New Directions in Early Modern European Art: The Aso O. Tavitian Collection Symposium
Friday, October 2, 2026
10 am

Join an international group of scholars for a symposium in honor of the Aso O. Tavitian Collection gift to the Clark. Organized in conjunction with the exhibition An Exquisite Eye: Introducing the Aso O. Tavitian Collection, this one-day gathering explores current scholarship on early modern European art.

The Clark welcomes the following speakers:

Etienne Bréton, Saint Honoré Art Consulting
Lisa Ellis, Conservator, Sculpture and Decorative Arts, Art Gallery of Ontario
Caroline Fowler, Starr Director of the Research and Academic Program, Clark Art Institute
Dennis Geronimus, Professor of Renaissance Art History, New York University
Sarah Grandin, Lecturer in the Arts of Early Modern France, The Courtauld Institute of Art
Nicholas Hall, Nicholas Hall Ltd.
Stuart Lochhead, Stuart Lochhead Sculpture
Olivier Meslay, Professor, École du Louvre
Paris Spies-Gans, Art Historian and Writer
Lara Yeager-Crasselt, Aso O. Tavitian Curator of Early Modern European Painting and Sculpture, Clark Art Institute

Free and open to scholars and the public. A 9:30 am reception in the Manton Research Center reading room precedes the event.

Find the complete schedule here.

This symposium is generously supported by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation.

Image: Jacopo da Pontormo (Jacopo Carucci), Portrait of a Boy (detail), c. 1535–40, oil on fired tile. The Clark, Gift of Aso O. Tavitian Foundation, 2025.1.12

New Directions in Early Modern European Art: The Aso O. Tavitian Collection Symposium
Friday, October 2, 2026
10 am

Join an international group of scholars for a symposium in honor of the Aso O. Tavitian Collection gift to the Clark. Organized in conjunction with the exhibition An Exquisite Eye: Introducing the Aso O. Tavitian Collection, this one-day gathering explores current scholarship on early modern European art.

The Clark welcomes the following speakers:

Etienne Bréton, Saint Honoré Art Consulting
Lisa Ellis, Conservator, Sculpture and Decorative Arts, Art Gallery of Ontario
Caroline Fowler, Starr Director of the Research and Academic Program, Clark Art Institute
Dennis Geronimus, Professor of Renaissance Art History, New York University
Sarah Grandin, Lecturer in the Arts of Early Modern France, The Courtauld Institute of Art
Nicholas Hall, Nicholas Hall Ltd.
Stuart Lochhead, Stuart Lochhead Sculpture
Olivier Meslay, Professor, École du Louvre
Paris Spies-Gans, Art Historian and Writer
Lara Yeager-Crasselt, Aso O. Tavitian Curator of Early Modern European Painting and Sculpture, Clark Art Institute

Free and open to scholars and the public. A 9:30 am reception in the Manton Research Center reading room precedes the event.

Find the complete schedule here.

This symposium is generously supported by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation.

Image: Jacopo da Pontormo (Jacopo Carucci), Portrait of a Boy (detail), c. 1535–40, oil on fired tile. The Clark, Gift of Aso O. Tavitian Foundation, 2025.1.12