Larry Silver, the Farquhar Professor of Art History at Penn, named a 2015 Phi Beta Kappa Scholar

Larry Silver, the Farquhar Professor of Art History at Penn, has been named a 2015 Phi Beta Kappa Scholar. As part of the award, he will visit eight campuses during the academic year, presenting public lectures and visiting classes.

Dr. Silver will visit McDaniel College in Westminster, Maryland; the University of Maine in Orono, Maine; Colorado College in Colorado Springs, Colorado; Beloit College in Beloit, Wisconsin; the University of Illinois at Urbana—Champaign; Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina; and Grinnell College in Grinnell, Iowa. His lectures will include “India Ink: Europe’s Earliest Views of the Subcontinent;” “Dutch Global Horizons;” “New Jerusalem: Rembrandt, Amsterdam and Religion;” “Marked and Modern: 20th-Century Jewish Artists” and “Formation of the Habsburg Empire.”

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