Events Archive

La città sotto inchiesta: Cortile Cascino (R.M. Young e M. Roemer, 1962); Licht für Palermo (Karl Gass, 1961)

Ciclo di Film Seminars
  • Evento pubblico senza registrazione / Attenzione nuova data per analisi e discussione: 20.04.2026
  • Start: Apr 14, 2026 06:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • End: Apr 20, 2026 12:00 PM
  • Speaker: Ciclo "La città sotto inchiesta"
  • Location: Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Roma
  • Contact: rossi@biblhertz.it
La città è un enigma di importanza nodale per l’Italia del secondo dopoguerra. Lo testimonia la vasta produzione audiovisiva che, tra la metà degli anni Cinquanta e gli anni Sessanta, è dedicata all’osservazione dello spazio urbano. In continuità con gli incontri dedicati alla rappresentazione del lavoro femminile e al cinema etnografico di Luigi Di Gianni, la Bibliotheca Hertziana propone un ciclo di seminari intorno al genere della inchiesta filmata – per usare la felice definizione di Claudio Bertieri. [more]

La città sotto inchiesta: Meridionali a Torino (B. Giordani e U. Zatterin, 1961); Fata Morgana (L. del Fra 1961)

Ciclo di Film Seminars
  • Evento pubblico senza registrazione
  • Start: Mar 31, 2026 06:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • End: Apr 1, 2026 12:00 PM
  • Speaker: Ciclo "La città sotto inchiesta"
  • Location: Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22 e Palazzo Zuccari, Via Gregoriana 28
  • Contact: rossi@biblhertz.it
La città è un enigma di importanza nodale per l’Italia del secondo dopoguerra. Lo testimonia la vasta produzione audiovisiva che, tra la metà degli anni Cinquanta e gli anni Sessanta, è dedicata all’osservazione dello spazio urbano. In continuità con gli incontri dedicati alla rappresentazione del lavoro femminile e al cinema etnografico di Luigi Di Gianni, la Bibliotheca Hertziana propone un ciclo di seminari intorno al genere della inchiesta filmata – per usare la felice definizione di Claudio Bertieri. [more]

Material Histories of Italian Colonialism

Conference
  • Site: Columbia University, New York and online
  • Date: Mar 26, 2026
  • Speaker: International Conference
  • Location: Italian Academy, Columbia University, New York, USA and online (Zoom)
  • Contact: freiberg@biblhertz.it
Building on the conference Colonial Objects held at the Bibliotheca Hertziana - Max Planck Institute for Art History (Rome) in December 2025, this one-day event gathers scholars from different disciplines and with a variety of interests to explore the material culture of Italian colonialism. We will rethink Italian colonialism by offering a forum for discussing the historical significance and contemporary legacies of colonial objects. [more]

Water Worlds: Early Modern Depictions of the Element Water and Aquatic Life

Research Seminar
  • Public event without registration
  • Date: Mar 25, 2026
  • Time: 02:00 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Christine Göttler, Didi van Trijp
  • Location: Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rome and online
  • Contact: katja.hackstein@biblhertz.it
In this interdisciplinary research seminar, an early modern art historian and a historian of science will join our group to explore how it was possible for artists to grasp aquatic life and water forces. Despite being regarded as unattainable and hostile, water and its environment enticed human thirst for knowledge. The visual material presented in the seminar will enable us to dive into the early modern water worlds and examine early modern understanding water as an element that could both breed and destroy life. [more]

Black Hole | Black Box: Limits, Opacity, and the Unknown Across Art, Science, and Media

Conference
  • Public event without registration
  • Start: Mar 19, 2026 01:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • End: Mar 20, 2026 06:00 PM
  • Speaker: Conference
  • Location: Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rome and online
  • Contact: katja.hackstein@biblhertz.it
This conference examines limits, opacity, and the unknown by bringing together two notions from very different domains: the black hole of astrophysics and the black box of computation in which theoretical and empirical boundaries are reached. [more]

The Volcano and the Firefly: Dwelling with Disaster at Different Scales

Research Seminar
  • Public event without registration
  • Date: Mar 13, 2026
  • Time: 11:00 AM - 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Jasmine C. Pisapia, Ulrich van Loyen
  • Location: Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, RM 00187 Rome and online (Vimeo)
  • Contact: rossi@biblhertz.it
The Mezzogiorno goes well beyond the “campania felix” – it is charged with toxicity and environmental violence. Speaking about the collective appropriation of the endangered and endangering aspects of Italian landscape, Jasmine C. Pisapia offers a new approach to the ethics and aesthetics of the South. [more]

