The Annual Riley Family Class of 2013 Lecture
The Riley Family Class of 2013 Art History Lecture Fund is a true endowment established by a gift from Donald J. and Donna J.G. Riley, Dartmouth Parents '13, and Benjamin M. Riley, Class of 2013. It is designed to support a lecture series organized by the Department of Art History at Dartmouth College.
The Annual Riley Family Class of 2013 Art History Lecture supports our pre-1850 art and architecture curriculum.
2026 Riley Family Class of 2013 Lecture:
To be announced
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2024 Riley Family Class of 2013 Lecture:
October 17, 2024
"Dionysos in the City Square: from Ancient Athens to the United States"
Milette Gaifman
Andrew Downey Orrick Professor of Classics and History of Art; Chair of History of Art, Yale University
2024 Riley Lecture
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"Leonardo: The Artisan's Absent Body"
Stephen J. Campbell
Henry and Elizabeth Wiesenfeld Professor, Department of the History of Art, Johns Hopkins University
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February 1, 2023
"Picturing the Saint as Social Worker: Saints, Miracles, and Social Problems in Italian Renaissance Art"
Diana Bullen Presciutti
Professor of Art History, University of Essex
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January 20, 2022
"The Villa dei Papiri: From Herculaneum to Malibu"
Dr. Kenneth Lapatin
Curator of Antiquities at the J. Paul Getty Museum
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January 29, 2020
"The Revelation of the Earth"
Alexander Nagel
Professor of Fine Arts, The Institute of Fine Arts, NYU
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January 16, 2019
"Daughters of Mnemosyne: Architecture, Memory Storage, and the Helleno-Roman Theater"
Professor Rabun Taylor
Department of Classics, University of Texas at Austin
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September 28, 2017
"Growing Up Athenian: The Parthenon Sculpture, Identity, and Genealogical Succession Myth"
Joan Breton Connelly
Professor of Classics and Art History, NYU; Director, Yeronisos Island Excavations, Cyprus
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October 20, 2016
"Leisure and Commerce at Oplontis (50 BC-AD 79): Research Strategies and Latest Developments"
John R. Clarke
Annie Laurie Howard Regents Professor, Department of Art and Art History, The University of Texas at Austin
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January 14, 2016
"Michelangelo believe it or not!"
Paul Barolsky
Commonwealth Professor of Italian Renaissance Art and Literature, University of Virginia
William E. Wallace
Barbara Murphy Bryant Distinguished Professor of Art History, Washington University, St. Louis
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January 29, 2015
"From Ritual Book to State Relic: The Cultural Biography of a Greek Illuminated Manuscript in Florence"
Robert Nelson
Robert Lehman Professor of the History of Art, Yale University