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SUMMARY:Conferences 2013
DESCRIPTION:The Italian Renaissance in China: New Research by Chinese Sc
 holars\n24-25 October. Harvard Center\, Shanghai.&nbsp\;Villa I Tatti&nb
 sp\;- The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies (Flo
 rence) sponsored the first scholarly conference in China to address the 
 field of Italian Renaissance Studies. This event presented recent resear
 ch by Chinese scholars who teach topics relating to the Renaissance and 
 aimed to help create a community of scholars in Greater China who can co
 llaborate and exchange ideas about their related interests.. For more in
 formation\, including abstracts of all papers\,&nbsp\;see the program.\n
 \nItalian Renaissance and Baroque Sculpture: Material\, Manufacture\, Me
 aning\, and Movement\n18 October\, The University of Vermont\, Burlingto
 n.&nbsp\;The focus of the&nbsp\;symposium&nbsp\;was the processes\, mate
 rials\, difficulties&nbsp\;and risks of production and shipment\, and th
 e various meanings and&nbsp\;intentions of Italian Renaissance and Baroq
 ue sculpture. Scholars of Early&nbsp\;Modern sculpture and a renowned co
 ntemporary sculptor discussed these&nbsp\;issues in a glorious Vermont s
 etting (peak leaf season!).&nbsp\;The symposium was organized by Prof. K
 elley Helmstutler Di Dio\,&nbsp\;Associate Professor of Art History\, Un
 iversity of Vermont\, and generously&nbsp\;funded by the Mollie Ruprecht
  Fund for the Visual Arts\, the Lattie F. Coor&nbsp\;Award in the Humani
 ties and Fine Arts\, and a History of Art grant from the&nbsp\;Samuel H.
  Kress Foundation.&nbsp\;For further information\, please contact&nbsp\;
 Prof. Helmstutler Di Dio&nbsp\;or&nbsp\;Jordan Lovejoy\, Lattie F. Coor 
 Research Assistant. Papers:&nbsp\;“Ghiberti\, Materials\, and an Image
  of Transport\,”&nbsp\;Amy R. Bloch\, Assistant Professor\, SUNY Alban
 y\;&nbsp\;“The High Altar at the Santo: Materials\, Movement\, and Mea
 ning\,”&nbsp\;Sarah Blake McHam\, Professor\, Rutgers University\;&nbs
 p\;“Camillo Mariani and the Nobility of Stucco\,”&nbsp\;C. D. Dicker
 son III\, Curator of European Art\, Kimbell Museum of Art\, Fort&nbsp\;&
 nbsp\;Worth\;&nbsp\;“Alessandro Vittoria and the Art of Marble Carving
 \,”&nbsp\;Victoria Avery\, Keeper\, Applied Arts\, Fitzwilliam Museum\
 , Cambridge\, UK\;&nbsp\;"The Sculptural Stones of Venice: the selection
 \, supply and cost of marble&nbsp\;and stone in the sixteenth century\,
 &nbsp\;Emma Jones\, PhD candidate\, Department of History of Art\, Uni
 versity of&nbsp\;Cambridge\;&nbsp\;"Francesco Mochi\, Stone and Scale\,"
 &nbsp\;Michael Cole\, Columbia University\;&nbsp\;“An Impossible Task\
 ,”&nbsp\;William E. Wallace\, Washington University\;&nbsp\;“Passage
 : Shaping Stone in Modern Times\,”&nbsp\;Richard Erdman\, sculptor\n\n
 Early Modern Rome 2 (1341-1667)\n10-12 October\, Rome. In celebration of
  the 10th Anniversary of the “Rome Through the Ages” program of the 
 University of California Education Abroad Program\, Rome\, Italy. Early 
 modern Rome was contradictory and complex\; its vernacular and high cult
 ure animated and rich. From Petrarch’s crowning as Poet Laureate on th
 e Capitoline in 1341 to the pontificate of Alexander VII Chigi in 1667\,
  this conference aims to bring together scholars from a range of discipl
