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Direttore della Bibliotheca Hertziana dal 1953 al 1962, Metternich ha riconosciuto nel disegno lo strumento più efficace per comprendere i progetti per la Basilica Vaticana. La mostra Disegnare per capire è concepita come un percorso tra schizzi e tavole di presentazione, seguendo pensieri interrotti e ipotesi abbandonate che hanno definito le forme dell’edificio attuale. [di più]

Chi esce entra - A Tribute Exhibition to a Disappearing Building

Exhibition curated by Simon Würsten Marin
The Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institute for Art History is pleased to announce Chi esce entra, a site-specific and one-time exhibition curated by Simon Würsten Marin.Group exhibition with Vincenzo Agnetti, Louise Bourgeois, Francesca Cornacchini, Jesse Darling, Eva Fàbregas, Tarik Hayward, margaretha jüngling, Thomas Julier, Tarik Kiswanson, Corrado Levi, Paul Maheke, Marie Matusz, Mónica Mays, Hana Miletić, Effe Minelli, Lulù Nuti, Francesca Pionati and Tommaso Arnaldi, Aurélien Potier, Hannah Quinlan & Rosie Hastings, Prem Sahib, Davide Stucchi, Grégory Sugnaux, Ian Waelder, Rachel Whiteread [di più]
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The digital publishing landscape in the humanities, particularly in art history, is evolving at an unprecedented pace. As new infrastructures, workflows, and technologies emerge, the exchange of ideas and experiences becomes essential for those at the forefront of this transformation [di più]
The Methodology Seminars for Art History in Ukraine: Epistemologies, Agencies, and Margins is a first edition of a two-year scholarly initiative committed to rethinking methodological approaches and future directions of art history within Ukraine. [di più]
The Bibliotheca Hertziana presents a Performance Night in the framework of the exhibition Chi esce entra at Via Gregoriana 9. The program includes performances by Lara Dâmaso, Sorour Darabi, Isam Abad Montalvo, and a music intervention by Zoess. [di più]
Presentation of the catalog of the exhibition Chi esce entra, followed by a panel discussion with Anna Puigjaner (ETH Zurich), Facundo Revuelta (University of Buenos Aires), Yousef Taha يوسف طه (RIWAQ, Ramallah), moderated by HE Shen 何珅 (ETH Zurich) [di più]

The Art History of Art Therapy

Workshop
The term ‘art therapy’ was coined in mid-twentieth century Europe, but its history reaches back into the nineteenth century. Its development as a clinical practice was as diverse as it was discontinuous: in different contexts, art therapy could serve as a means of healing and transformation, or as a tool of discipline and pathologization. Over the course of the twentieth century, the methods and institutions of art therapy have spread globally, intersecting with developments in modern aesthetics and art history in ways that remain largely unexplored. [di più]

The Role of Images in Early Modern Botany

Research Seminar
This seminar brings together two experts on sixteenth- and seventeenth-century plants. Zooming in on the dilemma of visualizing plants (or not), and how images could become part of epistemic methods will form the core of this discussion. [di più]

Corpi, spazi e potere: Sport e cultura visiva nell’Italia fascista

Workshop
Il workshop Corpi, spazi, potere: Sport e cultura visiva nell’Italia fascista esplora la dimensione storico-artistica e visiva dello sport nel Ventennio, dei suoi spazi e istituzioni, tra propaganda e possibilità di resistenza all’ideale dell’“uomo nuovo”. [di più]

Roma e i suoi contorni. Paesaggi dell’Heritage,flussi turistici e comunità

Seminario in due giornate: 11 novembre e 2 dicembre 2025
Due giornate di dibattito dedicate al rapporto tra Roma e i suoi dintorni, all’evoluzione del paesaggio urbano e alle trasformazioni dell’esperienza turistica contemporanea. L’iniziativa si ricollega alla mostra This is not the Rome I expected to see, frutto della collaborazione tra la Bibliotheca Hertziana di Roma e il Dipartimento di Architettura e Progetto – Sapienza Università di Roma nell’ambito del progetto PNRR Changes | Spoke 9 | linea 2. [di più]
La mostra This is not the Rome I expected to see indaga il modo in cui Roma con i suoi dintorni è stata descritta, rappresentata e attraversata tra XVIII e XX secolo tramite una selezione di quindici guide, provenienti dalla collezione Rara della Biblioteca Hertziana, e i diagrammi che rileggono in forma di segni i percorsi turistici presenti nelle guide del Touring Club Italiano (1925-1977) realizzati dalla Sapienza Università di Roma. [di più]

Blut: Metapher – Medium – Materie

Workshop
Wie kaum einer anderen Flüssigkeit wird Blut die Rolle eines in seiner symbolischen Komplexität wirkmächtig aufgeladenen Bedeutungsträgers zuteil. Dies zeigt sich medienübergreifend in einer ganzen Bandbreite von Objekten, deren semantische Vielschichtigkeit sich über jeweils ganz spezifische materialästhetische Eigenschaften von Blut zu entfalten vermag. [di più]
In this interdisciplinary seminar, an artist, an art historian, and a physicist come together to explore how the unseeable is observed. Starting from the Sun and the black hole the entanglement of the observer, site, and astronomical object is examined. [di più]

Gerechte Gewalt? Moralische Ambivalenzen in der Kunst der Frühen Neuzeit

Workshop
Die Frage, wann Gewalt moralisch verwerflich ist und ob bzw. unter welchen Bedingungen sie sich rechtfertigen lässt, ist gegenwärtig hochaktuell. Gleichzeitig erfordert sie eine kritische Reflexion und historische Perspektivierung – zu beiden soll der zweiteilige Workshop (Rom, Hamburg) einen Beitrag leisten. [di più]
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