SCSC Annual Conference, Bruges, Belgium, 18-20 August 2016

In addition to a reception co-organized by the IAS at the Groeningemuseum on 19 August, the society also sponsored two sessions were at the recent SCSC Conference in Bruges.

Sessions Sponsored by the Italian Art Society

Session Title: Co-opetition: Testing the Bounds of Cooperation and Competition
Burgh III
Saturday, August 20, 2016, 3:30-5:00pm
Organizer: Alexis R. Culotta, American Academy of Art and the Art Institute of Chicago
Speakers/Papers:
Alexis Culotta, American Academy of Art, “Co-opetition and Its Basis in Renaissance Art History: An Overview”
Anne E. Proctor, Roger Williams University, “Co-opetition on Display: Florentine and non-Florentine Sculptors and the Studiolo of Prince Francesco de’ Medici”
Saida Bondini, Courtaud Institute of Art, “Oltra le lode, un presente onoratissimo: Networks of Family Patronage and Two Bolognese Churches”

Session Title: The Holy Republic of Venice
NH Hotel, Sint Pieters
Thursday, August 18, 2016, 3:30-5:00pm
Organizers: Allison Sherman, Queen’s University, and Eveline Baseggio Omiccioli, State University of New York, FIT
Chair: Patricia Fortini Brown, Princeton University, emeritus
Speakers/Papers:
Giada Damen, The Morgan Library & Museum, “Relics of the Antique Gods in Sixteenth Century Venice”
Chiara Frison, Centro Studi Medievali e Rinascimentali “Emmanuele Antonio Cicogna”, “'La nobil [et sancta] cità de Venetia' in Giorgio Dolfin’s Chronicle”
Janna Israel, Virginia Commonwealth University, “Renewing the Santa Republica: The Translation of St. Athanasius to Venice”