For Immediate Release						April 30, 1996
 
Lawrence University Fine Arts Lecture Looks at Study of Romanesque Sculpture 
 
 
	APPLETON, WIS. - Marilyn Schmidt, program manager at the Getty Art
History Information Program in Santa Monica, Calif., will offer alternatives to
the ways in which scholars have traditionally studied Romanesque sculpture in a
Lawrence University Fine Arts Colloquium Monday, May 6.  Schmidt's lecture/slide
presentation entitled, "Of Foliage and Saints and Styles and Time:  Reflections
on the Study of Romanesque Sculpture," at 4:15 p.m. in the Wriston Art Center
Auditorium, is free and open to the public. 
	In her lecture, Schmidt will examine some of the approaches 
traditionally used in the study of West European sculpture from the Romanesque
period (11th and 12th centuries) and some of the problems associated with those
approaches.   
	Prior to joining the Getty Art History Information Program in 1985,
Schmidt spent six years on the faculty of the University of Miami. She earned
her bachelor's degree at Lawrence in 1960 and her Ph.D. in art history at Yale
University, In 1995, Schmidt was appointed to the Lawrence University Board of
Trustees.   
 
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