 ines—history\, art and architectural history\, literature\, music\, da
 nce\, religious studies\, food studies\, philosophy\, history of medicin
 e or science\, and others—to investigate the city and the campagna rom
 ana through a variety of different approaches and methods. The resoundin
 g response to the first conference in May 2010—76 papers from research
 ers from 9 different countries over 3 days—mirrored the complex mix of
  the city itself and the changing face of Renaissance studies. The organ
 izers wish to bring together in a single venue those whose research focu
 ses on the city of Rome and the Roman countryside to encourage scholars 
 to venture outside of their own disciplinary parameters to enter into di
 alogue with others and explore concurrent forms of cultural production o
 r social and political events. Please note that&nbsp\;EMR 2&nbsp\;extend
 ed the confines of the city by organizing sessions on the campagna roman
 a\, in particular on the Orsini-Odescalchi Castle of Bracciano. As in th
 e tradition of EMR\, the panel(s) “Beyond Rome” aim to bring togethe
 r scholars from a range of disciplines—history\, art and architectural
  history\, literature\, music\, dance\, religious studies\, philosophy\,
  history of medicine or science\, diplomacy\, gender\, and others—to i
 nvestigate the Orsini-Odescalchi Castle and its inhabitants through a va
 riety of approaches and methods. The articles selected for the Bracciano
  panels was re-examined after the conference by a special committee and 
 published in two different texts: a scholarly book in English with an ac
 ademic press and an abbreviated publication in Italian and English to il
 lustrate the history\, art and architecture of the Orsini-Odescalchi Cas
 tle. Questions should be directed to&nbsp\;Julia L. Hairston.\n\nNun Art
 ists in Early Modern Italy\n4-5 October\, Convento dei Frati Servi di Sa
 nta Maria (SS. Annunziata)\,&nbsp\;Sala dell'Annunciazione\,&nbsp\;via C
 esare Battisti 6\, Florence.&nbsp\;The Provincia Romana di S. Caterina d
 a Siena\, the Medici Archive Project's&nbsp\;Jane Fortune Research&nbsp\
 ;Program on Women Artists\, and the Biblioteca Domenicana of Santa Maria
  Novella co-sponsored the conference\, "Artiste nel Chiostro." Twelve sc
 holars from Italy\, the United States\, Israel\, France\, Switzerland\, 
 and Spain presented new research on nun artists and the conditions of ar
 tistic production in female monastic communities from the early Renaissa
 nce through the eighteenth century\, in Italy as well as abroad.&nbsp\;T
 he conference took place&nbsp\;in the "Sala dell'Annunciazione\," Conven
 to dei Frati Servi di Santa Maria (SS. Annunziata)\, via Cesare Battisti
  6. For information\, visit&nbsp\;www.medici.org.\n\nFriday\, 4 October\
 , 15:00-18:30:&nbsp\;Gabriella ZARRI\, Culture nel chiostro: tra arte e 
 vita\;&nbsp\;Rosanna MIRIELLO\,&nbsp\;Lo scriptorium del monastero del P
 aradiso di Firenze\;&nbsp\;Loretta VANDI\,&nbsp\;Suor Eufrasia Burlamacc
 hi's aesthetic theory\;&nbsp\;Panayota VOLTI\,&nbsp\;Les expressions art
 istiques des religieuses: une créativité déclinée au&nbsp\;féminin\
 ;&nbsp\;Mercedes PÉREZ VIDAL\,&nbsp\;The Art\, Visual Culture and Litur
 gy of Dominican Nuns in Early Modern&nbsp\;Castille\;&nbsp\;Tamar HERZIG
