Sessions Sponsored by the Italian Art Society

Session Title: Beyond Texts and Academies: Rethinking the Education of the Early Modern Italian Artist
Washington 1, Exhibition Level
Friday, February 5, 2016, 9:30am-12:00pm
Organizer and Chair: Jesse Locker, Portland State University
Speakers/Papers:
James Hutson, Lindenwood University, “Li pittori parlano con l’opere: Poetry and Practice in the Academic Tradition”
Kim Butler Wingfield, American University, “Imitation and Assimilation: Raphael as Court Artist”
Sarah Blake McHam, Rutgers University, “Piero di Cosimo: A Puzzling Case of an Unlearned Artist Creating Learned Art”
Jessica Boehman, LaGuardia Community College, “Ercole Ferrata’s Studio as Rome’s Sculpture School”
Lara Yeager-Crasselt, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, “Practice and Patronage in the Roman Palace: The Education of Artists under Camillo Pamphilj”

Session Title: Rethinking the Rhetoric and Force of Images
Maryland Suite, Lobby Level
Friday, February 5, 2016, 12:30-2:00pm (Short Session)
Organizers and Chairs: Robert Williams, UC Santa Barbara, and Anna Marazuela Kim, Courtauld Institute of Art
Speakers/Papers:
Klaus Krüger, Freie Universität Berlin, “The Evidence of Images”
Jeanette Kohl, UC Riverside, “Truth and Presence: the Power of Portraits in Renaissance Italy”
Marius Hauknes, John Hopkins University, “The Phenomenology of the Mural”
Nicola Suthor, Yale University, “Why Phenomenology Matters: Husserl’s ‘Fantasy, Image-Consciousness, and Memory’”