Ellen Sharman (University of Oxford): 'Making Masculinity in Roman Villa Gardens: terraces, frescoes, and fountains, c.1550-1600'
Ellen Sharman
is a DPhil student at Oxford University and is currently researching the relationship between elite masculinity and gardening culture in 16th century Rome. Her work explores the ways in which gender shapes and is shaped by landscapes, and how this enables gardens to be read as critical spaces in which power is contested. She has published on the role of masculinity in the gardens of Cardinal Ippolito II d’Este at Villa d’Este, and beyond the Early Modern period, as well as on the subject of the post-war masculinity crisis in the James Bond novels.
This event is part of the series A Material World: Gender, which brings together academics and heritage professionals from a wide range of disciplines to discuss issues concerning historical objects, their materials, forms, and functions, as well as their conservation, presentation, display, and reconstruction.
Organisers: Rembrandt Duits (Deputy Curator, The Photographic Collection, The Warburg Institute) and Louisa McKenzie (The Warburg Institute).
All sessions during 2023-2024 will be delivered online.
FREE VIA ZOOM WITH ADVANCE BOOKING
image: photograph ©️ Gordon Plumb