 \,&nbsp\;Nuns\, Artists\, and Baptized Jews\;&nbsp\;Denise ZARU\,&nbsp\;
 La cultura figurativa delle domenicane del Corpus Domini a Venezia&nbsp\
 ;durante il Quattrocento.\n\nSaturday\, 5 October\, 9:30-12:45:&nbsp\;Sh
 aron STROCCHIA\,&nbsp\;Lectio Magistralis: Knowing Hands: Nuns' Textile 
 Artistry in Renaissance&nbsp\;Florence\;&nbsp\;Adelina MODESTI\,&nbsp\;N
 un Artisans\, Needlecraft and Material Culture in the Early Modern&nbsp\
 ;Florentine Convent\;&nbsp\;Antonella CHIODO\,&nbsp\;Orsola Maddalena Ca
 ccia e la pratica pittorica nei monasteri delle&nbsp\;orsoline del ducat
 o gonzaghesco\;&nbsp\;Paola CARETTA\,&nbsp\;Orizzonti figurativi e rifer
 imenti culturali nell'opera di Orsola&nbsp\;Maddalena Caccia\;&nbsp\;Con
 suelo LOLLOBRIGIDA\,&nbsp\;Maria Luigia Raggi: pittrice monaca nel conve
 nto delle Turchine di&nbsp\;Genova\;&nbsp\;Catherine TURRILL\,&nbsp\;The
  Frate's Follower: Classifying and Collecting the Work of Plautilla&nbsp
 \;Nelli in the 1800\;&nbsp\;Fausta NAVARRO\,&nbsp\;"I sospiri mi sono ci
 bo\, e le lagrime beveraggio..." Plautilla Nelli per&nbsp\;Santa Caterin
 a da Siena.\n\nThe Eternal Baroque: Studies in Honour of Jennifer Montag
 u\n6-7 September 2013\, The Wallace Collection\, London. Dr. Jennifer Mo
 ntagu\, LVO\, CBE\, is a world-renowned art historian whose name has bec
 ome synonymous with the study of Italian Baroque sculpture. In addition 
 to her groundbreaking archival research about Alessandro Algardi\, she h
 as elevated the connoisseurship of Roman bronzes to an academic discipli
 ne and fundamentally changed the way art historians think about Baroque 
 sculpture in general. Her approach to the organization of ateliers and t
 o the complex relationships between patron\, designer and craftsman has 
 established a new standard for methodology\, not only in Baroque sculptu
 re but also for the study of all early-modern European sculpture. In hon
 or of her immeasurable contribution\, the foremost scholars in the field
  of Italian Baroque sculpture&nbsp\;presented papers in her honor&nbsp\;
 on 6–7 September 2013 at the Wallace Collection\, London\,&nbsp\;Manch
 ester Square\, London:&nbsp\;Friday\, 6 September 2013\, 10am–6pm\;&nb
 sp\;Saturday\, 7 September 2013\, 10am–5pm. Read more about the sympos
 ium in The Art Newspaper.\n\nThe Substance of Sacred Place:&nbsp\;an Int
 erdisciplinary Workshop on Locative Materiality\n20-21 June 2013\, Flore
 nce.&nbsp\;Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz - Max-Planck-Institut\,
  Florence. The study of holy places has long been a central concern of n
 ot only&nbsp\;the humanities\, but also the social sciences. Much of thi
 s body of&nbsp\;scholarship has focused on pilgrimage and sacred centers
 \, either as&nbsp\;theoretical constructions or as concrete places\, suc
 h as Jerusalem\,&nbsp\;Mecca\, or Benares. These subjects have been expl
 ored\, on the one hand\,&nbsp\;through the study of ritual and liturgy\,
  and on the other\, through&nbsp\;various modes of representation\, be t
 hey architectural\, cartographic\,&nbsp\;iconic\, or textual. Complement
 ary to these lines of inquiry\, papers explored the material and tactile
  dimensions of locative&nbsp\;sacrality across religious traditions.&nbs
 p\;For questions and further information please contact conference organ
 izers&nbsp\;Annette Hoffmann and&nbsp\;Laura Veneskey. Click&nbsp\;here 
