Bard Graduate Center presents An Iconology of the Textile in Art and Architecture: Review of a Project at the Art History Institute, University of Zurich, a workshop with members of the ERC Project Textile at the University of Zurich.

Anna Bücheler
“Ornament Matters: Medieval Books and Material Metaphors”

Mateusz Kapustka
“Clothes as Remnants: Pictorial Values of the Fabric”

Tabea Schindler
“Virtue and Virtuosity. The Representation of the Textile in Dutch Painting of the Golden Age”

Tristan Weddigen
“Textile Spaces, Interior and Exterior”

Barbara Caen
“Tapestries in the 19th Century. Renaissances of a Historical Medium”

Katharine Wells
“Tapestries and Tableaux in the 20th Century”

Light refreshments will be served at 5:45 pm. The presentations and roundtable discussion will be from 6:00 to 7:30 pm.

RSVP is required. Please click on the registration link at the bottom of this page or contact [email protected].

PLEASE NOTE that our Lecture Hall can only accommodate a limited number of people, so please come early if you would like to have a seat in the main room. We also have overflow seating available; all registrants who arrive late will be seated in the overflow area.