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The Ian Potter Museum of Art, The University of Melbourne.
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Forthcoming Events

Gerry Higgins Professorial Fellow Gerard Vaughan
Dean's Lecture Series - Offshore: Australian Art Collectors Abroad
March 27, 2013, University of Melbourne Public Lecture Theatre


Florence: Study Abroad in 2013
A newly devised study abroad subject will be taught over three weeks, from 25th November to 15th December 2010

Recent Events

An International Symposium
The Power of Luxury: Machiavelli's Prince and the Culture of the Courts in Renaissance Italy

February 19 and 20, 2013, University of Melbourne


Colonial Art Exhibitions: past, present, future. This symposium brings together many of Australia's leading directors, senior librarians, curators, conservators and academics to discuss the past, present and future interpretation of colonial art in this country. This is a free public event, November 23 and 24, 2012.


The Legacies of Bernard Smith: A symposium at the Universities of Melbourne and Sydney.  The Melbourne leg will take place on September 20 and 21, 2012 and the Sydney Leg on November 9 and 10, 2012.


International Renaissance Symposium. A public lecture and international symposium on 9 and 10 March 2012, held in the Public Lecture Theatre, Old Arts Building at the University of Melbourne. Download the flyer.

Free Public Lecture: 'Benjamin West and "The Venetian Secret": Art and Fraud in Late Eighteenth-century London', presented by Angus Trumble, Curator of Painting and Sculpture, Yale Center for British Art. Thursday 17 March, 2011, 6.30-7.30pm, Elisabeth Murdoch Lecture Theatre, University of Melbourne.


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