Fifty Years after Panofsky’s ‘Tomb Sculpture’, conference, London

21 June 2014 
Conference on Fifty Years after Panofsky’s Tomb Sculpture: New Approaches, New Perspectives, New Material, Courtauld Institute of Art, London.
Will include two 25-minute papers on Portuguese tombs:
1) ‘Medieval Women commemorated as readers: the iconography of reading as a specific feature of female Portuguese medieval monuments’ delivered by Joana Ramôa Melo of the New University of Lisbon;
2) Does technical investigation fully answer art history questions? A case study of a Portuguese copper tomb from the early fifteenth century by Marisa Costa of the University of Lisbon.
Ticket price £16 (£11 students/concessions)