Sessions Sponsored by the Italian Art Society
Session Title: Re-Orienting the Early Modern Networks of Exchange between Italy and Asia
Organizer: Negar Rokhgar, Pratt Institute
Organizer: Margo Weitzman, Rutgers University
Chair and Respondent: Kelli Wood, University of Tennessee Knoxville
Speakers/Papers:
Negar Rokhgar, Pratt Institute, Turbans, Crusaders, and the Dynamics of the Anti-Ottoman Campaign in the Piccolomini Library
Margo Weitzman, Rutgers University, Interpreting Locality: Filippo Sassetti and the Reception of India and its Objects in Florence
Alexandria Brown-Hedjazi, Stanford University , The Lapis Dome of the Cappella dei Principi: Medici Exchange with Safavid Iran
Session Title: Transgressing the Socially Controlled Body of Early Modern Italy I: Religion and the Body
Organizer: Rebecca Marie Howard, University of Memphis
Organizer: Caroline Koncz, Angelo State University
Chair: Claudia Lazzaro, Cornell University
Speakers/Papers:
Karin Flora, Ohio State University, Roman Goddess and Mary: Clashing Conceptions of the Feminine in Giulio Romano and Raphael’s ‘Ceres’
Alysée Le Druillenec, Université Catholique de Louvain and Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne , Carrying the Holy Child: A Depiction of Masculinity in the Christian Counter-Reformation?
Christine Zappella, University of Texas Health Sciences Center , Sexual Arousal as Identity-Hermeneutic in some Florentine Religious Spaces
Session Title: Transgressing the Socially Controlled Body of Early Modern Italy II: Public Persona and the Body
Organizer: Rebecca Marie Howard, University of Memphis
Organizer and Chair: Caroline Koncz, Angelo State University
Speakers/Papers:
Kendra Grimmett, University of Pennsylvania, Emulating ‘The Courtier’ in ‘The Honeysuckle Bower’
Kathleen Peters, Oglethorpe University, ‘Carnevale’ and a Tridentine Indictment of Crossdressing Men
Claudia Lazzaro, Cornell University , Duke Cosimo’s Breasts