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
  • Inizio: 11.06.2026
  • Fine: 31.07.2026
  • Relatore: Research Exhibition
  • Luogo: Bibliotheca Hertziana, Palazzo Zuccari, Sala del Disegno, Via Gregoriana 30, 00187 Roma
  • Contatto: 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. [di più]

Shoptalks

Workshop
  • Public event without registration
  • Data: 03.07.2026
  • Ora: 09:15 - 16:45
  • Relatore: Marina Barzon, Diogo de Barros, Alexandre Claude, Sharifa Lookman, Virginia Magnaghi, Ariane Milicev, Anita Ortez, Michela Young
  • Luogo: Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rome
  • Contatto: raffaele.rossi@biblhertz.it
In this one-day event, fellows share insights and findings from the research projects they are undertaking at the Bibliotheca Hertizana. [di più]

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

Lecture
  • Public event without registration
  • Data: 14.07.2026
  • Ora: 18:00 - 19:30
  • Relatore: Vincent Debiais
  • Luogo: Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rome and online (Vimeo)
  • Contatto: 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. [di più]
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