Events

Image Making as Knowledge Production: Earth, Heavens, and Body

Research Exhibition curated by MPRG Visualizing Science in Media Revolutions: Nina Caviezel, Alexandre Claude, Sietske Fransen, Giulia Simonini
  • Start: Jun 11, 2026
  • End: Jul 31, 2026
  • Speaker: Research Exhibition
  • Location: Bibliotheca Hertziana, Palazzo Zuccari, Sala del Disegno, Via Gregoriana 30, 00187 Roma
  • Contact: katja.hackstein@biblhertz.it
In this exhibition, we show that images were part of a process. A process of observation, of experimentation, and/or of discovery, of which we exhibit here the printed version. Making images, especially drawing (disegnare), was at the basis of many early modern sciences, as this room also shows (Sala del Disegno by Federico Zuccari. [more]

Flash and Form: The Transfiguration’s Paradox in Medieval Images

Lecture
  • Public event without registration
  • Date: Jul 14, 2026
  • Time: 06:00 PM - 07:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Vincent Debiais
  • Location: Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rome and online (Vimeo)
  • Contact: rossi@biblhertz.it
The depictions of the Transfiguration produced in the Western tradition to stage Christ’s bodily metamorphosis and his divine manifestation provide a rich framework to consider how Christian images represents fugacity, instability, and intermittence. [more]
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