 to see the program.\n\nAnnual Symposium on Medieval and Renaissance Stud
 ies\n17-19 June 2013\, St. Louis. The&nbsp\;Annual Symposium on Medieval
  and Renaissance Studies&nbsp\;at St. Louis University is a convenient s
 ummer venue in North America for scholars to present papers\, organize s
 essions\, participate in roundtables\, and engage in interdisciplinary d
 iscussion. The goal of the Symposium is to promote serious scholarly inv
 estigation into all topics and in all disciplines of medieval and early 
 modern studies. On-campus housing options include affordable\, air-condi
 tioned apartments as well as hotel accommodations. Inexpensive meal plan
 s are available\, and there is a wealth of restaurants\, bars\, and cult
 ural venues within easy walking distance of campus.&nbsp\;While attendin
 g the Annual Symposium participants are free to use the&nbsp\;Vatican Fi
 lm Library\, the Rare Book and Manuscripts Collection\, and the general 
 collection at Saint Louis University's Pius XII Memorial Library.&nbsp\;
 &nbsp\;Some&nbsp\;fellowships&nbsp\;with housing are available to use th
 e collection. For more information\, visit symposium&nbsp\;website.\n\nI
 talia Illustrata\n17 June\, 2013. Florence.&nbsp\;Kunsthistorisches Inst
 itut in Florenz - Max-Planck-Institut\, Florence.&nbsp\;Italia Illustrat
 a. Digital Mapping and Techniques of Visualizing the Pre-modern Italian 
 City&nbsp\;Workshop.&nbsp\;An international workshop held to discuss str
 ategies and methodologies of digitally excavating\, mapping\, and recons
 tructing the literary\, social\, artistic\, and built remains of pre-mod
 ern Italian cities in order to develop novel ways of interpreting the pa
 st. Click here to see the program and more information.\n\nRevision\, Re
 vival and Return: The Italian Renaissance in the Nineteenth-Century\n5-7
  June. Pisa &amp\; Florence\, Italy. The object of&nbsp\;this conference
 &nbsp\;is the Renaissance revival as a Pan-European phenomenon of critiq
 ue\, commentary and re-shaping of a&nbsp\;nineteenth-century present per
 ceived as deeply problematic. Sweeping the humanistic disciplines—hist
 ory\, literature\, music\, art\, architecture\, collecting etc—it mark
 ed the oeuvre of as diverse a group of figures as Ingres and EM Forster\
 , Geymüller and Hildebrand\, Michelet and Burckhardt\, HH Richardson an
 d Rilke\, Carducci and De Sanctis. Though some perceived it as a “Gold
 en Age”\, a model for the&nbsp\;present\, some cast it as a negative e
 xample\, thus showing that the triumphalist model had its detractors and
  that the reaction to the Renaissance was more complex than it may at fi
 rst appear. This three day event then proposes to recover some of the mu
 lti-dimensionality of the reaction to\, transformation of and commentary
  on the Italian&nbsp\;Renaissance and its ties to nineteenth-century mod
 ernity\, as seen both from within (by Italians) and from without (by for
 eigners\, expatriates\,travelers etc).&nbsp\;The conference was organize
 d by Lina Bolzoni (Scuola Normale\, Pisa) and&nbsp\;Alina Payne (Harvard
  University) under the auspices of The Harvard&nbsp\;University Center f
 or Italian Renaissance Studies at Villa I Tatti and&nbsp\;the Scuola Nor
 male Superiore\, Pisa. Click here to download&nbsp\;conference program. 