Le viaggiatrici | Weibliche Reisende | Female Travelers

Mostra di ricerca
  • Start: Mar 11, 2026
  • End: Apr 30, 2026
  • Speaker: Mostra curata da Philine Helas
  • Location: Bibliotheca Hertziana, Palazzo Zuccari, Sala del Disegno, Via Gregoriana 30, 00187 Roma
La letteratura di viaggio costituisce uno dei nuclei storici della collezione della Bibliotheca Hertziana. Nei secoli passati, i viaggiatori erano prevalentemente uomini, impegnati in viaggi educativi nel contesto del Grand Tour, missioni militari o spostamenti con scopi economici o scientifici. Di conseguenza, la maggior parte dei resoconti di viaggio è stata redatta da uomini, principalmente sotto forma di diari o lettere. Tuttavia, anche le donne si avventuravano in viaggi e spesso li documentavano, con aspirazioni letterarie e talvolta artistiche. La nostra selezione offre uno sguardo su come, attraverso diverse pubblicazioni realizzate tra il 1776 e il 1936, le donne abbiano rappresentato le loro esperienze di viaggio personali in un campo fino ad allora dominato dagli uomini. [more]

La città sotto inchiesta: I misteri di Roma (C. Zavattini, 1963)

Ciclo di Film Seminars
  • Evento pubblico senza registrazione
  • Start: Mar 10, 2026 06:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • End: Mar 11, 2026 12:00 PM
  • Speaker: Ciclo "La città sotto inchiesta"
  • Location: Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22 e Palazzo Zuccari, Via Gregoriana 28
  • Contact: rossi@biblhertz.it
La città è un enigma di importanza nodale per l’Italia del secondo dopoguerra. Lo testimonia la vasta produzione audiovisiva che, tra la metà degli anni Cinquanta e gli anni Sessanta, è dedicata all’osservazione dello spazio urbano. In continuità con gli incontri dedicati alla rappresentazione del lavoro femminile e al cinema etnografico di Luigi Di Gianni, la Bibliotheca Hertziana propone un ciclo di seminari intorno al genere della inchiesta filmata – per usare la felice definizione di Claudio Bertieri. [more]

Renaissance Techniques as Living Practice: Material Knowledge and Artistic Thinking Across Research and Education

Talk
  • Public event without registration
  • Date: Mar 3, 2026
  • Time: 06:00 PM - 07:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Gleb Shtyrmer
  • Location: Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rome and online
  • Contact: Editorial-LMG@biblhertz.it
This talk examines techniques as embodied forms of inquiry that inform how we interpret art, structure artistic education, and understand the relationship between thinking and making. [more]

Maarten van Heemskerck e il Fascino di Roma. Percorsi visivi della Città Eterna

Mostra
  • Sede: Palazzo Poli, via Poli 54, 00187 Roma
  • Start: Mar 3, 2026
  • End: Jun 7, 2026
  • Speaker: Una mostra dell’Istituto Centrale per la Grafica in collaborazione con il Kupferstichkabinett dei Musei Statali di Berlino e la Bibliotheca Hertziana – Istituto Max Planck per la storia dell’arte
  • Location: Palazzo Poli, Via Poli 54, 00187 Roma
Il pittore olandese Maarten van Heemskerck (1498–1574) fu uno dei primi artisti nordici a recarsi a Roma per studiare l’arte e l’architettura antica e moderna e confrontarsi con le «magnificenze» della Città Eterna. I suoi disegni sono di straordinaria qualità e bellezza, e costituiscono un affascinante resoconto visivo di quel fondamentale viaggio di formazione. [more]

It’s Complicated: Landscapes and the Dynamics of Unfolding in Medieval and Early Modern Painting

  • Public event without registration
  • Date: Feb 23, 2026
  • Time: 11:00 AM - 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Gerd Micheluzzi
  • Location: Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Roma
  • Contact: raffaele.rossi@biblhertz.it
The term of “unfolding” is frequently used within phenomenological approaches to landscape. Gerd Micheluzzi reconsiders its analytical promise by examining medieval and early modern landscape representations, informed by an experimental pilgrimage along the Via Francigena. [more]

Provenance before Provenance Research. Medieval Moral Economies and the Legitimacy of Byzantine Booty in Halberstadt Cathedral after the Fourth Crusade (1204)

Research Seminar
  • Public event without registration
  • Date: Feb 17, 2026
  • Time: 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Isabelle Dolezalek
  • Location: Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rome
  • Contact: raffaele.rossi@biblhertz.it
Can the tools and questions of modern provenance research be adapted to the study of medieval objects? What new perspectives might such an approach offer on the circulation and meaning of material culture, on legitimacy and moral reasoning in the premodern period? The seminar explores these and further questions using the case study of objects that are now kept in the cathedral treasury of Halberstadt, that were acquired in Constantinople in the wake of the Fourth Crusade. [more]

Shoptalks

Workshop
  • Public event without registration
  • Date: Feb 10, 2026
  • Time: 09:15 AM - 04:45 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Valentina Bartalesi, Ferruccio Botto, Luigi Crea, Maria Stella Di Trapani, Alberto Pirro, Yasmin Riyahi, Daniel Santiago Sáenz, Alberto Virdis
  • Location: Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rome
  • Contact: mara.freiberg@biblhertz.it
In this one-day event, fellows share insights and findings from the research projects they are undertaking at the Bibliotheca Hertizana. [more]

