Sessions Sponsored by the Italian Art Society

Session Title: Digital Reconstructions: Italian Buildings and their Decorations
Organizers: Kaelin Jewell, Temple University, and Amy Gillette, St. Joseph’s University
Speakers/Papers:
Gregor Kalas, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, “Geographic Data from the Inscriptions of the Late Antique Roman Forum”
Ruggero Longo, Independent Scholar, "A Digital Model and Virtual Reconstruction of the Norman Palace in Palermo: New Tools for New Understandings of the Medieval Spaces"
Lucas Giles, Duke University, "Historic Architecture and Digital Modelling: A Reconstruction of the Choir Screen at Santa Chiara, Naples"

Session Title: Obscured by the Alps: Medieval Italian Architecture and the European Canon
Organizer: Erik Gustafson, George Mason University
Speakers/Papers:
Angelo Passuello, Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, “The Church of San Lorenzo in Verona: A ‘Hapax’ in the Romanesque Architectural Context in Europe”
Evan W. Grey, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, “Italian Octagonal Piers and Late Medieval Anti-Classical Modernism”
Francesco Gangemi, Bibliotheca Herziana, “Enlightened by the Alps: Reconsidering the Role of Northern Tradition on Frederick II’s Architecture in Southern Italy”
Catherine R. Carver, University of Michigan, “Beyond the Gilded Frame: Connectivity of Sacred Space in Medieval Rome”