 Click here to read a review of the event.\n\nThe Medici and the Levant (
 1532-1743)\n7 June 2013\, Archivio di Stato\, Florence.&nbsp\;Conference
  website.\n\nThe Announcement: Annunciations and Beyond\n2-4 May 2013\, 
 Florence.&nbsp\;Interdisciplinary Conference&nbsp\;at the&nbsp\;Kunsthis
 torisches Institut in&nbsp\;Florenz - Max-Planck-Institut\, Florence.&nb
 sp\;The Annunciation is\, first of all\, a long tradition of representat
 ions&nbsp\;of 'the' Annunciation\, the one narrated in the Gospel of Luk
 e: a&nbsp\;'caesura' in which everything changed\, but also the fragment
  of time in&nbsp\;which this change was made known. An announcement of a
  birth to come\,&nbsp\;of course\, but also of death\, resurrection and 
 redemption. Daniel&nbsp\;Arasse established the essential link between t
 he evolution of this&nbsp\;tradition in Renaissance Italy - its most fam
 ous homeland - and the&nbsp\;parallel conceptualization and practice of 
 linear perspective. And&nbsp\;indeed\, Annunciations\, thanks to their u
 biquity in Early Modern art and&nbsp\;their narrative simplicity (two pr
 otagonists\, a message\, a single&nbsp\;domestic space) were\, and still
  are\, a formidable laboratory of formal&nbsp\;and visual thinking.This 
 long series of representations is also the nodal point of several&nbsp\;
 important philosophical issues that can be extended thematically\,&nbsp\
 ;chronologically and geographically well beyond the literal\, Christian&
 nbsp\;theme of the Annunciation. Tracing the development of the Annuncia
 tion&nbsp\;and the announcement is thus a useful way to narrate the chan
 ging views&nbsp\;on numerous questions: the issue of 'time'\, first and 
 foremost\; the&nbsp\;hardly conceivable simultaneity of the announcement
 \, the acceptance\,&nbsp\;and its coming into effect\; the fragment of t
 ime that is not anymore&nbsp\;the 'before'\, but not yet the 'after'\; a
 nd the relation between a&nbsp\;personal story and general History\, wit
 h their different temporalities\,&nbsp\;here suddenly converging.&nbsp\;
 Then\, there is the question of the Word\, of its transformation into&nb
 sp\;material fact\; the relation between announcer - the long-standing&n
 bsp\;figure of the messenger - and recipient of the message\, their&nbsp
 \;inevitable epistemological difference here complicated by their&nbsp\;
 ontological alterity\, not to mention the gender aspect\; and the variou
 s&nbsp\;degrees of expectation and readiness that condition the receptio
 n of&nbsp\;the message and its subsequent comprehension.&nbsp\;Annunciat
 ions and announcements are therefore a conceptual archipelago&nbsp\;wort
 h discussion for art history\, philosophy and politics in the early&nbsp
 \;twenty-first century. Announcements - these sudden\, often unexpected&
 nbsp\;fulgurations that appear\, in the midst of life\, in our inboxes\,
  at our&nbsp\;doorsteps\, even in our dreams - are a persistent phenomen
 on and an&nbsp\;incessant challenge to the visual arts. It is thus the w
 hole range of&nbsp\;announcements - from the depictions of the angel's s
 peech to Mary to&nbsp\;wholly secular artistic references to staggering 
 political&nbsp\;announcements\, with any other visual treatment of the a
 ct of announcing&nbsp\;in between\, that the conference at the Kunsthist
 orisches Institut in&nbsp\;Florenz - Max-Planck-Institut was dedicated.&
 nbsp\;The goal of the conference is to unite contributions addressing so
 me of&nbsp\;the above-mentioned aspects by art historians\, philosophers
  and&nbsp\;scholars of neighboring disciplines. Click here to see the pr
 ogram.\n\nRenaissance Orientations: East and West\, North and South\n19 
 April 2013\, Princeton. Annual Princeton Renaissance Studies Graduate Co
 nference Princeton University. The cultural moment of the Renaissance ca
 n be characterized not only as a movement in time - as artists and write
 rs looked back to and marked a new sense of temporal displacement from t
