INVITED
Jul. 04, 2021 Leonardo da Vinci. One Day, One Master series, 4 x 75’ lectures. Institute of Continuing Education, University of Cambridge.
Early Dec. 2020 Old Master Drawings Lecture. Christie’s Education, London (title and day tbc).
Sep. 26, 2020 Leonardo’s mind on paper: between art and science. Alumni Festival, Fellows Talks. Clare Hall, Cambridge.
Nov. 28, 2019 From Ingegno to Disegno: Grotesques and Climactic Invention. Drawing and the Early Modern Graphic Imagination Colloquium. Centre for Visual Culture, Cambridge.
Nov. 02, 2019 Special focus: Italian Renaissance Drawing, Visual Culture in Renaissance Italy. Undergraduate Diploma in History of Art: Renaissance and Baroque. Institute of Continuing Education, University of Cambridge.
Sep. 18, 2019 Red Chalk Drawings, c. 1500-1800. Sources, Techniques and Styles, Dutch University Institute for Art History, Florence (declined).
Sep. 12, 2019 Milano-Venezia Andata e Ritorno. Leonardo, Giorgione, and the Venetian Workshop. The National Gallery, London.
Nov. 28, 2018 Before, With, and After Leonardo. The Leonardeschi of first and second generation: rupture and continuity’. Research Seminar Series. History of Art, Cambridge.
Jun. 28, 2018 Leonardo’s grotesque heads, ‘Early Modern Visual Wit. Genius before Romanticism: Ingenuity in Early Modern Art and Science’. Trinity Hall Cambridge.
May 25, 2018 Samuel Butler on Gaudenzio Ferrari. Invited respondent, Workshop ‘Artistic Representations, Religious Diversity and the Secular University’. CRASSH Cambridge.
Mar. 06, 2018 Neoplatonism and Botticelli. Mill Lane Lecture Room 5, Cambridge.
Jun. 16 2017 Head for Art: Object-Based Teaching at the Fitzwilliam Museum. Clare College, Cambridge.
Jun. 13 2017 Drawn to Drawings: Why Study Old Masters Today? Clare Hall Colloquium, Cambridge.
May 18, 2016 Letture d’Arte: Il Morazzone. Ambrosiana, Milan (declined).
Jun. 23, 2015 Bleniese and Leonardesque Heads. Dutch University Institute for Art History, Florence.
Jun. 10, 2015 On the Grotesque: Aurelio Luini and Leonardo, Convegno Internazionale. Storia e storiografia dell’arte del Rinascimento a Milano e in Lombardia. Ambrosiana, Milan.
Mar. 27, 2014 Beyond Workshop Boundaries: the Luini and the Procaccini. The Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting, New York.
ORGANISED
Nov. 04, 2019 Conference organiser: Leonardo da Vinci 1519-2019: Art, History, Science. The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. Speakers: Peter Abrahams, Victoria Avery, Martin Clayton, Martin Kemp, Domenico Laurenza, Alexander Marr, Luke Syson. Sponsored by the Hauser-Raspe Foundation, Global Inkjet Systems, Pandora Fine Art, Sotheby’s Old Master Drawings, The Centre for Visual Culture and the Department of History of Art, Cambridge.
Mar. 22, 2018 Conference co-organiser, chair, and speaker: Grotesque heads in Renaissance and Early Modern Italy. The Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting, New Orleans.
May 15, 2018 Conference organiser and convener: Drawing in Seventeenth-Century Milan International Study Day. Clare Hall, Cambridge. Speakers include: Jonathan Bober, Giulio Bora, Hugh Brigstocke, Chris Fischer, Catherine Loisel, Alessandro Morandotti. Sponsored by the Wolfgang Ratjen Foundation.
Jul. 05, 2016 Conference organiser and convener: Drawing in Sixteenth-Century Milan International Study Day. Clare Hall, Cambridge. Speakers: Jonathan Bober, Giulio Bora, Martin Clayton, Sylvia Ferino-Pagden, Michael Kwakkelstein, Alexander Marr. Sponsored by the Wolfgang Ratjen Foundation.
Apr. 01, 2016 3-panel session organiser and chair: From theory to practice. Lomazzo’s aesthetic principles reflected in the art of his time. The Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting, Boston.
Mar. 27, 2015 3-panel session organiser and speaker: The North Italian Renaissance 1450-1650, New Studies in Drawing and Painting. The Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting, Berlin.
