Medals, Monuments, and Maps—Imagining Byzantium in the Renaissance, lecture by Elena Boeck (DePaul University and Dumbarton Oaks), Art Institute of Chicago, May 18, 2017, 6:00 pm

How did Byzantium become an exotic and distant land for Renaissance audiences? Why was Constantinople equated with Troy? Can a living empire become a symbol of a lost world?  In this lecture, Elena Boeck explores how the Renaissance artists imagined Byzantium.

Elena N. Boeck (Ph.D., Yale) is professor of art history at DePaul University and is currently serving as the Director of Byzantine Studies at Dumbarton Oaks. She specializes in the arts of the medieval Mediterranean world.