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DESCRIPTION:Event Name: Masterpiece Lecture Series: Vittoria Di Palma\, Ass
 ociate Professor\, Columbia University\nEvent Url: http://www.artsboston.o
 rg/event/detail/441523089/Masterpiece_Lecture_Series_Vittoria_Di_Palma_Ass
 ociate_Professor_Columbia_University\nEvent Date Begin: 2012-05-10\nEvent 
 Date End: 2012-05-10\n\nWhat does it mean to call a garden a masterpiece? 
 How is a garden like\, and unlike\, a work of art? Why might one want to d
 esign a garden so that it looks like a painting? The eighteenth-century pi
 cturesque garden engages with these sorts of questions by using painterly 
 devices to blur the relationship between nature and art. Framing\, composi
 tion\, perspective\, line\, color\, and chiaroscuro are deployed to provok
 e particular sensations and produce certain effects\, making the garden vi
 sitor acutely aware of the ubiquity of artifice\, and of the impossibility
  of experiencing nature free from a cultural frame.\n\nVittoria Di Palma\,
  Associate Professor in the Department of Art History and Archaeology\, Co
 lumbia University\, specializes in modern European architectural history a
 nd theory\, with a particular concentration on eighteenth-century architec
 ture and landscape. Her research focuses on connections between landscape 
 and epistemology\; ideas of the natural and the artificial\; and\, more br
 oadly\, brings art historical issues to bear upon architectural history\, 
 examining the ways in which visuality\, aesthetics\, and perception inform
  our understanding of buildings and environments.\n\nAfter receiving her P
 h.D. from Columbia University in 1999\, she spent 1999-2003 at the Archite
 ctural Association\, London\, where she was co-director of the Histories a
 nd Theories of Architecture graduate program. She then taught at Rice Univ
 ersity in Houston\, before returning to Columbia to join the faculty in 20
 04.\n\nThursday evening programming is supported in part by an award from 
 the National Endowment for the Arts. The Museum receives operating support
  from the Massachusetts Cultural Council. Media Sponsor: Boston Globe Medi
 a\, Inc.\n\nStart time: 7:00 p.m.
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SUMMARY:Masterpiece Lecture Series: Vittoria Di Palma\, Associate Professor
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