Art and the Early Modern Papacy 1 (Thursday, October 29, 8:30am)

Organizer: James Clifton, Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation
Chair: Sheryl E. Reiss, University of Chicago, Graham School

• Learning from the Past: The Topicality of Pope Eugene IV (1431–1437) in the Late Sixteenth Century (Silvia Tita, Michigan State University)
• The Rocca Pia and the Dialectics of Humanist Patronage (ElDante Winston, Kansas State University)
• Pope Nicholas IV’s Plan for the Orvieto Cathedral: A Harmony of Parts with Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome (Sara N. James, Mary Baldwin College)

Art and the Early Modern Papacy 2 (Thursday, October 29, 10:30am)

Organizer: Sheryl E. Reiss, University of Chicago, Graham School
Chair: David Drogin, SUNY Fashion Institute of Technology

• Arise, O Lord, and Rebuke the Wild Boar: Raphael’s Transfiguration and Pope Leo X’s Bull against Martin Luther (Elizabeth Alker Lisot-Nelson, University of Texas at Tyler)
• Giorgio Vasari and Pope Clement VII: The Fashioning of a Medici Papal Patron in Word and Image (Sheryl E. Reiss, University of Chicago, Graham School)
• Tragedies and other Dramas: The Cardinal Nephew’s Role in Stewarding the Papal Tomb (James Gordon Harper, The Pennsylvania State University)