Homewood Museum, in cooperation with The Johns Hopkins
University's Sheridan Libraries,
presents the eighth annual Baltimore's Great Architects
Symposium Andrea Palladio from Rome to
Baltimore from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Friday, April 11, in
the Graham Auditorium at the Walters Art
Museum. Registration is required for the symposium and is
requested by Monday, April 7.
An international panel of five distinguished scholars
will explore current research on Italian
Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio, one of the greatest
architects of the Western world, and his
lasting influence on building design in America.
The symposium concludes on the Johns Hopkins Homewood
campus with a reception at
Homewood Museum, where attendees will have an opportunity
to tour the Palladian-inspired Federal-era country
house.
The symposium was organized to commemorate the 500th
anniversary of Palladio's birth, and is
made possible in part by the Center for Palladian Studies
and a generous grant from the Samuel H.
Kress Foundation.
It is presented in association with the exhibition
Harmony to the Eyes: Charting Palladio's
Architecture from Rome to Baltimore, jointly organized by
Homewood Museum and the Sheridan
Libraries and on view through June 17 at the university's
George Peabody Library in Mount Vernon.
The symposium's morning session, scheduled for 9:30 to
11:45 a.m., begins with remarks by
Winston Tabb, Sheridan Dean of University Libraries and
director of JHU Museums, and introductions
by Stephen Campbell, chair of the Department of the History
of Art at Johns Hopkins. The talks are
"Palladio's Rome," by Vaughan Hart and Peter Hicks,
Department of Architecture and Civil Engineering,
University of Bath; and "Palladio and the Face of Battle:
The Illustrated Editions of Julius Caesar and
Polybius," by Guido Beltramini, Centro Internazionale di
Studi di Architettura Andrea Palladio, Vicenza.
The afternoon presentations, from 1:30 to 4 p.m., are
"Palladio's Publics," by Tracy E. Cooper,
Tyler School of Art, Temple University; "Palladio in
America," by Calder Loth, senior architectural
historian, Virginia Department of Historic Resources; and
"Laurence Hall Fowler and the Maryland Hall
of Records: The Architect as Archivist and Architectural
Historian," by Edward C. Papenfuse,
Maryland state archivist.
The reception at Homewood Museum is scheduled for 4:30
to 6:30 p.m.
Registration for the symposium is $50 for the general
public and $35 for Homewood Museum
members, Friends of the Sheridan Libraries and students
with a valid student ID. AIA and ASID
members will receive six AIA/CES HSW credits for the full
program with registration. Additional
registration and payment are required for an optional
buffet lunch at the Garrett-Jacobs Mansion.
For complete symposium information, and to download the
registration form, go to
www.museums.jhu.edu/symposium.
Both the symposium and exhibition are part of the
Baltimore Festival of Maps, a citywide
celebration of mapping that opened March 15 and continues
through June 8 with more than 45
exhibitions, tours, seminars, performances, lectures,
hands-on activities, workshops and films. For the
complete schedule of Baltimore Festival of Maps activities,
go to
www.BaltimoreFestivalofMaps.com.