Generative Curation Symposium: Debates Around Archival and Exhibition Practices

International Conference
The Generative Curation Symposium explores how AI questions, reshapes, and intersects curatorial practice—from exhibitions to archives. A gathering to critically examine AI integration within art and cultural heritage institutions. [more]

Reconstructing Early-Modern Spaces: Digital Practices and Architectural History

Workshop
  • Public event without registration
  • Date: Jan 15, 2026
  • Time: 05:30 PM - 08:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Workshop with Eric Hupe and Ludovica Galeazzo
  • Location: Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rome and online
  • Contact: freiberg@biblhertz.it
In January 2026, the Bibliotheca Hertziana will undergo a complete 3D scan of its premises — from the photogrammetric capture of Federico Zuccari's frescoes to a full LiDAR scanning of the complex intertwining of volumes and floors. To mark the beginning of the project and frame it within larger perspectives, this event will address the use of 3D modelling techniques for research in architectural history, and look beyond claims of objectivity to focus on their interpretative value. The two keynotes will showcase the use of digital practices for the study of Italian Renaissance architecture and the reconstruction of hypothetical past spaces. A following roundtable, with experts from the Hertziana and abroad, will tackle pressing epistemic questions such as: Can the normativity of computational methods be compatible with limited and uncertain sources? How should one navigate the interpretative potential of visual models as well as their seductive risk? What pedagogical value do they convey? Are 3D models even a necessity of Digital Architectural History? [more]

Le visioni di Luigi di Gianni. Cinema, rito, possessione

Workshop
  • Evento pubblico senza registrazione
  • Start: Jan 14, 2026 05:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • End: Jan 15, 2026 01:00 PM
  • Speaker: Mattia Cinquegrani, Stefano De Matteis, Francesco Faeta e Irene Pantaleo
  • Location: Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Roma
  • Contact: raffaele.rossi@biblhertz.it
Il workshop Le visioni di Luigi Di Gianni è un’occasione per riconsiderare il rapporto tra cinema documentario, antropologia e rappresentazione del sacro attraverso tre film del regista Grazia e numeri (1961), Il male di San Donato (1965) e La possessione (1971). [more]

Of Bricks and Rafters: Granada’s Waste Archives in Perspective

Research Seminar
  • Date: Dec 15, 2025
  • Time: 02:00 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: María Lumbreras
  • Location: Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rome
  • Contact: Editorial-LMG@biblhertz.it
At the turn of the 1570s, vast portions of the Albaicín and Alcazaba neighborhoods in Granada underwent a double process of ruination. Houses there first suffered the devastation of two years of armed conflict, during the Alpujarras war, which had started as a Morisco revolt in these very neighborhoods in the winter of 1568. Then, after Philip II forced the exile of most of city’s population of Muslim descent as punishment for the rebellion, through deportations that began in the winter of 1569, most of these houses were abandoned. As walls and roofs began to crumble, the Spanish crown instituted a policy that extended its punitive agenda to the urban fabric: it was established that all residential buildings that had belonged to resettled Moriscos would be left to deteriorate. [more]

Gerechte Gewalt? Moralische Ambivalenzen in der Kunst der Frühen Neuzeit

Workshop
  • Öffentliche Veranstaltung ohne Voranmeldung
  • Start: Dec 11, 2025 02:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • End: Dec 12, 2025 01:00 PM
  • Speaker: Workshop
  • Location: Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rom
  • Contact: raffaele.rossi@biblhertz.it
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. [more]

Colonial Objects: The Material Culture of Italian Colonialism

International Conference
  • Public event without registration
  • Start: Dec 4, 2025
  • End: Dec 5, 2025
  • Speaker: International Conference
  • Location: Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rome and online
  • Contact: freiberg@biblhertz.it
“Colonial Objects: The Material Culture of Italian Colonialism” is an international, interdisciplinary conference that addresses the production and circulation of objects to understand their active role in shaping colonial imaginaries, visual culture, and imperial ideologies, both in Italy and abroad. [more]

Focus su Palermo

Research Seminar
  • Public event without registration
  • Date: Dec 3, 2025
  • Time: 10:00 AM - 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Flaminia Ferlito, Alberto Pirro, Nicholas Berrettini, Andrea Gelardi
  • Location: Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, RM 00187 Rome and online (Vimeo)
  • Contact: rossi@biblhertz.it
A conclusione del primo ciclo del programma “Viaggio a Palermo” (una collaborazione tra la Bibliotheca Hertziana – MPI e la Fondazione Palazzo Butera), saranno presentati e discussi quattro progetti di ricerca promossi dal Dipartimento Michalsky dedicati alla città di Palermo, al suo patrimonio storico-artistico e monumentale e alla sua rappresentazione turistica e cinematografica. [more]

