Selected

PAPERS

Dr Valerie Shrimplin

 
2025
May, 'Cosmological and Astronomical Symbolism in the works of Hildegard of Bingen' to be presented at the XIII Conference on the Inspiration of Astronomical Phenomena, Queens University Belfast, 8-14 May 2025 XIII.

 
2025
'Art and Belief: Images of Fire in Western Medieval Western Art (c 500-1500) invited contribution to The Elements in the Medieval World: Interdisciplinary Perspectives. Fire, eds. M. Cesario, H. Magennis, E. Ramazzina, Leiden:Brill, forthcoming

 
2025
'Domed Architecture as Image of the Universe' accepted for publication following the conference Attraversare il Tempo (Crossing Time), Ferrara, 23 May 2025

 
2025
'An English Romantic in Greece: Byron's Starry Skies', Proceedings of the XII Conference on the Inspiration of Astronomical Phenomena, Ionian University Corfu, Greece, Culture and Cosmos, in press

 
2025
Circles, Spheres and Globes: Models of the Universe as Depicted in Art', Proceedings of the XII Conference on the Inspiration of Astronomical Phenomena, Ionian University Corfu, Greece, in press, Culture and Cosmos

 
2024
20-25 May, XII Conference on the Inspiration of Astronomical Phenomena, Ionian University Corfu, Greece

 
2021
31 March (online), 'The Influence of Astronomy and Cosmology on Medieval Art,' Dept of History, Archaeology and Social Anthropology, University of Thessaly, Volos, Greece.

 
2021
March - Podcast on Heart Symbolism for Domestika Curious Minds

 
2021
16 February (online, postponed from March 2020) 'Giotto and the Early Italian Renaissance', Gresham College lecture

 
2017
Sir Thomas Gresham and his Vision for Gresham College, Book Launch, Gresham College.

 
2017
November, St Cross College Oxford, St Cross Centre for the History and Philosophy of Physics 'The Influence of Astronomy and the Cosmos on Medieval Art'

 
2006
April, Royal Astronomical Society National Astronomy Meeting (NAM), Leicester University, 'The Michelangelo Code: the artist, the astronomer and the Sistine chapel'

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Topics covered by Valerie Shrimplin range from visual images in art and cosmology to wider ‘art-historical detective work’ in Byzantine, Medieval and Renaissance Art History and the History of Ideas.
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