Architectural Ornaments | Athens | February 16

The Gennadius Library at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens is organizing the 35th annual lecture in honor of Francis R. Walton on Tuesday, February 16. The event features Professor Dr Gerhard Wolf, director of the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max Planck Institute, who will deliver a lecture on “The Peacock and the Basket, the Marble and the Brick: Architectural Ornaments and their Materiality in a Transcultural Perspective – Constantinople to Bukhara (6th to 10th Century).” The lecture is set to start at 7 p.m. at Cotsen Hall (9 Anapiron Polemou).

American School of Classical Studies, 61 Souidias, tel 210.721.0536, www.gennadius.gr