Lectures/Feb 05, 2021

From Domestic to Divine: The Mosaics of Late Antique Syria

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From Domestic to Divine: The Mosaics of Late Antique Syria, lecture by Sean Leatherbury, (University College, Dublin), Yale University via Zoom, February 12, 2021, 12:00–1:00 PM

This is the sixth in a series of Yale Lectures in Late Antique and Byzantine Art and Architecture. The lecture series is organized by Robert S. Nelson, Robert Lehman Professor in the History of Art, and Vasileios Marinis, Associate Professor of Christian Art and Architecture at the ISM and YDS. Support is provided by the Department of Classics and the Department of the History of Art.

Sean Leatherbury is Assistant Professor and Ad Astra Fellow in the School of Art History and Cultural Policy at University College, Dublin. He is currently mosaics curator and board member of Manar al-Athar (http://www.manar-al-athar.ox.ac.uk), an open-access photo archive for the study of the ancient and medieval Middle East, based at Oxford. He is a member of the UCD Humanities Institute.

Zoom lectures begin at 12 noon Eastern Time; registration is required. You can register at any time to join a lecture. Your registration is valid for the whole series; attend as many as you like.