Hammer Art History Lectures
An internationally recognized scholar in art history is invited to deliver the Hammer Lecture, funded by the Armand Hammer Endowment for the UCLA CMRS Center for Early Global Studies
April 7, 2025
Shawon Kinew (Harvard University)
“St. Paul Among the Snakes: A Maltese Artist Goes Home, c. 1660”
April 2, 2024
Suzanne Blier (Harvard University)
“Patterns of Anomaly in African Ivories”
May 8, 2023
Nancy Um (Getty Research Institute)
“Silver: Mutability and Materiality across Seventeenth-Century Networks of Trade and Plunder in the Indian and Atlantic Oceans”
April 15, 2021
Elizabeth Hill Boone (Tulane University)
“Spatial Grammars: The Union of Art and Writing in the Painted Books of Aztec Mexico”
February 7, 2019
Antony Eastmond (Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London)
“Art and Cultural Resistance Between Islam and Christianity”
February 8, 2018
Jeremy Johns (Khalili Research Centre for the Art and Material Culture of the Middle East)
“Painters, Patrons, and Programme: The Ceilings of the Capella Palatina in Palermo”
February 28, 2017
Caroline Bruzelius (Duke University)
“Mapping, Modeling, and Apps. Experiments in Scholarship and Teaching in the Humanities”
January 28, 2016
Dale Kinney (Bryn Mawr College)
“Art and Papal Politics in Twelfth-Century Rome”
May 20, 2015
Michael Davis (Mount Holyoke College)
“Lost Buildings, Virtual Objects: Reimaging Medieval Paris”
February 12, 2013
Paul Binski (University of Cambridge)
“Invention on the Page: Marginalia in Medieval Art”
January 12, 2012
Patricia Fortini Brown (Princeton University)
“Empire of Fragments: Toward a Cultural Geography of the Venetian Empire”
April 11, 2011
Stephen Murray (Columbia University)
“Mapping Gothic France”
January 11, 2010
Alexander Nagel (New York University)
“Some Events of 1492”
February 19, 2009
Timothy C. Verdon (Florence, Italy)
“Pagans for Christ: Catholic Historiography in Raphael’s Frescoes in the Vatican”
February 7, 2008
Jean-Claude Schmitt (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales)
“Images and Rhythms in the Middle Ages”
Thursday, December 7, 2006
Ingrid Rowland (University of Notre Dame)
“Giordano Bruno’s Heroic Madness”
December 2, 2005
Brian P. Copenhaver (UCLA)
“From Magic to Science: Picturing a Way Out”
December 1, 2004
George L. Gorse (Pomona College)
“Genoa ‘La Superba’: Art, Family, and Civic Life in the Mediterranean World”
June 1, 2000
Paul Barolsky (University of Virginia)
“Botticelli’s Primavera and the Poetic Imagination of Italian Renaissance Art”
May 27, 1999
Loren Partridge (University of California, Berkeley)
“The Restored Last Judgment of Michelangelo”