Terry K. Simmons Lecture

 Itō Jakuchu’s Colorful Realm of Living Beings
The Art of the Future: Itō Jakuchu’s Colorful Realm of Living Beings  
lecture by Yukio Lippit, Harvard University

An annual lecture in art history, supported by the Terry K. Simmons Fund. The inaugural lecture was presented in 2013-2014.

From Buddhist Reliquaries to Navigational Aids: Stupas in Maritime East Asia, ca. 900–1300,  Hsueh-man Shen, Institute of Fine Arts New York University | April 17, 2024

Pages, Plaster, and Computer Screens: Reimagining Raphael and the Library of Julius II, Lisa Pon & Tracy Cosgriff | March 13, 2023

Adapt, Reject, and Remix: Ethiopian Christian Art in the Early Modern Era  Kristen Windmuller-Luna, Curator of African Art, Cleveland Museum of Art, March 14, 2022

Acts of Translation: Black Artists and "The Song of Hiawatha," Anna Arabindan-Kesson, Princeton University, February 2, 2021

Ritual, Gender, and Narrative in Late Medieval Italy, Anne Derbes, Professor Emerita, Hood College, Wednesday November 11, 2020

The Materiality of Insurgency in the Colonial Andes, a lecture by Ananda Cohen-Aponte, Associate Professor of History of Art, Cornell University | Thursday, October 29, 2020

The Apocalypse of the Duc de Berry and the Apocalyptic Great Schism, lecture by Richard K. Emmerson, Visiting Distinguished Professor, Florida State University, Thursday, February 27, 2020

Monet's Water Lilies: Seeing with the Body, a lecture by Dr. James H. Rubin, Professor of Art History, The State University of New York at Stony Brook, Thursday, March 1, 2018

A Tale of Many Cities: the Serapeion at Ephesus and Politics in the Roman Empire | lecture by Alexander Sokolicek, Austrian Archaeological Institute | Thursday, November 7, 2017

Inside Out: Internal Anatomy in Michelangelo’s Art | lecture by Christian Kleinbub, Ohio State University | Tuesday, October 24, 2017

The Art of the Future: Itō Jakuchu’s Colorful Realm of Living Beings | lecture by Yukio Lippit, Harvard University | Tuesday March 8, 2014

The Death of Tenochtitlan, the life of Mexico City: Transformations of a 16th-Century Capital | lecture by Barbara K. Mundy, Fordham University | Tuesday, September 10, 2013