 he cultural and political forms of classical antiquity - but also as a s
 et of real and imagined passages through space. These geographical trans
 its often seem to fall along the lines of the compass rose: we might thi
 nk here of the movement from East to West of Greek art\, texts and intel
 lectuals and its mythic-historical corollary in the&nbsp\;translatio imp
 erii\; or of the spread of cultural forms and&nbsp\;discourses northward
  from Florence\, Venice\, and Rome through the period.&nbsp\;“Renaissa
 nce Orientations: East and West\, North and South” aims to bring&nbsp\
 ;together graduate students from across the disciplines to explore and&n
 bsp\;interrogate the usefulness and importance of these conceptual axes 
 for the&nbsp\;study of Renaissance cultural space\, broadly conceived an
 d at any scale\,&nbsp\;from the local to the global. We welcome papers o
 ffering new perspectives&nbsp\;on traditional lines of interaction\, as 
 well as those which expand or&nbsp\;destabilize prevailing structures of
  Renaissance cultural geography.&nbsp\;Any questions can be directed to&
 nbsp\;Leon Grek&nbsp\;or&nbsp\;Robyn Radway.\n\nTransformative Literacie
 s: A Medieval and Early Modern Studies Interdisciplinary Conference\n19-
 20 April 2013\, College Park.&nbsp\;The Graduate Field Committee in&nbsp
 \;Medieval and Early Modern Studies&nbsp\;at&nbsp\;the University of Mar
 yland\, College Park invites submissions that explore the topic&nbsp\;of
  “Transformative Literacies” for a graduate student-faculty&nbsp\;co
 nference.&nbsp\;This two-day interdisciplinary conference&nbsp\;aims to 
 foster insightful and vigorous conversation on this topic&nbsp\;through 
 an innovative format that includes paper panels\, roundtables\,&nbsp\;an
 d plenary sessions that explore the ways in which written&nbsp\;and visu
 al materials transformed the medieval and early modern world\, including
  but not limited to: the&nbsp\;creation\, collection\, and use of illumi
 nated manuscripts\; the history&nbsp\;of the book\; the history of the p
 rinting press and various printing&nbsp\;techniques\; technological adva
 nces related to literacy\; the role of the&nbsp\;print\, both as a textu
 al illustration and as a work of art\; collecting&nbsp\;practices for bo
 oks and printed materials\; the role and legacy of works&nbsp\;of mediev
 al and early modern literature\; the influence of classical&nbsp\;litera
 ry sources\; access to literary and visual sources\; the impact of&nbsp\
 ;theatrical performances\; the role of literary institutions\, including
 &nbsp\;universities\, libraries\, and monasteries\; the significance of 
 written&nbsp\;and visual materials in matters of religion and politics\;
  textual and&nbsp\;visual sources as propaganda\; literacies in the non-
 Western world\;&nbsp\;myths about literacy\; and the relationship betwee
 n gender and&nbsp\;literacies.&nbsp\;Questions via&nbsp\;email&nbsp\;sho
 uld&nbsp\;indicate “Transformative Literacies&nbsp\;2013” in the sub
 ject line.\n\nPrésences Septentrionales en Lombardie Au Temps Des Sforz
 a (1450-1535)\n12-13 April\, 2013\, Geneva. Inscrit dans le Projet Siner
 gia du FNS "Constructing Identity: Visual\, Spatial and Literary Culture
 s in Lombardy (14th-16th century)" des Universités de Genève\, Lausann
 e et Zurich et de l’EPFL de Lausanne (www.unil.ch/lombardy)\, ce collo
 que est consacré à la présence d’œuvres et de personnalités septe
 ntrionales (musiciens\, orfèvres\, graveurs\, peintres\, etc.) en Lomba
 rdie entre le milieu du XVe et le début du XVIe siècle. Il s’attache
 ra particulièrement à comprendre le rôle joué par la cour des Sforza
 . Visit the&nbsp\;conference website&nbsp\;for full details.\n\nNYU Medi
 eval and Renaissance Center\, Annual Spring Conference: Charisma\n29 Mar
 ch 2013\, New York. The Medieval and Renaissance Study Center of New Yor
 k University hosted its Annual Spring Conference on March 29\, 2013 with
