Sunday 3 August 2008: the most beautiful weather in Berlin and ECLA students just can’t get enough food for thought. Art historian Aya Soika gave ISU 2008 students a tour of the Gemäldegalerie focusing on the week’s themes: religion, violence, martyrdom. Situated in the Kulturforum, west of Potsdamer Platz, the Gemäldegalerie hosts two kilometers of
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Stefano Evangelista on Walter Pater
On 13 February Dr. Stefano Evangelista of Trinity College, Oxford, presented an inspiring guest lecture on Walter Pater’s vision of the Renaissance as a state of mind. Walter Pater (1839 – 1894) was an English art and literary critic at Oxford. Although he was a shy and peaceful man, his book The Renaissance, Studies in