The Sun’s Glow, the Black Hole’s Shade: Where Observation Begins & Ends

Research Seminar
  • Public event without registration
  • Date: Nov 27, 2025
  • Time: 11:00 AM - 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Eszter Polónyi, Sašo Grozdanov, Rohini Devasher
  • Location: Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rome and online
  • Contact: katja.hackstein@biblhertz.it
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. [more]

Blut: Metapher – Medium – Materie

Workshop
  • Öffentliche Veranstaltung ohne Voranmeldung
  • Start: Nov 24, 2025 09:45 AM (Local Time Germany)
  • End: Nov 25, 2025 01:00 PM
  • Speaker: Workshop
  • Location: Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rom
  • Contact: raffaele.rossi@biblhertz.it
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. [more]

This is not the Rome I expected to see: Narrazioni, sguardi e itinerari nelle guide di Roma e dintorni (1763–1925)

Mostra di ricerca
  • Start: Nov 12, 2025
  • End: Jan 31, 2026
  • Speaker: Mostra
  • Location: Bibliotheca Hertziana, Palazzo Zuccari, Sala del Disegno, Via Gregoriana 30, 00187 Roma
  • Contact: raffaele.rossi@biblhertz.it
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. [more]

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

Seminario
  • Evento pubblico senza registrazione
  • Date: Nov 11, 2025
  • Time: 03:00 PM - 06:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Seminario in collaborazione con "Sapienza Università di Roma"
  • Location: Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Roma
  • Contact: raffaele.rossi@biblhertz.it
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. [more]

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

Workshop
  • Evento pubblico senza registrazione
  • Date: Nov 7, 2025
  • Time: 10:00 AM - 05:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Workshop
  • Location: Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Roma e online
  • Contact: freiberg@biblhertz.it
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”. [more]

The Role of Images in Early Modern Botany

Research Seminar
  • Public event without registration
  • Date: Nov 6, 2025
  • Time: 11:00 AM - 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speakers: Fabrizio Baldassarri and Jessie Wei-Hsuan Chen
  • Location: Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rom und online
  • Contact: katja.hackstein@biblhertz.it
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. [more]

The Art History of Art Therapy

Workshop
  • Public event without registration
  • Start: Nov 4, 2025
  • End: Nov 5, 2025
  • Speakers: Workshop
  • Location: Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rome and online
  • Contact: freiberg@biblhertz.it
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. [more]

Chi esce entra Catalog Presentation and Panel Discussion “Impossible Architecture: On Restoring Buildings and Cultural Memory”

Panel discussion
  • With Preregistration
  • Date: Oct 30, 2025
  • Time: 05:00 PM - 07:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Anna Puigjaner, Yousef Taha, Facundo Revuelta, HE Shen
  • Location: Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rome
  • Contact: silvia.carletti@biblhertz.it
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) [more]

Performance Night: Chi esce entra. A Tribute Exhibition for a Disappearing Building

Performance Night
  • The event is fully booked
  • Date: Oct 29, 2025
  • Time: 06:00 PM - 10:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Lara Dâmaso, Sorour Darabi, Isam Abad Montalvo, ZOESS
  • Location: Via Gregoriana 9, 00187 Roma
  • Contact: silvia.carletti@biblhertz.it
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. [more]

Methodology Seminars for Art History in Ukraine: Epistemologies, Agencies, and Margins

  • Public event without registration
  • Start: Oct 27, 2025 03:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • End: Oct 31, 2025 03:00 PM
  • Speaker: Research Seminar
  • Location: Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rome and online
  • Contact: mara.freiberg@biblhertz.it
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. [more]

The Latin American Diaspora in Italy in the 1970s. Photographs and Portraits by Cecilia Fajardo

Exhibition
  • Venue: Istituto Cervantes, Piazza Navona 91, 00198 Roma
  • Start: Oct 24, 2025
  • End: Nov 11, 2025
  • Speaker: Exhibition
  • Location: Istituto Cervantes, Piazza Navona 91, 00198 Roma
  • Contact: cenrom@cervantes.esroma.cervantes.es
The exhibition presents previously unpublished photographs by Colombian artist Cecilia Fajardo (b. 1936), taken during the 1970s, documenting the intense intellectual networks of Latin American writers, artists, and filmmakers who found a crucial creative space in Italy, especially Rome, after World War II. Fajardo's images offer a dynamic and complex portrait of the era, showcasing everything from political posters to graffiti, fashion shows, and cultural events. [more]
The image is a composition of a page digitization and code to illustrate the topic of the conference

Digital Publishing for Art History

Conference
  • Public event without registration
  • Start: Oct 23, 2025
  • End: Oct 24, 2025
  • Speaker: International Conference
  • Location: Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rome and online
  • Host: Bibliotheca Hertziana - Max-Planck-Institut für Kunstgeschichte
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 [more]

Hidden Layers: Varnishes and Technical Challenges in the Study and Conservation of Italian Divisionist Paintings

