Call Deadline: June 14, 2024
Sessions Sponsored by the Italian Art Society
Session Title: Guasti: Preventive Destruction During the Italian Wars
Thursday. March 20, 2:30-4:00 PM
Boston Mariott Salon K
Organizer and Chair: Chiara Capulli, Bibliotheca Hertziana - Max Planck Institute for Art History
Speakers/Papers:
Alberto Pérez Negrete, Ca' Foscari University of Venice, The Guasto in the Veneto: Case Studies from the Time of the League of Cambrai
Anna Rebecca Sartore, The Guasto of Perugia in 1517 and Its Effects on the Cityscape
Antonino Tranchina, Università degli studi di Napoli Federico II, The Rescue of Medieval Sacred Memories during the Sixteenth-Century Fortification of Messina
Session Title: Ennobling the Provincial City in Late Medieval/Early Modern South Italy: Urban Planning, Palaces, Tombs, Mausolea
Friday, March 22, 9:00-10:30 AM
Boston Marriott, Salon H, 4th Floor
Organizer and Chair: Caroline Bruzelius, Duke University
Speakers/Papers:
Maria Harvey, James Madison University, Octagonal Mausolea: Tombs Behind the Altars: County Seats, Seignorial Power, and the Angevin Court
Luigi Tufano, University of Naples, Federico II, Rethinking the Strategies of the Nobility: Politics and Power in South Italy
Antonio Mursia, University of Rome , Between Devotion and Representation of Power: Alvaro Paternò and Noble Patronage in Sixteenth-Century Sicily
Session Title: Bearing Witness: Scratching the Surface of Italian Art
Saturday, March 22, 2025: 9:00-10:30 AM
Boston Marriott Salon B, 4th Floor
Organizer: Dr. Kirstin J. Noreen
Chair: Dr. Grace Theresa Harpster
Speakers/Papers:
Megan Holmes, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Feisty Figuration at Play in the Townhouse Bedroom
Diane Bodart, Columbia University , Drawing on the Walls of the Renaissance Studio
Mitra Kazemi, Columbia University, Carceral Aesthetics at an Inquisitorial Prison in Palermo
Véronique Plesch, Colby College, Renaissance Graffiti on Renaissance Works of Art: An Art-Historical Litmus Test
Session Title: Displaying Renaissance and Baroque Art: Exhibition Choices of Italian Museums Through Time
Saturday, March 22nd, 4:30-6:00 PM
Boston Marriott, Provincetown Room, 4th Floor
Organizers: Paola d’Alconzo, University of Naples, Frederick II and Donata Levi, Università di Udine
Chair: Antonella Gioli, University of Pisa
Speakers/Papers:
Paola D'Alconzo, Università di Napoli Federico II, Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici and Donata Levi, University of Udine, Department of Humanist Studies and Cultural Patrimony, Renaissance and Baroque Displays in a Pilot Project for a Digital Atlas of Italian Museums
Camilla Parisi, Università degli Studi Roma Tre, Renaissance Artworks and Territorial Identity: The Role of the Museo Nazionale d’Abruzzo
Silvia Cecchini, Roma Tre University and Annalisa Laganà Università degli Studi di Napoli "Federico II", Vulnerable Renaissance: Photographic Documentation on Italy’s Museum Collections and Displays During the Two World Wars
Daria Brasca, Università degli Studi di Udine, American Perceptions and Representations of Italian Museum Installations from World War II to the mid-1950s