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SUMMARY:The Bettie Allison Rand Lectures in Art History: Alexander Marr\, U
 niversity of Cambridge
LOCATION:University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill\, Chapel Hill\, NC\, U
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DESCRIPTION:Pictorial Intelligence in Renaissance Art: Holbein’s Wit\n\nT
 he Renaissance witnessed intense debate about the nature and location of h
 uman intelligence. When it came to artists\, this was focused on natural e
 ndowments versus trained skill\, the relationship between the mind and the
  hand\, and—especially among humanists—whether pictorial art was capab
 le of intelligent authorship as opposed to mere replication of the visible
  world. Taking Hans Holbein the Younger as a case study\, this lecture wil
 l explore how the mindful hand of a supremely gifted painter could demonst
 rate the inherent ingenuity and playful wit of an inventive--rather than m
 erely mimetic--artistic intelligence.\n\nAlexander Marr is University Prof
 essor of Renaissance and Early Modern Art. He specializes in European art 
 1400-1800\, especially its intellectual and literary aspects in their soci
 al contexts. His most recent publication is Holbein's Wit: Pictorial Ingen
 uity in Renaissance Art.\n\nBefore coming to Cambridge\, he taught at the 
 University of Southern California and the University of St Andrews. From 2
 014 to 2019\, he was Director of the project Genius before Romanticism: In
 genuity in Early Modern Art & Science\, funded by an ERC Consolidator Gran
 t. His awards include a Paul Mellon Centre Senior Fellowship\, the Robert 
 H. Smith Residency at the V&A\, and a Philip Leverhulme Prize. He was the 
 founding Director of Cambridge Visual Culture (CVC). In 2024\, he delivere
 d the Pharos Lectures at the University of Oxford.\n\nThrough a generous g
 ift to the UNC Arts and Sciences Foundation\, William G. Rand established 
 this lecture series in memory of his late wife\, Bettie Allison Rand. This
  funding enables the Department of Art and Art History to invite one or mo
 re eminent art historians to UNC-CH every other year for residencies of va
 rious lengths. While they are in Chapel Hill\, these scholars present a se
 ries of lectures and interact with undergraduate and graduate art history 
 and studio art students.
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