Picturing Shakespeare Symposium

[Kathy Chung]

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Picturing Shakespeare
An Interdisciplinary Symposium
15-16 November 2002, University of Toronto
http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~reed/picturingshakespeare

The recent discovery of the Sanders Portrait in Canada has intrigued many
with the question: is this a portrait of Shakespeare, painted in 1603, as
the family tradition of the owners contends? When the portrait was put on
display at the Art Gallery of Ontario in June 2001, the most frequent
comment from the thousands of visitors who saw it was that the viewer
really wanted this image to be that of William Shakespeare. Why?

The two-day Picturing Shakespeare Symposium, and it's accompanying public
lecture, brings together Canadian and international scholars from many
disciplines: art, theatre and costume historians, palaeographers,
scientists, genealogists, and others to explore issues of public and
scholarly interest generated by the Sanders Portrait.  Topics of discussion
include: the nature of historical evidence, the materials testing and
dating of the portrait, the visual representations of Shakespeare, the
history of Elizabethan theatre and portraiture, palaeography, and
genealogy.  The Sanders Portrait will also be on view at the University Art
Centre during the symposium.

This symposium is sponsored by the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Records of
Early English Drama, and the University of Toronto Art Centre.

For further information, programme details, and registration instructions,
please see our web site
at:  http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~reed/picturingshakespeare or contact us at:

         Picturing Shakespeare Symposium
         c/o Records of Early English Drama
         University of Toronto
         150 Charles Street West, Room 118
         Toronto, Ontario
         Canada  M5S 1K9
         Tel: (416) 585-4504  Fax: (416) 813-4093
         Email: kchung at chass.utoronto.ca
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