Marion Chair Installation

Fordham University is pleased to announce the appointment of Nina Rowe as the John L. Marion Chair in Art History, Painting, and Sculpture and requests the pleasure of your company at the installation ceremony and lecture.

Lecture:
Dancing and Dalliance: Picturing Revelry in the Late Middle Ages

In 15th-century Germany, dancing was cause for celebration and concern. Poets crafted accounts of boisterous roundelays, while Christian moralists and city administrators sought to rein in the hip-shaking and vigorous twirls of new dance moves. Images of dancing abound in illuminations, wall paintings, sculptures, and prints made for urban audiences, but until now such works have been little explored by scholars. This lecture considers images of dance parties and performers, exploring the ways in which art in the late Middle Ages could be deployed to rein in, but also inspire, footloose fun.