The IAS sponsored five sessions at RSA 2015.
We also co-hosted a reception with the Historians of Netherlandish Art (HNA) on Friday, March 27, after the last sessions of the day.

Sessions Sponsored by the Italian Art Society

Session Title: Italians Look at Germans
Hegelplatz, Dorotheenstrasse 24/1, 1.103
Thursday, March 26, 2015, 10:15-11:45am
Organizers and Chairs: Kathleen Giles Arthur, James Madison University, and Martha Dunkelman, Canisius College
Respondent: Sean Roberts, Villa I Tatti, The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies
Speakers/Papers:
Kay Arthur, James Madison University, "The Reception and Influence of German Single-Sheet Woodcuts in Ferrara"
Bryony Bartlett-Rawlings, Courtauld Institute, “Beware, you envious thieves of the work and invention of others, keep your thoughtless hands from these works of ours”

Session Title: Reception, Reuse, and Repurposing in Italian Renaissance Art I: Architectural Revival and Reinterpretation
Hegelplatz, Dorotheenstrasse 24/1, 1.103
Saturday, March 28, 2015, 2:00-3:30pm
Organizer and Chair: Kirstin Noreen, Loyola Marymount University
Speakers/Papers:
Gregor Kalas, University of Tennessee, "The Displaced Identities of the Curia Senatus and the Secretarium Senatus in Rome"
Dale Kinney, Bryn Mawr College, “Anticaglie”

Session Title: Reception, Reuse, and Repurposing in Italian Renaissance Art II: Re-Framing the Holy
Hegelplatz, Dorotheenstrasse 24/1, 1.103
Saturday, March 28, 3:45-5:15pm
Organizer: Kirstin Noreen, Loyola Marymount University
Chair: Sheryl E. Reiss, Italian Art Society
Speakers/Papers:
Dorigen Sophie Caldwell, Lecturer in Italian Renaissance Art, History of Art Department, Birkbeck, University of London, "Re-framing the Virgin in Counter-Reformation Umbria"
Kirstin Noreen, Loyola Marymount University, "Climbing the Scala Sancta: Reliving the Passion, Ritual Performance and the Lateran Icon of Christ"

Session Title: The Absent Image in Italian Renaissance Art
Hegelplatz, Dorotheenstrasse 24/1, 1.103
Thursday, March 26, 2015 1:15-2:45pm
Organizers and Chairs: Lauren Dodds, University of Southern California; Emily R. Anderson, University of Southern California
Speakers/Papers:
Evelyn F. Karet, Independent Scholar, "Italian Drawings"
Elizabeth Pilliod, Rutgers University, "The Afterlife of Pontormo’s lost frescoes in San Lorenzo at Florence and the historiography of a 'Mannerist' Artist"
Sean Roberts, Villa i Tatti, "Resurrecting the Colossus in Renaissance Print"

Session Title: Vittoria Colonna and Michelangelo: A Broader Vision
Hauptgebäude, Unter den Linden 6, Audimax
Thursday, March 26, 2015, 8:30-10:00am
Organizer: Tiffany Lynn Hunt, Temple University
Chair: Bernadine Barnes,Wake Forrest University
Speakers/Papers:
Emily Fenichel, Florida Atlantic University, "Beyond the Spirituali: Vittoria Colonna, Michelangelo, and Meditation
Anne Dillon, Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge, "The Influence of Vittoria Colonna on Michelangelo’s Frescoes for the Capella Paolina"
Marjorie Och, University of Mary Washington , "Colonna and Michelangelo on the Quirinal"