  keynote speaker Professor C. Stephen Jaeger\, University of Illinois\, 
 Urbana-Champaign and a pre-conference address by Professor Paul Binski\,
  Cambridge University. Papers address the topic of charisma in any of it
 s multiple forms and cultural sites: from an attribute of an individual 
 person--whether a god-given grace or personally cultivated aura--to a fe
 ature of a work of art that affords it the power to uplift or dazzle a b
 eholder\; and from the elite productions and practices of church and sta
 te--such as Gothic cathedrals and royal regalia and processions--to such
  cult objects of religion and secular art as icons\, relics\, stones\, p
 ilgrimage shrines\, weapons\, and portraits\; and to such quasi-historic
 al and literary characters as Lancelot of the Lake\, Don Quixote\, Mephi
 stopheles\, and Helen of Troy. While recent conferences and publications
  on the topic of charisma have focused on charismatic preaching and reli
 gious institutions\, this conference aims to explore charisma as a quali
 ty or force that charms\, persuades\, enchants\, and transforms\, a forc
 e that may appear as a magical quality of human personalities\, of works
  of art\, of animals\, and even of objects: in short\, charisma no longe
 r strictly in the sense of Max Weber’s studies of charismatic leadersh
 ip\, but in addition\, charisma as it asserts itself in aesthetics\, psy
 chology\, and anthropology. The Medieval and Renaissance Center offered 
 assistance with travel and accommodation to conference participants livi
 ng outside New York City. For more information please contact&nbsp\;Mart
 ha Rust.\n\nExploring the Renaissance 2013: An International Conference\
 n21-22 March 2013\, Omaha. The 62nd annual&nbsp\;South-Central Renaissan
 ce Conference&nbsp\;was&nbsp\;held in&nbsp\;Omaha\, Nebraska with papers
  by members of this&nbsp\;interdisciplinary association of Renaissance s
 cholars with membership drawn from North America and Europe. The 2013&nb
 sp\;Keynote Lecture was given by&nbsp\;Norman Land\,&nbsp\;University of
  Missouri:&nbsp\;“Pingo and Fingo: A Concise History of a Joke.” Nic
 holas von Maltzahn of the University of Ottawa presented the Louis L. Ma
 rtz Lecture\,&nbsp\;“Andrew Marvell’s Paper Work: The Secretary-Poet
 \;” and IAS member Liana De Girolami Cheney\,&nbsp\;University of Mass
 achusetts Lowell\, presented&nbsp\;the William B. Hunter lecture\,&nbsp\
 ;“Giorgio Vasari’s Vision: The Arts and the&nbsp\;Belles Lettres.”
 \n\nLeonardo on Nature\n1-3 March 2013\, Florence. An&nbsp\;internationa
 l conference&nbsp\;hosted by the&nbsp\;Kunsthistorisches Institut in Flo
 renz - Max-Planck-Institut&nbsp\;to explore the concept of "Nature" in L
 eonardo's works to contribute\, in a wholly transdisciplinary way (liter
 ary\, artistic\, philosophical\, technical-scientific) to the re-evaluat
 ion of questions that place Leonardo squarely at some of the most import
 ant intellectual crossroads of his time. Such an approach serves to disp
 el recurring myths and misconceptions\, giving a solid basis for researc
 h on this topic and making it possible to resume\, in a renewed and crit
 ical way\, the study of "Leonardo's philosophy"\, his sources and\, ulti
 mately\, also his "naturalism."&nbsp\;Program.\n\nDiscovering the Italia
 n Trecento in the Nineteenth Century\n1-2 March 2013\, London and 15-16 
 November 2013\, Venice. In contrast to earlier periods\, the nineteenth 
 century witnessed a considerable development of interest in the early It
 alian Renaissance\, especially the Trecento. &nbsp\;The period became in
 spirational in a variety of areas – contemporary literature\, the fine
  and applied arts as well as in religion. &nbsp\;Often its history and c
 ulture were seen as a way of ‘reshaping’ the present. &nbsp\;The lif
 e and work of famous men like Giotto\, Dante\, Petrarch and Boccaccio ex
 cited the imaginations of countless nineteenth-century European and Amer
