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Dear Friends,

MEMS continues to sponsor the Premodern Colloquium (meets Sunday afternoons once a month) as well as occasional MEMS Lectures.

We hope you will join us, and watch the website calendar of events for upcoming lectures and other activities of interest!

The Premodern Colloquium. Jacopo Bassano and the Flood of Feltre

James Pilgrim, NEH Collaborative Humanities Postdoctoral Fellow, Vanderbilt University
Sunday, October 23, 2022
4:00-6:00 PM
Virtual
Painted by the Venetian artist-engineer Jacopo Bassano in 1576, The Flood of the Colmeda commemorates the 1564 inundation of a small town in the mountains to the north of Venice. Adopting an ecocritical perspective, this paper argues that Bassano’s painting evokes period speculation about the potential human causes of flooding on the Venetian mainland. This argument in turn suggests that the artist's rustic style was a response not only to the taste for pastoral imagery in the city of Venice, but also to mounting concerns regarding the deleterious environmental effects of aggressive agricultural expansion throughout the Venetian empire.
Building: Off Campus Location
Location: Virtual
Event Type: Workshop / Seminar
Tags: Environment, Europe, history
Source: Happening @ Michigan from Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS)