David  J. Roxburgh: Ethics and Aesthetics in Baysunghur’s Books

Location

PSU Art Building, Room 200 2000 SW Fifth Avenue Portland, 97201

Cost / Admission

Free

Contact

art-design@pdx.edu

The PSU School of Art + Design presents David J. Roxburgh, our inaugural Mary Ausplund Tooze Endowed Visiting Professor of Islamic & Ancient Art. Prof. Roxburgh is the Department Chair and Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Professor of Islamic Art History in the Department of History of Art + Architecture at Harvard University.

Lecture Title: “Ethics and Aesthetics in Baysunghur’s Books: Art and Literature in 15th-Century Herat”

Please join us after the lecture for a ceremony and reception celebrating the work of our amazing students as we present our annual Art History Research Project Prizes.

Free and open to the public.

Paid parking is available in the Art Building lot.

Please register here if you plan to attend, which will allow us to update you in case of any changes to the schedule.

Islamic painting: a group of four figures enjoy music while seated on a red carpet, a blue bird sits on a branch above the group.