Past Slade Lectures
1955 |
E.K. Waterhouse: ‘The Aftermath of the High Renaissance in Italian Painting’. |
1956 |
J.W. Pope Hennessy: ‘Italian Renaissance Sculpture’. |
1957 |
Douglas Cooper: ‘Revolutions in Art’. |
1958 |
Sir John Summerson: ‘Studies in English Architecture’. |
1959 |
Eric Newton: ‘The Creative Process in Painting’. |
1960 |
G. Zarnecki: ‘Romanesque Sculpture’. |
1961 |
Sir Kenneth Clark: ‘Motives’. |
1962 |
Sir Anthony Blunt: ‘Poussin’. |
1963 |
Dr T.S.R. Boase: ‘The Arts in the Crusading States’. |
1964 |
Professor Q.S. Bell: ‘Painting of the Victorian Age, ‘1837-1910’. |
1965 |
Professor Sir Leslie Martin: ‘The Building and the City (1900-65)’. |
1966 |
David Piper: ‘Portraits and History’. |
1967 |
Professor M. Schapiro: ‘Cubism and Abstract Painting’. |
1968 |
Professor N. Pevsner: ‘Writers on Architecture in the Nineteenth Century’. |
1969 |
F.J.B. Watson: ‘Craftsmanship and Society in Eighteenth Century France’. |
1970 |
Professor O. Kurz: ‘Islamic Art between East and West’. |
1971 |
Professor R. Rosenblum: ‘Aspects of the Northern Romantic Tradition in Modern Painting’, |
1972 |
Professor S. Slive: ‘Observations on Dutch Art and Society in the Seventeenth Century’ |
1973 |
Professor M. Sullivan: ‘Chinese Landscape painting: the Birth and Rebirth of a Tradition’. |
1974 |
M.D.K. Baxandall: ‘Art and Circumstances: High German Renaissance Sculpture’. |
1975 |
M. Girouard: ‘The Powerhouses: Changing Forms and Functions in the English Country-Houses, 1400-1930’. |
1976 |
H. Hibbard: ‘Caravaggio’. |
1977 |
R. Herbert: ‘The Social Iconography of Impressionism’. |
1978 |
J.G. Beckwith: ‘Early Medieval Art and the Imperial Ideal’. |
1979 |
Dr J. Mordaunt Crook: ‘Victorian Gothic: the Dilemma of Style’. |
1980 |
Dr N.R. Penny: ‘The Hero, the Sculptor and the Public’. |
1981 |
Professor J. Brown: ‘Velazquez and Art at the Court of Philip IV’. |
1982 |
J.F. Harris: ‘Neo-Palladian Architecture in England’. |
1983 |
D.A. Freedberg: ‘Images and People: Towards an analysis of the History of Response’. |
1984 |
Irving Lavin: ‘Sculptural Monuments of the Renaissance’. |
1985 |
Charles Hope: ‘Renaissance Art and its Meanings’. |
1986 |
John House: ‘Realism as Rhetoric in Nineteenth Century Painting’. |
1987 |
Henry Mayr-Harting: ‘Ottonian Manuscript Illumination: Art at the turn of the first Millennium’. |
1988-9 |
Alistair Rowan: ‘A Kind of Revolution: the Architecture of Robert and James Adam’. |
1989-90 |
Elizabeth McGrath: ‘Rubens and Ancient History’. |
1990-1 |
Jennifer Fletcher: ‘Face Value: Portraiture in Renaissance Venice’. |
1991-2 |
Michael Rogers: ‘Scholars and their source material: aspects of the History of Islamic Art’. |
1992-3 |
Kirk Varnedoe: ‘The Poverties of Postmodernism’. |
1993-4 |
Juliet Wilson-Bareau: ‘Goya: The Artist’s Hand and Mind’. |
1994-5 |
Sir Michael Levey ‘Painting in Renaissance Florence: Botticelli to Bronzio’. |
1995-6 |
John Richardson ‘Picasso and Cubism: a biographer’s view’. |
1996-7 |
David Bomford ‘Art and Uncertainty: Technical Studies, Art History and Conservation’. |
1997-8 |
Kathleen Weil Garris Brandt ‘Michelangelo at the Millennium’ |
1998-9 |
Joseph Connors ‘Boromini and Baroque Rome’ |
1999-2000 |
Robert Hewison ‘Ruskin To-day’ |
2000-1 |
Donald Preziosi ‘Seeing Through Art History’ |
2001-2 |
Charles Saumarez Smith (co-ordinator) ‘The State of the Museum’ |
2002-3 |
Ernst van de Wetering ‘Reconstructing Rembrandt’ |
2003-4 |
Craig Clunas ‘Empire of Great Brightness: Visual and Material Cultures of Ming China, 1368 –1644’ |
2004-5 |
Larry Schaaf ‘The Pencil of Nature – Creating the Art of Photography’ |
2005-6 |
Tom Phillips ‘Making Art Work: The Artist in the Studio’ |
2006-7 |
Paul Binski ‘English Art and Architecture before the Black Death’ |
2007-8 |
Alex Potts ‘Art and Non-Art/ Experiments in Modern Realism 1945-1965’ |
2008-9 |
Richard Thomson ‘Style versus the State: Naturalism and Avant-gardism in Third Republic France, 1880-1900’ |
2009-10 |
Dawn Ades ‘Surrealism and the avant-garde in Europe and the Americas’ |
2010-11 |
Zainab Bahrani ‘The Infinite Image: art and ontology in antiquity’ |
2011-12 |
Antony Cutler, ‘The Empire of Things: Gifts and Gift Exchange in Byzantium, Early Islam, and Beyond |
2012-13 |
Joseph Koerner, ‘Dream City Vienna’ |
2013-14 |
Tamar Garb, ‘Selves and Strangers: Photographic/Filmic Encounters in, of and from Southern Africa’ |
2014-15 |
Antony Griffiths, ‘The Print Before Photography: The European print in the age of the copper plate and wooden block’ |
2015-16 |
Wu Hung, ‘Feminine Space: An Untold Story of Chinese Pictorial Art’ |
2016-17 |
Caroline van Eck, ‘The Material Presence of Absent Antiquities: Collecting Excessive Objects and the Revival of the Past’ |
2017-18 |
David Ekserdjian, ‘From Drawing to Painting in the Italian Renaissance’ |
2018-19 |
Finbarr Barry Flood, ‘Islam and Image: Beyond Aniconism and Iconoclasm’ |
2019-20 |
Karen Lang, ‘Philip Guston (1913-1980). History and the Art of Painting’. |