IAS at RSA Reception: Friday, April 1, 2022 at 6:00-8:00pm GMT at the Bath Pub. For more information and to RSVP, please click here.
Sessions Sponsored by the Italian Art Society
Session Title: Risky Business: Dangers Faced by Artists and Patrons
Wednesday, March 30, 2022. 9:00–10:30am
The Convention Centre, Dublin- Wicklow Hall 1-2
Organizer: Jonathan K. Nelson, Syracuse University, Florence
Chair: Diana Bullen Presciutti, University of Essex
Respondent: Christopher J. Nygren, University of Pittsburgh
Speakers/Papers:
Kelli Wood, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Digital Approaches to Early Modern Gambling
Kelley Helmstutler Di Dio, University of Vermont, Risk and Risk Aversion in Sculpture Shipments: The Case of Pompeo Leoni's Sculptures for the Escorial
Sharifa Lookman, Princeton University, Assaying Risk in Metallic Reproduction: Error and Technical Fallibility in Giambologna’s Aftercasts
Session Title: WITHDRAWN: New Affordances of Digital Visualization and Simulation in the Arts of Italy
Organizer: Nicola Camerlenghi, Dartmouth College
Organizer: Kelli Wood, University of Tennessee
Chair and Respondent: Nicola Camerlenghi, Dartmouth College
Speakers/Papers:
Tracy Cosgriff, The College of Wooster, Digital Lenses and Renaissance Readings: Reimagining Raphael in the Library of Julius II
Ludovica Galeazzo, I Tatti – The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, The Archipelago Project: Venice’s Early Modern Lagoon in a Semantic and Geospatial Infrastructure
Kelli Wood, University of Tennessee , Digitizing Early Modern Board Games
Session Title: Women and Gender in Trecento Art & Architecture I
Saturday, April 2, 2022. 2:30–4:00pm
The Convention Centre, Dublin- Wicklow Meeting Room 5-2
Organizer: Judith Steinhoff, University of Houston
Speakers/Papers:
Péter Bokody, University of Plymouth, UK, Women as Emotive Models in Giovanni Sercambi’s Chronicle
Michael Shane Harless, Rice University, Fruit of the Vine: Pacino di Bonaguida's Lignum Vitae and Clarissan Visual Literacy
Karen E. McCluskey, University of Notre Dame Australia, Sydney, Holy Men and Artful Nuns: What Paintings Reveal about the Lived Experience of Trecento Women
Session Title: Women and Gender in Trecento Art & Architecture II
Saturday, April 2, 2022. 4:30–6:00pm
The Convention Centre, Dublin- Wicklow Meeting Room 5-2
Organizer: Judith Steinhoff, University of Houston
Speakers/Papers:
Ioanna Christoforaki, Academy of Athens, Virgin Martyr, Sage Doctor, Christ’s Bride: Regendering Saint Catherine of Alexandria
Lorenzo Vigotti, Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz, Italy, Female Actors and Gendered Spaces Inside the Florentine Home between Trecento and Quattrocento
Laura Jacobus, Birckbeck College, University of London, Giotto and the Oratrix, or What Maddalena Saw