Published Horst Gerson Lectures

• All published Horst Gerson Lectures can also be found on the online publishing platform of the University of Groningen Press: http://books.ugp.rug.nl        

• Monika Wagner, On the Afterlife of Things in Artworks: Doris Salcedo’s Atrabiliarios and Other Contact Relics (The Twenty-first Gerson Lecture, held on 12 October 2023)
  
• Horst Bredekamp, Art History and Prehistoric Art: Rethinking their Relationship in the Light of New Obeservations. (The Twentieth Gerson Lecture, held on 4 October 2019).
  
• Ivan Gaskell, Everything or Nothing, What Do University Museums Know? (The Nineteenth Gerson Lecture, held on 6 October 2017). ISBN/EAN 978-90-821290-2-1      
  
• James Cuno, ISIS and the Threat to Our Cultural Heritage: What Can the World Do? A Five-Point Proposal (The Eighteenth Gerson Lecture, held on 8 October 2015). ISBN/EAN 978-90-821290-1-4
  
• Alexander Nagel, Some Discoveries of 1492: Eastern Antiquities and Renaissance Europe (The Seventeenth Gerson Lecture, held on 14 November 2013). ISBN/EAN 978-90-821290-0-7
  

• Petra ten-Doesschate Chu, Eye, Memory, Hand: The Nineteenth-century Debate About the Role of Visual Memory in the Creative Process (The Sixteenth Gerson Lecture, held on 10 November 2011). ISBN/EAN 978-90-801691-0-4
  

• Elizabeth McGrath, Jordaens, Psyche and the Abbot: Myth, Decorum and Italian Manners in Seventeenth-Century Antwerp (The Fifteenth Gerson Lecture, held on 12 November 2009). ISBN/EAN 978-90-801691-9-7
  

• Patricia L. Rubin, Portraits by the Artist as a Young Man: Parmigianino ca. 1523-24(The Fourteenth Gerson Lecture, held on 22 November 2007). ISBN/EAN 978-90-801691-8-0
  

• Ingrid D. Rowland, The Roman Garden of Agostino Chigi (The Thirteenth Gerson Lecture, held on 17 November 2005). ISBN-10: 90-8016917X / ISBN-13: 978-90-801691-7-3
  

• Walter S. Gibson, The Art of Laughter in the Age of Bruegel (The Twelfth Gerson Lecture, held on 20 November 2003). ISBN 90-801691-6-1
  

• Jennifer Montagu, The Aesthetics of Roman Eighteenth-Century Sculpture: ‘Late Baroque’, ‘Barochetto’ or ‘A Discrete Art Historical Period’? (The Eleventh Gerson Lecture, held on 8 November 2001). ISBN 90-6801-816-7
  

• Henk van Os, The Power of Memory (The Tenth Gerson Lecture, held on 19 November 1999). ISBN 90-6801-654-7
  

• Philipp Fehl, Sprezzatura and the Art of Painting Finely: Open-ended Narration in Paintings by Apelles, Raphael, Michelangelo, Titian, Rembrandt and Ter Borch (The Ninth Gerson Lecture, held on 6 November 1997). ISBN 90-801691-5-3
  

• Neil MacGregor, ‘To the Happier Carpenter’: Rembrandt’s War-Heroine Margaretha de Geer, the London Public and the Right to Pictures (The Eighth Gerson Lecture, held on 9 November 1995). ISBN 90-801691-4-5
  

• Martin Warnke, ‘Laudando Praecipere’: Der Medicizyklus des Peter Paul Rubens (The Seventh Gerson Lecture, held on 18 November 1993). ISBN 90-801691-1-0
  

• Linda Nochlin, Bathtime: Renoir, Cezanne, Daumier and the Practices of Bathing in Nineteenth-Century France (The Sixth Gerson Lecture, held on 21 November 1991). No ISBN
  

• Egbert Haverkamp Begeman, Rembrandt: The Holy Family, St. Petersburg (The Fifth Gerson Lecture, held on 16 November 1989). ISBN 90-801691-3-7
  

• Andrew Martindale, Heroes, Ancestors, Relatives and the Birth of the Portrait (The Fourth Gerson Lecture, held on 26 May 1988). ISBN 90-6179-069-7
  

• Craig H. Smyth, Repatriation of Art from the Collecting Point in Munich after World War II (The Third Gerson Lecture, held on 13 March 1986). ISBN 90-6179-063-8
  

• David Freedberg, Iconoclasts and their Motives (The Second Gerson Lecture, held on 7 October 1983). ISBN 90-6179-056-5
  

• Horst W. Janson, Form Follows Function, or Does It? Modernist Design Theory and the History of Art (The First Gerson Lecture, held on 2 October 1981). ISBN 90-6179-054-9