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DESCRIPTION:Timothy Wilson will be speaking at the Joan Stacke Graham\nLect
 ure on Tuesday\, April 24\, 2012.  His talk is entitled “Majolica and\nMai
 olica in Victorian England.” \n\nTimothy Wilson is Professor of the Arts o
 f the Renaissance at Oxford University\, and has been Keeper of the Depart
 ment of Western Art at the Ashmolean Museum\, Oxford (a department of Oxfo
 rd University)\, since 1990.  He was previously (1979-1990) Assistant Keep
 er with responsibility for the Renaissance collections in the Department o
 f Medieval and Later Antiquities of the British Museum.  Wilson’s publicat
 ions on Renaissance ceramics include Ceramic Art of the Italian Renaissanc
 e (British Museum\, London\, 1987)\; Maiolica: Italian Renaissance Ceramic
 s in the Ashmolean Museum (2nd ed\, Oxford 2003)\; Le maioliche rinascimen
 tali nelle collezioni della Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Perugia (edit
 or and principal author) (Perugia 2006-7)\; the entries on ceramics in Wes
 tern Decorative Arts\, Part 1 (Systematic Catalogue of the National Galler
 y of Art\, Washington\, DC\; Washington and Cambridge 1993) and on Urbino 
 maiolica in the catalogue of the ceramics in the Museo d’Arti Applicate at
  the Castello Sforzesco\, Milan (2000)\; as well as many articles in Engli
 sh and Italian periodicals and entries in exhibition catalogues.  Addition
 ally\, Wilson was editor of Italian Renaissance Pottery (British Museum\, 
 London\, 1991) and co-author of Italian Renaissance ceramics: a catalogue 
 of the British Museum collection (British Museum\, London\, 2009).  He is 
 currently working on a book on maiolica in the Metropolitan Museum of Art 
 and is a Senior Fellow of the Frick Center for the History of Collecting.M
 aiolica is Italian tin-glazed pottery\, which\, at its\nmost ambitious in 
 the sixteenth century\, is effectively a branch of Renaissance\npainting. 
  In the middle of the nineteenth century it became the object of\npassiona
 te and competitive collection by museums and wealthy individuals in\nEngla
 nd\, France\, and elsewhere in Europe.  One of what is now the greatest\no
 f all collections of Renaissance maiolica was launched\, after the Great L
 ondon\nExhibition of 1851\, at the museum in South Kensington now known as
  the Victoria\nand Albert Museum.  The success and collectability of this 
 pottery encouraged\nthe great Stoke-on-Trent firm of Minton’s to launch a 
 product that they\nnamed Majolica\, using the Victorian pronunciation of t
 he Italian word.\n The stated purpose of the museum in its founding years 
 was to improve\npublic taste and to provide models for British industry.  
 This lecture\nwill look at how this aim succeeded spectacularly in pottery
 \, giving rise to\nthe hugely successful Victorian product we still call M
 ajolica.The Joan Stacke Graham Lectures are supported by the\nMajolica Int
 ernational Society.Light refreshments will be served at 5:45 pm. The\npres
 entation will begin at 6:00 pm.RSVP is required. PLEASE NOTE that our Lect
 ure Hall can only accommodate\na limited number of people\, so please come
  early if you would like to have a\nseat in the main room.  We also have o
 verflow seating available\; all\nregistrants who arrive late will be seate
 d in the overflow area.
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SUMMARY:Bard Graduate Center: Majolica and Maiolica in Victorian England
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