Assoc ProfessorPhilip Cottrell

This award “celebrates the role of supervisors and mentors in supporting and sustaining the Irish research community”

Member

Leonardo Visits University College Dublin - interdisciplinary symposium at the O’Brien Centre for Science, Belfield, UCD.

Public lecture given at Edenderry Public Library

'The Age of Titian: Venice's Oldest Old Master' - public lecture at the National Gallery of Ireland and organised by the Humanities Institute of Ireland as part of the Debating Ageing series of public lectures.

Public lecture at the National Gallery of Ireland in association with the exhibition Canaletto and the Art of Venice

Winter Seminar: The Lives of Artists - Temple Bar Gallery in Conjunction with the National Gallery of Ireland. Chaired by Patrick T Murphy, this interdisciplinary panel, including Ronan McCrea (artist), Caoimhe Kilfeather (artist), Eithne Jordan (artist), art historian Philip Cottrell (UCD, Art History) and psychologist Ciaran Benson (Professor Emeritus of Psychology, UCD), will reflect in conversation on the following questions: The Renaissance versus the Contemporary, what has changed? What drives artists to make work? Who are artists making work for? What mediums do artists work in and why? Why are we so interested in the stories of artists? What makes an artist?

External Academic Examiner

‘The Portrayal of Death and Dying in the Coetivy Hours and in Renaissance Art’, Friends of the Chester Beatty Library, 29 August 2018 - in association with the Exhibition of the Coetivy Hours.

Arts/ Art History Careers Workshop: as UCD Art History MA Director in conjunction with my successor in the role Dr Conor Lucey, I co-organised an event aimed at art history undergraduates involving the following guest speakers: Myles Campbell (Collections and Research OPW); Pat Cooke (Director, UCD Cultural Policy MA); Estelle Gittins (Manuscripts & Archives, Trinity College Dublin); Joanne Drum (Education Officer, National Gallery of Ireland).

'Canaletto and the Art of Venice': UCD/ NGI Third-Level Study Day. In association with UCD Access and Lifelong Learning and the National Gallery of Ireland I organised a third-level academic study day/ conference designed to complement the international exhibition 'Canaletto and the Art of Venice'. Pitched at third-level students of art history and related studies, but also open to the general public, this event included lectures by Rosie Razzall of the Royal Collection, UK, Adrian Le Harivel of the National Gallery of Ireland, and Dr Nicola Figgis of UCD School of Art History and Cultural Policy.

External examiner on the PhD thesis 'From Cyprus to Venice: Art, exchange and exile across the Renaissance Mediterranean' by Georgios Markou.

Arts/ Art History Careers Workshop: as UCD Art History MA Director I hosted an event aimed at art history undergraduates involving the following guest speakers: Pat Cooke (Director, UCD Cultural Policy MA); Estelle Gittins (Manuscripts & Archives, Trinity College Dublin); Dr Sarah Wilson (National Gallery of Ireland).

'Caravaggio and Caravaggism': UCD/ NGI Third-Level Study Day. In association with the National Gallery of Ireland and UCD Access and Lifelong Learning I co-organised a third-level academic study day/ conference designed to complement the international exhibition 'Beyond Caravaggio'. Pitched at third-level students of art history and related studies, but also open to the general public, this event included lectures by the leading Caravaggio scholar Dr Helen Langdon, Adrian Le Harivel (National Gallery of Ireland) and Dr John Loughman (UCD School of Art History & Cultural Policy).

Radio broadcast: interviewed as part of Newstalk's 'Talking History' edition devoted to Caravaggio, 4th March 2017.

Paintings & Drawings from Russborough House - conference to discuss the fate of old master paintings and drawings at Russborough House, Co Wicklow. Other speakers included: Ciaran Woods (independent scholar, Dublin); Pat Cooke (UCD School of Art History & Cultural Policy); William Laffan (art dealer and art historian, Dublin); Fiona Healy (Rubenianum - The Research Institute for Flemish Art of the 16th and 17th Centuries, Antwerp); Jane MacAvock (Ecole du Louvre, Paris); Adrian Le Harivel (National Gallery of Ireland); John Loughman (UCD School of Art History)

'In the midst of life we are in death' - Death Burial and the Afterlife in the Arts and Humanities Conference. Along with Wolfgang Marx (UCD School of Music), Judith Devlin (UCD School of History), and Siobhan Donovan (UCD School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics), I was a member of the organising committee.

public lecture at the National Gallery of Ireland in association with the Leonardo Drawings from the Royal Collection Exhibition at the National Gallery of Ireland

Arts/ Art History Careers Workshop: as UCD Art History MA Director I organised and hosted an event aimed at art history undergraduates involving the following guest speakers: Sheena Barrett (Arts Officer, Dublin City Council); Adelle Hughes (Associate Director, Whyte's Auctioneers); Dr Sarah Wilson (National Gallery of Ireland); Pat Cooke (Director, UCD Cultural Policy MA).

Public lecture at the National Gallery of Ireland

To support a collaborative project with the National Portrait Gallery, London, to develop an online database devoted to the unpublished sketchbooks of the 19thc connoisseur and curator George Scharf (1820-1895).

To support a collaborative project with the National Portrait Gallery, London - compilation of a database devoted to the unpublished sketchbooks of the 19thc connoisseur and curator Sir George Scharf (1820-1895).