 ican artists\, architects\, designers\, writers and thinkers\; and acqui
 ring the works of Trecento artists became important to the development o
 f public and private collections as represented by the National Gallery 
 in England or Pierpont Morgan and Isabella Stuart Gardiner in the United
  States. This conference brought together researchers from a range of di
 sciplines with the aim of shedding light on the little studied subject o
 f the reception and influence of the Trecento. The first half of the con
 ference took place in&nbsp\;London\, on Friday&nbsp\;and Saturday\, 1-2 
 March 2013\, at the National Gallery and the Wallace&nbsp\;Collection re
 spectively. &nbsp\;The study day at the National Gallery concentrated on
  the broad themes of the literary and visual responses of&nbsp\;the nine
 teenth century to the Trecento and on its growing importance to&nbsp\;co
 llectors of that period. The day at the Wallace covered a variety&nbsp\;
 of subjects including the different ways in which the Trecento was&nbsp\
 ;written about and discussed\, and the manner in which reproductions of&
 nbsp\;Trecento art were made and disseminated. To book one or both days 
 in London\, please visit the&nbsp\;conference website. The second half o
 f the conference was held in Venice\, on Friday and&nbsp\;Saturday\, 15-
 16 November 2013\, in partnership with the University of&nbsp\;Warwick a
 nd the Scuola Dottorale Interateneo Storia delle Arti. Topics&nbsp\;to b
 e discussed there include nineteenth-century European responses to&nbsp\
 ;Trecento architecture and sculpture\, music\, history\, connoisseurship
 &nbsp\;and artistic techniques. For further information please contact&n
 bsp\;Adriana Turpin.\n\nGiornate Di Studio Su Lorenzo Bartolini\n17-19 F
 ebruary\, Florence.&nbsp\;La Galleria dell'Accademia\, in collaborazione
  con il Gabinetto G. P. Vieusseux\, sta organizzando&nbsp\;Giornate di s
 tudio Lorenzo Bartolini.&nbsp\;Il convegno nasce a seguito della mostra 
 "Lorenzo Bartolini\, scultore del bello naturale"\, tenuta presso la Gal
 leria dell'Accademia nel 2011\, per approfondire nuove problematiche e a
 rgomenti più complessi\, ad esempio il rapporto con Genova e Parma\, ch
 e la mostra non ha potuto sviluppare.\n\nLa&nbsp\;Sculpture À Florence 
 Au Xve Siècle Et Ses Fonctions Dans L’espace Urbain\n6-7 December. Pa
 ris\, INHA et Auditorium du Louvre.&nbsp\;À Florence\, à partir du dé
 but du XVe siècle\, la sculpture devient&nbsp\;progressivement le vecte
 ur de discours politiques et civiques\, en&nbsp\;occupant une place maje
 ure au cœur de l’espace public. Ne remplissant&nbsp\;pas seulement un
 e fonction représentative du pouvoir politique ou&nbsp\;religieux\, ell
 e affecte l’espace urbain et les relations sociales. Les&nbsp\;statues
  ornent les places\, les marchés\, les églises\, mais aussi les&nbsp\;
 palais publics et privés\, les édifices des corporations marchandes&nb
 sp\;(Arti) et des confréries\, les hôpitaux\, contribuant à créer un
 e&nbsp\;nouvelle topographie des œuvres.&nbsp\;Ce colloque&nbsp\;est or
 ganisé en lien avec l’exposition&nbsp\;« Printemps de la&nbsp\;Renai
 ssance. La sculpture à Florence 1401 – 1464 »&nbsp\;(Palazzo Strozzi
 \,&nbsp\;Florence : 21 mars – 18 août 2013 \; Musée du Louvre\, Hall
  Napoléon : 23&nbsp\;septembre 2013 – 6 janvier 2014).&nbsp\;Entre au
 tres\, les principaux aspects qu’il s’agira de questionner sont:&nbs
 p\;le contexte politique et social florentin et l’émulation entre vil
 les\;&nbsp\;les lieux comme réceptacles d’un travail artistique et co
 mme porteurs&nbsp\;de sens pour la société urbaine\;&nbsp\;la récepti
 on des œuvres et leurs modes de présentation\;&nbsp\;les modalités de
  la commande et relations entre initiatives publiques&nbsp\;et privées\
 ;&nbsp\;l’humanisme et les réflexions sur la ville.\n\nReturn to Conf
 erences &amp\; Lectures
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