Research Seminar
  • Public event without registration
  • Date: Oct 20, 2025
  • Time: 05:00 PM - 07:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: A conversation between Davide Gasparotto and Christian Tortato
  • Location: Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rome
  • Contact: internship01@biblhertz.it
What stories does varnish tell? By tracing the fine line between an artist’s hand and later interventions, this seminar explores how advances in conservation help rethink the painted surface. [more]

Shoptalks

Workshop
  • Public event without registration
  • Date: Oct 20, 2025
  • Time: 09:45 AM - 03:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Ellen Charlesworth, Cecilia Goletti, Rebecca Johnson, Eelco Nagelsmit, Luc Wodzicki, Nora Lambert
  • Location: Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rome
  • Contact: mara.freiberg@biblhertz.it
In this one-day event, fellows share insights and findings from the research projects they are undertaking at the Bibliotheca Hertizana. [more]

Metamorphosis and the Digital

Workshop
  • Public event without registration
  • Start: Oct 14, 2025 02:45 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • End: Oct 15, 2025 03:30 PM
  • Speaker: Workshop
  • Location: Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rome and online
  • Contact: katja.hackstein@biblhertz.it
Following the conference Metamorfosi nelle/delle immagini (Rome, September 2024), this second edition, Metamorphosis and the Digital, explores the intersections of iconology, intermediality, and digital humanities at a moment when multimodal AI is reshaping the study of images and texts. [more]

Chi esce entra - A Tribute Exhibition to a Disappearing Building

Exhibition curated by Simon Würsten Marin
  • Extended until November 23, 2025
  • Start: Oct 10, 2025
  • End: Nov 23, 2025
  • Speaker: Exhibition curated by Simon Würsten Marin
  • Location: Via Gregoriana 9, 00187 Roma
  • Contact: silvia.carletti@biblhertz.it
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 [more]

Disegnare per capire: Franz Graf Wolff-Metternich e la genesi della nuova Basilica di San Pietro. Ipotesi e ricostruzioni (1953–1978)

Mostra di ricerca in sede e online
  • Start: Oct 9, 2025
  • End: Jun 26, 2026
  • Speaker: Mostra di ricerca curata da Marta Guaglianone, Golo Maurer, Vitale Zanchettin
  • Location: Palazzo Zuccari (Foyer, Sala Terrena), Via Gregoriana 30, 00187 Roma
  • Contact: anna.wilkens@biblhertz.it
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. [more]

Che cos’è il Sud? Riflessioni sulla “terra inappropriabile”

Research Seminar
  • Evento pubblico senza registrazione
  • Date: Oct 1, 2025
  • Time: 11:00 AM - 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Leonardo Mastromauro
  • Location: Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Roma e online
  • Contact: raffaele.rossi@biblhertz.it
Nelle ultime decadi la critica decoloniale e postcoloniale ha riaperto il dibattito sul Sud, senza però chiarirne la natura. In questo seminario Leonardo Mastromauro lo interroga come intensità che destituisce le operazioni del potere. [more]

Art and Labour in the Age of AI

Workshop
  • Date: Sep 29, 2025
  • Time: 10:00 AM - 05:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Workshop
  • Location: Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rome and online
  • Contact: katja.hackstein@biblhertz.it
From the nineteenth century onwards, progressive historians emphasized labour as central to social history, and to artistic practice itself: the artist as worker. But what becomes of this view when labour—artistic as well as non-artistic—is fundamentally reframed by artificial intelligence? This question connects directly to the work of Hans Hess, the German Jewish émigré art historian who introduced museology to the UK and played a decisive role in the postwar reception of German Expressionism. Hess placed labour at the centre of art history, and his many unpublished writings are now coming to light through an ongoing archival project. [more]

Art, Mobility and Border Politics between Italy and North Africa: 1869 – 1993

Workshop
  • Public event without registration
  • Start: Sep 25, 2025 02:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • End: Sep 26, 2025 01:30 PM
  • Speaker: Workshop
  • Location: Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rome and online
  • Contact: freiberg@biblhertz.it
This workshop explores the entanglement of artistic production, human mobility and border politics between Italy and North Africa from the mid-nineteenth through the twentieth century. Its main objective is to challenge the hegemony of European and North American models in studies of modern Italian art, shedding light on the interconnectedness of culture, history and politics across the Mediterranean. [more]

When Is the Colonial Built Environment Neither in the Past nor Far Away?

Research Seminar
  • Public event without registration
  • Date: Sep 17, 2025
  • Time: 11:00 AM - 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Mia Fuller
  • Location: Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rome and online
  • Contact: mara.freiberg@biblhertz.it
The seminar will consider enduring colonial traces in the built environment, in the former Italian colonies and the Agro Pontino (which were developed in parallel in the 1930s) through the lens of settler colonialism. [more]

Beyond the Sea: Naples and the Ottoman Empire at the Crossroads of Art and Diplomacy

Research Seminar
  • Public event without registration
  • Date: Jul 1, 2025
  • Time: 11:00 AM - 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Rosita D’Amora
  • Location: Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rome and online
  • Contact: raffaele.rossi@biblhertz.it
Focusing on how an Ottoman diplomatic mission to Naples in 1741 sparked a wave of artistic exchange and diplomacy, this seminar uncovers the rich, overlooked multifaceted ties between two Mediterranean powers, challenging old narratives of cultural distance and political antagonism. [more]

Voci al lavoro: identità femminile e metamorfosi del capitalismo nel cinema contemporaneo

Workshop
  • Evento pubblico senza registrazione
  • Date: Jun 30, 2025
  • Time: 09:30 AM - 05:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Ciclo "Voci al lavoro: identità femminile e metamorfosi del capitalismo nel cinema contemporaneo"
  • Location: Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22 e Palazzo Zuccari, Via Gregoriana 28
  • Contact: rossi@biblhertz.it
L’immagine delle lavoratrici che lasciano la fabbrica Lumière è tra le prime in assoluto ad aver catturato l’attenzione di un pubblico pagante. Questo momento aurorale preannuncia la grande rilevanza del lavoro femminile nella storia del cinema, che rimane tuttavia complessivamente poco discussa nella sua specificità. [more]

Is AI Art Net Art?

  • Public event without registration
  • Date: Jun 26, 2025
  • Time: 11:00 AM - 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Research Seminar
  • Location: Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rome and online
  • Contact: katja.hackstein@biblhertz.it
Gen AI’s images are a distillation of the internet, inheriting the text categories assigned to images alongside the images themselves. How do artists work with, or resist, these competing systems of powers, logics, and communication? [more]

Fritz Berthold Neuhaus: un artista viaggiatore nelle collezioni del Museo delle Civiltà di Roma

Research Seminar
  • Evento pubblico senza registrazione
  • Date: Jun 25, 2025
  • Time: 11:00 AM - 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Giuliana Tomasella
  • Location: Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Roma e online
  • Contact: freiberg@biblhertz.it
Nel seminario verrà presentato il poco noto pittore “coloniale” tedesco, Fritz Berthold Neuhaus, protagonista di varie esposizioni monografiche e collettive italiane degli anni Venti e Trenta, di cui il Museo delle Civiltà di Roma possiede un vasto corpus di dipinti, provenienti dall’ex Museo coloniale. Particolare rilievo sarà dato agli intrecci fra politica e arte e al ruolo rivestito dalla moglie dell’artista, Virginia Neuhaus, autrice di un interessante libro di viaggio, Nella più lontana terra dell’Impero (1937). [more]

Hidden in Plain Sight

Research Seminar
  • Public event without registration
  • Date: Jun 24, 2025
  • Time: 02:00 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Anna-Maria Meister
  • Location: Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rome and online
  • Contact: freiberg@biblhertz.it
How does one see what one is trained to overlook? In three case studies, this seminar will look at archivalia stripped of their data and translated into a charged genre of art history to reveal different forms of information; at an infrastructural building analyzed not through its construction, but its temporal cycles and the duration of its forms; at the intelligence of loss in the archive, embedded in disappearances of matter and the emergences of flora and fauna. [more]

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

Research Seminar
  • Public event without registration
  • Date: Jun 24, 2025
  • Time: 11:00 AM - 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Mei Mei Rado
  • Location: Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rome
  • Contact: freiberg@biblhertz.it
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. [more]

Shoptalks

Workshop
  • Date: Jun 23, 2025
  • Time: 09:15 AM - 05:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Antonia Belli, Lara Demori, Florence Larcher, Thiago Gil de Oliveira Virava, Giulia Morale, Baptiste Tochon-Danguy, Sofia Hernandez, Federico Marcomini
  • Location: Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rome
  • Contact: mara.freiberg@biblhertz.it
In this one-day event, fellows share insights and findings from the research projects they are undertaking at the Bibliotheca Hertizana. [more]

Voci al lavoro III: HER (Spike Jonze, USA 2013)

Ciclo di Film Seminars
  • Evento pubblico senza registrazione
  • Start: Jun 10, 2025
  • End: Jun 11, 2025
  • Speaker: Ciclo "Voci al lavoro: identità femminile e metamorfosi del capitalismo nel cinema contemporaneo"
  • Location: Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22 e Palazzo Zuccari, Via Gregoriana 28
  • Contact: rossi@biblhertz.it
L’immagine delle lavoratrici che lasciano la fabbrica Lumière è tra le prime in assoluto ad aver catturato l’attenzione di un pubblico pagante. Questo momento aurorale preannuncia la grande rilevanza del lavoro femminile nella storia del cinema, che rimane tuttavia complessivamente poco discussa nella sua specificità. [more]

Renaissance Architectural Drawing Beyond Paper

Research Seminar
  • Public event without registration
  • Date: Jun 9, 2025
  • Time: 11:00 AM - 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Morgan Ng
  • Location: Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rome
  • Contact: raffaele.rossi@biblhertz.it
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. [more]

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

Interdisciplinary Conference
  • Public event without registration
  • Start: May 29, 2025
  • End: May 30, 2025
  • Speaker: Interdisciplinary Conference
  • Location: Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, RM 00187 Rome and online (Vimeo)
  • Contact: rossi@biblhertz.it
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. [more]

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

Research Seminar
  • Public event without registration
  • Date: May 27, 2025
  • Time: 11:00 AM - 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Jacqueline Jung
  • Location: Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rome and online
  • Contact: rossi@biblhertz.it
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. [more]

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

Research Seminar
  • Online registration available
  • Date: May 26, 2025
  • Time: 02:00 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Patricio del Real
  • Location: Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rome
  • Contact: mara.freiberg@biblhertz.it
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. [more]

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

  • Öffentliche Veranstaltung ohne Voranmeldung
  • Start: May 19, 2025 02:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • End: May 20, 2025 06:00 PM
  • Speaker: Workshop
  • Location: Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rom
  • Contact: rossi@biblhertz.it
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. [more]

"Militarist Realism": Colonialism, Monuments, Museums, and Knowledge

Research Seminar
  • Public event without registration
  • Date: May 15, 2025
  • Time: 02:00 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Dan Hicks
  • Location: Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rome and online
  • Contact: freiberg@biblhertz.it
The research seminar introduces some of the main themes of Professor Hicks’ new book Every Monument Will Fall: a Story of Remembering and Forgetting (2025); it will explore how it might be possible to begin to join the dots between three anti-colonial movements in institutions of art, culture and education. [more]

Voci al lavoro II: Tutta la vita davanti (Paolo Virzì, Italia 2008)

Ciclo di Film Seminars
  • Evento pubblico senza registrazione
  • Start: May 14, 2025
  • End: May 15, 2025
  • Speaker: Ciclo "Voci al lavoro: identità femminile e metamorfosi del capitalismo nel cinema contemporaneo"
  • Location: Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22 e Palazzo Zuccari, Via Gregoriana 28
  • Contact: rossi@biblhertz.it
L’immagine delle lavoratrici che lasciano la fabbrica Lumière è tra le prime in assoluto ad aver catturato l’attenzione di un pubblico pagante. Questo momento aurorale preannuncia la grande rilevanza del lavoro femminile nella storia del cinema, che rimane tuttavia complessivamente poco discussa nella sua specificità. [more]

Keynote Lecture: "AI and Visual Culture: A Theory of Latent Spaces"

  • Public event without registration
  • Date: May 12, 2025
  • Time: 06:00 PM - 07:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Antonio Somaini
  • Location: Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rome and online
  • Contact: katja.hackstein@biblhertz.it
A theory of images and visual culture, today, needs a theory of latent spaces. In a historical phase in which images are more and more generated, modified, circulated, seen and described by or with the help of different kinds of AI models, we need to understand the crucial role played by an abstract, mathematical construct whose cultural and political implications could hardly be overestimated. [more]

Machine Bildwissenschaft

  • Public event without registration
  • Date: May 12, 2025
  • Time: 11:00 AM - 07:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Conference
  • Location: Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rome
  • Contact: katja.hackstein@biblhertz.it
This full-day conference launches the new Machine Visual Culture research group at the Bibliotheca Hertziana. [more]

Arts and Regimes in Fascist Italy

Research Seminar
  • Public event without registration
  • Date: May 6, 2025
  • Time: 11:00 AM - 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Francesca Billiani
  • Location: Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rome and online
  • Contact: freiberg@biblhertz.it
This talk will address the highly charged relationships between the arts and the Italian Fascist regime. After unpacking the notion of State art, the use of digital humanities tools to offer a comprehensive and systemic view on the arts during the regime will be discussed. [more]

Art History beyond Identity? Reflections on Relationality: The Case of Vicente do Rego Monteiro

Research Seminar
  • Public event without registration
  • Date: Apr 30, 2025
  • Time: 11:00 AM - 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Lena Bader
  • Location: Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rome and online
  • Contact: mara.freiberg@biblhertz.it
In 1925, the Brazilian-born artist Vicente do Rego Monteiro published a remarkable illustrated book of poems about Paris, Quelques visages de Paris (A few faces/views of Paris). The project emerged from the author’s own experience of travelling to the French capital, but in it Rego Monteiro also engaged the topic of translation on a thematic level. [more]

Voci al lavoro I: Deux jours, une nuit (Jean-Pierre e Luc Dardenne, 2014)

Ciclo di Film Seminars
  • Evento pubblico senza registrazione
  • Start: Apr 16, 2025
  • End: Apr 17, 2025
  • Speaker: Ciclo "Voci al lavoro: identità femminile e metamorfosi del capitalismo nel cinema contemporaneo"
  • Location: Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22 e Palazzo Zuccari, Via Gregoriana 28
  • Contact: rossi@biblhertz.it
L’immagine delle lavoratrici che lasciano la fabbrica Lumière è tra le prime in assoluto ad aver catturato l’attenzione di un pubblico pagante. Questo momento aurorale preannuncia la grande rilevanza del lavoro femminile nella storia del cinema, che rimane tuttavia complessivamente poco discussa nella sua specificità. [more]

