DFW Compact Seminar: Interrogating the English Portrait

This year’s compact seminar, organized by Professor Tatiana String (UNC, Art History) is centered on the theme “Interrogating the English Portrait: Tudor and Jacobean Portraits in the North Carolina Museum of Art.” It will bring together an international panel of experts to explore topics related to early modern portraiture through close study of an extraordinary collection of late sixteenth and early seventeenth century English portraits in the North Carolina Museum of Art. This unique collaborative event will be held at the NCMA in its new exhibition, History and Mystery: Discoveries in the NCMA British Collection. Contributors to the seminar will include scholars from the National Portrait Gallery in London, the University of Sussex, the University of Southampton, the Yale Center for British Art, and UNC-CH.

The opening event will be a public lecture on Sunday, September 11 at 2:30 in the NCMA’s Auditorium, presented by Professor Maria Hayward (University of Southampton, History) and entitled: “the apparel oft proclaims the man: The significance of clothing in Elizabethan and Jacobean portraits.”