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‚Andere‘ Kunst der Frühen Neuzeit? Kulturelle Hybridität und der kunsthistorische Kanon

Kunsthistorische Konstruktionen ‚anderer‘ Renaissancen – in Abgrenzung zu den im Fach traditionell als kanonbildend angesehenen Kunstzentren – offenbaren in vielen Fällen nicht nur ein beharrliches Festhalten des Fachs an anachronistischen Hierarchisierungen von Kunstlandschaften und Epochennarrativen, sondern auch ein persistentes Unbehagen im Umgang mit Kunstwerken, die sich durch signifikante kulturelle Syntheseleistungen auszeichnen. [di più]

Lucio Costa and the "Brazilian Race:" Intellectual Sites of Entanglements

Research Seminar
Patricio del Real returns to the construction of Brazilianness in architecture galvanized by the modernist conversion of architect and theoretician Lucio Costa & draws a larger intellectual European geography that hides behind Costa’s well-known turn to Portuguese colonial traditions. [di più]

Boundaries, Passages, and the Movement of Media: The Painted Screen-Walls of Franciscan Observant Churches in the Italian Alps

Research Seminar
Medieval or Renaissance? Germanic or Italian? Inclusive or exclusionary? Painting, sculpture, or architecture? Documentary or visionary? When it comes to the painted screen-walls in churches of the Italian Alps, the answer to all these questions is, if not a resounding yes, then at least, it’s complicated. [di più]

Empty Boxes? Modeling the Lost and Ephemeral in Premodern Sacred Spaces

Interdisciplinary Conference
Premodern sacred space was never in stasis. It was moving and active; in flux by definition, it poses many difficulties for historical narrative, conservation, and restoration practices. This two day international conference highlights some of the most recent methodological questions and approaches to modeling unstable materials and activities. [di più]

Renaissance Architectural Drawing Beyond Paper

Research Seminar
Scholarship on Renaissance architectural drawing focuses overwhelmingly on works on paper, Yet building designs in this period were often also traced on walls and floors or out of string. This seminar explores the symbolic and experiential implications of this expanded understanding of graphic creation. [di più]

From France to the Qing Court: Tapestries as Cross-cultural Textiles

Research Seminar
Large-scale pictorial tapestries ranked among the most precious art forms in the early modern period. While their circulations and functions among European courts have been well studied, less known are their journeys to China and subsequent roles in stimulating new developments in Qing imperial arts. [di più]
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