2018
Alessandro Vanoli (Independent Scholar, Rome Italy) received the IAS/Kress Travel Grant to present his paper “Hercules in Sicily: The Mediterranean Past in Fifteenth-Century African and Spanish Sources” at the 64th annual meeting of the Renaissance Society of America in New Orleans in 2018. The paper was part of an IAS-Sponsored panel titled “Beyond Scylla and Charybdis: Exchanges between Early Modern Sicily, Spain, and North Africa I” organized by Cristelle L. Baskins (Tufts University) and Elizabeth Kassler-Taub (Case Western Reserve University).
Antonio Urquízar (Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Madrid, Spain) received the IAS/Kress Travel Grant to present his paper “Early Modern Spanish Descriptions of North African Architecture” at the 64th annual meeting of the Renaissance Society of America in New Orleans in 2018. The paper was part of an IAS-Sponsored panel titled “Beyond Scylla and Charybdis: Exchanges between Early Modern Sicily, Spain, and North Africa II” organized by Cristelle L. Baskins (Tufts University) and Elizabeth Kassler-Taub (Case Western Reserve University).
2016
Giada Damen (The Morgan Library & Museum) presented her paper “Relics of the Antique Gods in Sixteenth Century Venice” in August of this year at the annual meeting of the Sixteenth Century Society & Conference (SCSC) in Bruges, Belgium. The paper formed part of an IAS-sponsored panel titled “The Holy Republic of Venice,” organized by Allison Sherman (Queen’s University) and Eveline Baseggio Omiccioli (State University of New York, FIT).
Alexis Culotta (American Academy of Art, Chicago) organized the IAS-sponsored session at SCSC in Bruges titled “Coopetition: Testing the Bounds of Cooperation and Competition” and presented in the panel a paper entitled “Co-opetition and Its Basis in Renaissance Art History: An Overview.”
Thanks to the generosity of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, we are delighted to be able to support the transoceanic travel of seven Italian Art Society members who will present papers in IAS sponsored sessions at the following conferences: College Art Association (CAA), Klaus Krüger (Freie Universität, Berlin); Renaissance Society of America (RSA), Sabina de Cavi (Universidad de Córdoba, Cordova), Anna Marazuela Kim (Courtauld Institute of Art, London), Pietro Roccasecca (Accademia di Belle Arti, Rome), and Guendalina Serafinelli (Università di Roma “La Sapienza,” Rome); International Congress on Medieval Studies (ICMS at Kalamazoo), Christiane Martina Elster (Bibliotheca Hertziana, Rome) and Giuseppa Zanichelli (Università degli Studi di Salerno).
2015
Emily Fenichel (Florida Atlantic University), “Beyond the spirituali: Vittoria Colonna, Michelangelo, and Meditation,” 61st Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America, Berlin, 26 March 2015. Read abstract
Marjorie Och (University of Mary Washington), “Colonna and Michelangelo on the Quirinal,” 61st Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America, Berlin, 26 March 2015. Read abstract
2014
Francesca dell’Acqua, “The Salerno School of Medicine, the Heritage of Archbishop Alphanus, and the Narrative Program of the Salerno Ivories,” 49th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, 8-11 May (withdrawn)
Peter Dent, “‘No empty work’: Giovanni Pisano and the Status of Sculpture,” 60th Annual Meeting, Renaissance Society of America, New York, 27-29 March
Reinhart Rupert Metzner, “Two Abbeys between Frontiers: Casamari and Fossanova and Their Key Function in Theology, Politics, and Architecture in the Times of Henry VI of Hohenstaufen,” 49th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, 8-11 May
Elinor Myara Kelif, “Private Delectation: Jacopo Zucchi’s Cabinet Paintings for Cardinal Ferdinando de’ Medici,” 60th Annual Meeting, Renaissance Society of America, New York, 27-29 March
Nicoletta Pazzaglia, “Psychiatric Photography, Gender, and the Quest for National Identity in Fin-de-Siecle Italy,” American Association for Italian Studies Annual Conference, Zurich, 23-25 May
Rebecca Raynor, “The Church of S. Lucia alle Malve: Cultural Mixing in a Kitchen Nightmare,” 49th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, 8-11 May
Itay Sapir, “The Repressed Watershed: 1600, the Early Modern, and the Moderne,” 102nd Annual Conference, College Art Association, Chicago, 12-15 February
Elisabetta Scirocco, “A Syncretic Model and Its Success: The Liturgical Installations at Salerno,” 49th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, 8-11 May
Karolina Zgraja, “Stillness as Devotional Function in Altarpieces by Giovanni Bellini,” 60th Annual Meeting, Renaissance Society of America, New York, 27-29 March
2013
Rebekah Perry, “The Medieval Wooden Deposition Groups of Central Italy: Problems of Iconography and Ritual Function,” American Association for Italian Studies, 2013, April, Eugene, Oregon.
2012
Michele Luigi Vescovi, “Defining Territories and Borders in Italian Romanesque Architecture: Regions, Sub-regions, Meta-regions,” 100th College Art Association Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, 22-25 February
Daniele Rivoletti, “Pinturicchio’s Coronation of Pius III: The Interests of a Family in a Republican Context,” Renaissance Society of America, Washington, D.C., 22-24 March
Christine Ungruh, “Kairos. On the Efficacy of a Classical Motif in Italian Medieval Art” 47th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo
2009
Cristina Filippini (American University of Rome), “The Eve of ‘Roma Capitale’ and the Discovery of Early Christian San Clemente,” 97th College Art Association Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, 25-28 February
Laura Jacobus (Birbeck College, University of London), “Painting, Politics, and Performance in Later Fourteenth-Century Padua,” 44th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo
2008
Cristina Filippini (American University of Rome), “Revival or Continuity? Modes of Production in Medieval Roman Painting,” 43rd International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo
Machtelt Israëls (University of Amsterdam), “Polyptychs without Painting: Sassetta, Piero della Francesca, and the Rejection of Unpainted Carpentered Altarpieces,” Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting, Chicago, 3-5 April
Monika Müller (Universitätsstadt Tübingen), “Apostles, Popes, Saints and Sinners –Sacred Concepts of Spiritual and Political Power in a New Guise at San Pietro al Monte di Civate (Italy),” 43rd International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo
Jonathan Nelson (Syracuse University in Florence), “Quality Control for Commissions: The Potential for Rejection or Replacement” (presented with Richard Zeckhauser, Harvard University), Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting, Chicago, 3-5 April
Stefano Riccioni (CNRS), “The Novelty of Tradition. Reforming Antiquity in Eleventh- to Twelfth-Century Rome,” 43rd International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo (declined)
2004
Andreas Beyer (Universität Basel), “The Florentine Rendezvous of Future Enemies,” Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting, New York, 1-3 April
Erica Neri-Lusanna (Università degli Studi di Firenze), “Arnolfo’s Florentine Works,” 39th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo