(Im)material Michelangelo: Toward a Visual Historiography of Sculpture – Between Reproduction and Art-Historical Enquiry

Reproducing an artwork, independently of the purpose (artistic, documentary, or scientific) and of the medium used, inevitably involves acts of interpretation and remediation. This is particularly true for Michelangelo’s sculpture, due to his peculiar way of engaging with materials, as he overtly exposed traces of his working process through the uneven treatment of surfaces and the use of fragmented or sketched elements, according to the well-known poetics of the non finito. The conference will consider the transforming reception of Michelangelo’s plastic works and their translation in other media, like painting, drawing, printing, photography, and cinema, reconstructing the artist’s historiographic path over time and all over the globe.

Talks in English and Italian.

For participation via Zoom, you find the link HERE.

Scientific Organization: Giulia Daniele (Rome Art History Network), Daniele Di Cola (Koninklijk Nederlands Instituut Rome)
In collaboration with the Bibliotheca Hertziana, promoted by the Rome Art History Network (https://www.romearthistorynetwork.com).

Program

Tuesday, 25 May 2021

14:00
Welcome
Tristan Weddigen (Bibliotheca Hertziana, Roma)

14:05
RAHN Welcome
Ariane Varela Braga (Universität Zürich), Francesca Parrilla (University of Notre Dame, Rome Global Gateway)

14:10
Introduction
Giulia Daniele (Rome Art History Network), Daniele Di Cola (Koninklijk Nederlands Instituut Rome)

SESSION I
Chair: Tristan Weddigen

discussion
15:45 break

16:00
Lucia Simonato (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa)
Tra esecuzione e percezione. Appunti italo-francesi di fortuna michelangiolesca da Bernini a Carpeaux

16:20
Sara Vitacca (Université Paris 1 - Panthéon Sorbonne)
Michelangelo sul comò: bronzi, calchi e copie dall’artista negli interni dell’Ottocento

16:40
discussion

SESSION II
Chair: Tanja Michalsky (Bibliotheca Hertziana, Roma)

16:55
Tommaso Casini (Università IULM, Milano)
La Pietà e il Mosè di Michelangelo: filmare la violenza e la delicatezza

17:15
Joséphine Vandekerckhove (Universiteit Gent)
Michelangelo in Motion: The Artist’s Sculptures in Mid-Century Films on Art

17:35
discussion

Wednesday, 26 May 2021

SESSION III
Chair: Marco Ruffini (Sapienza Università di Roma)

14:00
Ilenia Falbo (Università della Calabria)
La circolazione dei modelli scultorei michelangioleschi nella stampa erudita romana di Restaurazione

14:20
Karolina Zgraja (Universität Zürich)
Heinrich Wölfflin’s Approach to Art-Historical Analysis of Sculpture in Die Jugendwerke des Michelangelo (1891)

14:40
Marc Michael Moser (Universität Wien)
Der Moses des Michelangelo: Freud and His Material

15:20 break

SESSION IV
Chair: Claudia Cieri Via, Sapienza Università di Roma

15:35
Giovanna Targia (Kunsthistorisches Institut, Firenze / Universität Zürich)
"Ein Materialfanatiker wie wenige": note su Erwin Panofsky interprete di Michelangelo

15:55
Emily Fenichel (Florida Atlantic University)
Michelangelo’s Pietà in St. Peter’s: Reception, Replica, and Relic

16:15
Rosalia Pagliarani (Musei Vaticani)
Controfigure eloquenti. Il ruolo delle copie novecentesche della Pietà vaticana tra Esposizioni Universali e restauro

16:35
discussion