by Davide Salvo | Apr 22, 2022 | Faculty
Students in Desire and Conquest: Urban Landscapes of Old Spain (Honors 340), taught by Margaret Stefanski, PhD, professor, Modern Languages, Literatures & Cultures and Davide Salvo, adjunct professor, Classics Department, participated in a virtual group tour at the Met Cloisters.
The students had the opportunity to see various examples of Romanesque architecture and art; such as the apse of San Martín de Fuentidueña, artifacts from the recent exhibition “Spain 1000-1200. Art at the Frontiers of Faith”, illuminated manuscripts of the Hebrew Bible, an Islamic ivory pyxis with animals from Madinat al -Zahra and a fresco depicting a camel from the Monastery of Sant Baudelio de Berlanga.
Submitted by: Davide Salvo, adjunct professor, Classics Department
by Davide Salvo | Apr 4, 2022 | Faculty
Students in Honors 340. Desire and Conquest: Urban Landscapes of Old Spain, taught by Dr. Margaret Stefanski and Dr. Davide Salvo, participated in a virtual group tour at the Corning Museum of Glass https://home.cmog.org/
The students had the opportunity to see the permanent exhibitions of Roman and Islamic glass.
Katherine Larson, the curator of the Ancient Glass collection, answered several questions asked by students regarding the process of glass making, the diffusion and use of glass in the Roman Empire and Islamic World, the colors of glass, etc. Yvonne Widenor facilitated the contacts with the Museum.
Submitted by: Davide Salvo, adjunct professor, Classics
by Davide Salvo | Apr 4, 2022 | Faculty
Canisius College presents a talk by archaeologist Alessandro Sebastiani, PhD, on Thursday, April 7, 2022 at 6:00 p.m in Regis Room.
His talk, which is free and open to the public, is titled “Ideology and Archeology between the Third Rome and Mussolini’s Propaganda.”
The event, sponsored by the Department of History and ArtsCanisius, will also be livestreamed here.
Submitted by: Davide Salvo, adjunct professor, Classics
