Sessions Sponsored by the Italian Art Society
Session Title: Molding Matters: Women in Early Modern Sculpture I
Saturday, March 23, 2024, 2:30 - 4:00 PM
Palmer House Hilton - Salon 1 - Third Floor
Organizer & Chair: Eve Straussman-Pflanzer, National Gallery of Art
Organizer: Caroline Paganussi, American Friends of Capodimonte Postdoctoral Curatorial Fellow
Speakers/Papers:
Anna Frasca-Rath, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, A Quantitative Approach towards Early Modern Women Sculptors (1550-1850)
Patricia Simons, Professor Emerita, University of Michigan/Professorial Fellow, University of Melbourne, The Gender and Sexuality of Making Sculpture
C.D. Dickerson III, National Gallery of Art, Luisa Roldán and the Nobility of Clay
Caroline Paganussi, American Friends of Capodimonte Postdoctoral Curatorial Fellow, Wax, Waxiness, and a Woman’s Capacity to Create: Anna Morandi Manzolini’s Portrait of Giovanni Manzolini
Session Title: Molding Matters: Women in Early Modern Sculpture II
Saturday, March 23, 2024, 4:30 - 6:00 PM
Palmer House Hilton - Salon 1 - Third Floor
Organizer & Chair: Eve Straussman-Pflanzer, National Gallery of Art
Organizer: Caroline Paganussi, American Friends of Capodimonte Postdoctoral Curatorial Fellow
Speakers/Papers:
Cathy Hall-van den Elsen, Independent Scholar, Two Sculptor’s Daughters in Early Modern Spain
Elizabeth Mattison, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Beatrice Hamerani and Women’s Medals in Early Modern Europe
Camilla Parisi, Soprintendenza Speciale Archeologia Belle Arti e Paesaggio di Roma – Ministero della Cultura, Camilla della Valle: To Be a Woman in a Sculptor’s Atelier in the 18th Century
Charline Fournier Petit, University of Maryland, College Park, Elisa Bonaparte Baciocchi and the Revival of Carrara