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2010

Lectures

Tuesday 23 February 13：00－15：30: Libby Horner
“Brangwyn the Polymath”; Brian Clarkecanceled
“Brangwyn and Architectonics”
Due to a change in his plans, lecturer Brian Clark will not be traveling to Japan at this time. The lecture by Libby Horner will start at 13:00 on the 23rd and is scheduled to finish at 14:30.
Saturday 27 March 14：00－15：30: Mina Oya (Curator, NMWA)
“Brangwyn and Architectural Decoration: Towards the Kyoraku Bijutsukan Project”
Saturday 17 April 14：00－15：30: Joichiro Kawamura (Professor Emeritus, Graduate School of Language and Society , Hitotsubashi University)
“From Illustrated Books to Murals: Fin de Siecle Aesthetic Living Spaces and Brangwyn”
Saturday 22 May 14：00－15：30: Tim Barringer(Professor, Yale University)
“Frank Brangwyn: Labour, Masculinity and History Painting”

2009

Saturday 10 October 14:00 – 15:30: Masanori Aoyagi (Director, NMWA)
"Augustus and the Birth of the Roman Empire"
Saturday 24 October 14:00 – 15:30: Kyoko Haga (Associate Professor, Graduate School of Tohoku University)
"Greek Art and the Romans"
Saturday 14 November 14:00 – 15:30: Norio Matsumoto (Professor Emeritus, Tohoku University)
"The Glorious Roman Empire"
Saturday 28 November 14:00 – 15:30: Mitsumasa Takanashi (Curator, NMWA)
"Painted Images of Ancient Rome: Interpreting History Paintings"

In honor of the opening of the L'eredità dell'Impero romano exhibition, specialists will gather for a symposium on the topic of "The Augustan World Strategy"

Date/Time: Saturday 19 September, 13:30 – 16:00 (doors open at 13:00)

Location: Auditorium (B2F), National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo

Panelists:
1. Rosaria Ciardiello（Universita degli Studi Suor Orsola Benincasa, Napoli）
2. Lucrezia Ungaro (Director, Museo dei Fori Imperiali)
3. Umberto Pappalardo（Professor, Universita Suor Orsola Benincasa, Napoli）
4. Masanori Aoyagi (Director, National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo)

To be presented in Italian and Japanese, with simultaneous interpretation between the two languages.

This lecture series will consider the NMWA Main Building and Le Corbusier himself from various angles.

Saturday 6 June 14:00 - 15:30: Yoshiyuki Yamana (Associate Professor, Tokyo University of Science)
"Le Corbusier's “Museum of Unlimited Extension” Concept: From the Mundanaeum to The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo"
Saturday 13 June 14:00 - 15:30: Kazuyo Sejima (Architect)
"Le Corbusier's Museums and Art Museum Architecture" canceled
Saturday 20 June 14:00 - 15:30: Hiroshi Matsukuma (Professor, Kyoto Institute of Technology)
"Le Corbusier and Modern Japanese Architecture"
Saturday 27 June 14:00 - 15:30: Misa Hayashi (Curator, Galerie Taisei)
"Le Corbusier's Walls"
Saturday 4 July 14:00 - 15:30: Makoto Yokomizo (Architect)
"The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo and Ueno Park"

Lectures (in Japanese)

Saturday 18 July 14:00 – 15:30: "The Other Self and Memory”
Chihiro Minato (Professor, Tama Art University)
Saturday 25 July 14:00 – 15:30: “The Aesthetics of "Utsushi (Copying)": The myth of 'original' images”
Atsushi Tanigawa (Professor, Kokugakuin University)
Saturday 1 August 14:00 – 15:30: "The Morphology of Sentiment: Deciphering Aby Warburg's 'Mnemosyne' "
Jun Tanaka (Associate Professor, Graduate School of Tokyo University)

Lecture

Saturday 28 February 2009 14:00 – 15:30: “Revolution in a Classicist Age: For a New ‘Golden Age’”
Blaise Ducos (Curator, Painting Department, Louvre)
Saturday 7 March 2009 14:00 – 15:30: “Asian Goods that Made their Way to 17th Century Europe”
Haneda Masashi (Professor, Tokyo University)
Saturday 4 April 2009 14:00 – 15:30: “The Poet Marino and the Printmaker Brio: Various Issues Related to Poussin and his Early Works”
Kimura Saburo (Professor, Nihon University)
Saturday 25 April 2009 14:00 – 15:30: “Rome, Fatherland of the Myriad: The Role of Rome in 17th Century Arts”
Ishinabe Masumi (Professor, Seijo University)
Saturday 16 May 2009 14:00 – 15:30: The Ins and Outs of 17th Century Dutch Painting”
Kofuku Akira (Senior Curator, NMWA)

2008

Lecture

30 September 2008 (Tues) 14:00 – 15:30: "Hammershøi’s Influence on the Films of Carl Theodor Dreyer"
Anne-Birgitte Fonsmark, Director of the Ordrupgaard Museum, Copenhagen
4 October 2008 (Sat.) 14:00-15:30: "Hammershøi and Symbolism"
Felix Krämer, Chief Curator of the 19th Century and Classic Modern Painting and Sculpture Collection, Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main
22 October 2008 (Sat.) 14:00-15:30: "Nineteenth Century Denmark: As Told by the Woman in the Black Dress"
Tanabe Uta (Associate Professor, Research Institute for World Languages, Osaka University)

Lecture

June 14 (Sat.) 14:00 - 15:30: "Corot: A Musical Conception of Painting"
Vincent Pomarède (Senior Curator, Director of the Department of Paintings, Musée du Louvre)
Takahashi Akiya (Director, Mitsubishi Ichigokan Museum, Tokyo; Guest Researcher, National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo)
*This lecture was given in French with translation into Japanese.
July 6 (Sun.) 14:00 – 15:30: "Corot and the Japanese: History of Japan’s Reception of Corot and Collection Activities in Japan"
Ide Yoichiro (Professor, Tokyo Junshin Women’s College)
July 27 (Sun.) 14:00 – 15:30: "Corot: The Embodiment of 19th Century Art"
Takahashi Akiya (Director, Mitsubishi Ichigokan Museum, Tokyo; Guest Researcher, National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo)
August 3 (Sun.) 14:00-15:30: "The Figure Paintings by the Landscape Painter Corot"
Oki Yukiko (Instructor, Teikyo Heisei University)

Lecture

March 4 (Tues) 14:00 - 15:30: "Florence Museums Association: A Museum at the Crossroads of Tradition and the Future"
Christina Acidini (Superintendent, Florence Museums Association)
March 15 (Sat.) 14:00 - 15:30: "Reclining Nudes in Ancient Art"
Haga Kyoko (Associate Professor, Tohoku University)
April 12 (Sat.) 14:00 - 15:30: "Venus in Italian Literature and Those around Her"
Ura Shoichi (Associate Professor, Tokyo University)
April 19 (Sat.) 14:00 - 15:30: "From Olympia to Venus of Urbino: Modern Painting and Tradition"
Miura Atsushi (Professor, Tokyo University)
May 10 (Sat.) 14:00 - 15:30: "Venus as Portrayed in Renaissance Art: Focusing on Venus of Urbino"
Watanabe Shinsuke (Curator, NMWA)

International Symposium

March 29 (Sat.) 10:00-18:00 (proposed): "Erotic Art in the Renaissance: Iconography and Function "
Please click here for details on the symposium (in Japanese only).