On Thursday, December 3 at 6 pm, Dr. Peter Schertz (Jack and Mary Ann Frable Curator of Ancient Art at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts) will give a behind-the-scenes curator’s talk about the exhibition currently on view at the VMFA, through 18 January 2021.

Register here for the Zoom webinar

This free webinar presentation is co-sponsored by the AIA Richmond Society and the University of Richmond Department of Classical Studies.

For more information about the Sunken Cities exhibition at the VMFA, see https://www.vmfa.museum/exhibitions/exhibitions/treasures-ancient-egypt/

Several of our members will be speaking in the “Lunch Break Science” series at the Science Museum of Virginia this summer, in connection with the special exhibition of Pompeii: The Immortal City (on view through Sept. 3):

Wed., July 10 – “Roman Dining, from Eggs to Apples” (Dr. Elizabeth Baughan, University of Richmond)

Wed., July 31 – “Making the Old New Again: New Technologies to Understand Ancient Art” (Dr. Peter Schertz, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts”)

Wed., August 7 – “Health and Disease in Pompeii” (Dr. Julie Laskaris, University of Richmond)

The lectures are free, noon – 1 pm. For more information and the full schedule (including several other archaeological topics), click here.

Terracotta warriors have arrived in Richmond! “Terracotta Army: Legacy of the First Emperor of China” is now underway at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and is well worth a visit. In addition to the lifesized warrior sculptures, this special exhibit includes many other artifacts from the tomb complex of Qin Shi Huang and from other ancient Chinese burial contexts.

Our next AIA Richmond Society lecture will explore the legacy of this first terracotta army in the long tradition of clay armies that followed during the Han dynasty and will consider what these model armies reveal about warfare and politics in ancient China. On Thursday, February 1, 2018, Dr. Allison Miller (Southwestern University) will present “Terracotta Warriors after the First Emperor: Re-evaluating the Qin Legacy in the Han.”

The lecture will be free and open to the public and will begin at 6 pm in Jepson Hall, room 118, on the campus of the University of Richmond. For directions and parking information, click here. Jepson Hall is #17 on the campus map. Visitor parking is available after 5 pm in all lots. For Google Map or GPS directions, use 37.578540, -77.537278.