[MR] Art, fashion, textiles at UNC CH this week

[Marybeth Lavrakas]

Talks to feature art, fashion, textiles of 
early Europe   

 
Art, fashion and textiles in early modern Europe are the focus of two free 
public lectures at the Hanes Art Center at the University of North Carolina at 
Chapel Hill.

The talks are part of the Bettie Allison Rand Lecture Series, sponsored by 
the art department in UNC’s College 
of Arts and Sciences. Both will be in the auditorium of the art center, located 
on South Columbia Street between Franklin Street and Cameron Avenue.

Paul Hills, a professor at the Courtauld Institute of Art in London, will 
discuss “Disclosure and Concealment in the Art of Lorenzo Lotto” on Sept. 29 at 
8 p.m. Birgitt Borkopp-Restle, a professor at the University of Berne in 
Switzerland, will discuss “Brilliant Appearances: Spanish Court Costume and its 
Pictorial Representation,” on Nov. 17 at 5:30 p.m.

Hills has written publications about color, Italian Renaissance art and the 
poet and painter David Jones. He has lectured on Renaissance art at 
international venues, including Harvard University, the Louvre Museum and the 
National Gallery in London. Lorenzo Lotto, the topic of Hills’ talk, was a 
16th-century painter who used drapery and clothes both to disclose and 
conceal.

Borkopp-Restle directs the Institute for Art History at the University of 
Bern. From 2005 to 2008, she directed the Museum for Applied Art in Cologne, 
Germany. She has organized exhibitions of textile arts and other kinds of 
handicrafts.

William G. Rand of Raleigh, a 1952 Carolina alumnus, established the Bettie 
Allison Rand Lectures in Art History in 1994 in memory of his wife. The 
endowment allows the art department to bring eminent art historians to UNC.
Image: Portrait of Andrea Odoni, 1527, oil on canvas, by 
Lorenzo Lotto (collection of Queen Elizabeth II), whose work will be discussed 
Sept. 29 at UNC: http://uncnews.unc.edu/images/stories/news/arts/2011/hills_paulrandlecturelorenzo_lotto_1527_andrea_odoni.jpg