Sessions Sponsored by the Italian Art Society
Session Title: Picturing the Aldilà: Italian Last Judgments Revisited
In person on Friday, May 15, 2026: 3:30–5:00pm in Sangren 1730
Organizer: Claire Jensen, University of Toronto
Organizer: Alison Locke Perchuk, California State University Channel Islands
Respondent: Janis Elliott, Professor Emerita of Medieval Art History, Texas Tech University
Speakers/Papers:
Alexis Wang, Binghamton University, Medial Ruptures in the Aldilà
Gloria Rusconi, Università degli Studi della Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, Judged by the Cover: Sin and Social Control in Italian Last Judgments
Philip J. Earenfight, Independent Scholar, The Last Judgement with the Madonna della Misericordia: Variations on the Aldilà in Early Italian Painting