Riscoprire il patrimonio. Una 'nuova' Cappella Capece Minutolo nel Duomo di Napoli

  • Date: Apr 15, 2025
  • Time: 04:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Location: Napoli, Cappella Real Monte Manso di Scala
Saranno presentati i risultati della ricerca dello storico dell'arte Mariano Saggiomo pubblicati nel Römisches Jahrbuch der Bibliotheca Hertziana, vol. 47. Sarà l'occasione per presentare la riscoperta di una cappella situata al di sotto della più nota cappella della Famiglia Capece Minutolo nel Duomo di Napoli e riflettere sulle condizioni del patrimonio storico-artistico della città. [more]

Consuming Modernism: Erich Mendelsohn, House Beautiful, and the Museum of Modern Art

Henriette Hertz Lecture
  • Public event without registration
  • Date: Apr 14, 2025
  • Time: 06:00 PM - 07:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Henriette Hertz Lecture by Kathleen James-Chakraborty
  • Location: Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rom
  • Contact: paulinyi@biblhertz.it
Histories of modern architecture ignore the degree to which as a fashion it was marketed to women, often by other women. Considering the role of House Beautiful in its reception in the U.S. begins to redress interpretations that also marginalize men, such as Erich Mendelsohn, who designed commercially successful businesses frequented by women. [more]

Porosità della città: Porosità dell’immagine. Walter Benjamin e Napoli (1925-2025)

Workshop
  • Evento pubblico senza registrazione
  • Start: Apr 10, 2025 09:30 AM (Local Time Germany)
  • End: Apr 11, 2025 07:00 PM
  • Speaker: Workshop
  • Location: Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Roma
  • Contact: raffaele.rossi@biblhertz.it
Il 25 agosto 1925 il filosofo Walter Benjamin e la drammaturga Asja Lācis pubblicano sulla Frankfurter Zeitung un saggio su Napoli destinato non soltanto a cambiare la percezione dell’immagine della città, ma a definire una nuova categoria di pensiero. [more]

At the Center of the Periphery: East Berlin and the Face Value of Photo Books

Keynote Lecture as part of the photo-historical seminar “Centers and Peripheries: Photography’s Geography Lessons"
  • Public event without registration
  • Date: Mar 20, 2025
  • Time: 06:30 PM - 08:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Steffen Siegel
  • Location: Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rome and online
  • Contact: sanchez@biblhertz.it
The East German state, the German Democratic Republic, fashioned itself as a “Leseland” or a “land of reading.” A diversified field of publishing houses and an immense book production, sometimes with remarkably high print runs, may justify such an image. Yet, many of these publications did not address the eyes of the reader but the beholder—in the form of photographically illustrated books. Unsurprisingly, Berlin, the capital of the East German state, was among the most prominent subjects. [more]

Guasti: Preventive Destruction During the Italian Wars (Panel Session at the Renaissance Society of America Annual Conference)

Conference
  • Venue: Boston, USA
  • Date: Mar 20, 2025
  • Time: 02:30 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Alberto Pérez Negrete, Anna Rebecca Sartore, Antonino Tranchina
  • Location: Salon K - 4th Floor, Boston Marriott Copley Place, 110 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA 02116, United States
  • Contact: Editorial-LMG@biblhertz.it
Join us for a panel session on preventive destruction as a military strategy and its consequences on the architectural, artistic, and religious landscape of Early Modern Italian cities. [more]

The Rough, the Smooth, and the White in ca. 1600 Hizen: The Rhetoric of Porcelain

Research Seminar
  • Public event without registration
  • Date: Mar 19, 2025
  • Time: 11:00 AM - 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Edward S. Cooke, Jr
  • Location: Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rome and online
  • Contact: mara.freiberg@biblhertz.it
The Portuguese, like many Europeans at this time, brought with them to Hizen province (modern Saga and Nagasaki prefectures), in northwestern Kyushu, a certain ceramic theory of classification and taste that did not allow them to understand Japanese preferences on the local terms. Nor did these nanbanjin (Southern barbarians) comprehend the preference for a seemingly random assemblage of a wide variety of local and imported ceramic works. [more]

Navigating the Victorian Photograph Album: Itineraries, Histories, Erasures

Keynote Lecture as part of the photo-historical seminar “Centers and Peripheries: Photography’s Geography Lessons"
  • Public event without registration
  • Date: Mar 18, 2025
  • Time: 06:30 PM - 08:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Luke Gartlan
  • Location: Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rome and online
  • Contact: sanchez@biblhertz.it
Photograph albums of Victorian Britain have often been interpreted in terms of the social and familial networks of their compilers, but they also imply certain geographies – local and transnational, imagined and travelled – that are not always brought to the same level of critical attention. This lecture examines an impressive album compiled by Cecilia Mary Jocelyn, née Elliot, which is currently on permanent display at the National Portrait Gallery in London. [more]

From Storms to Stars: Materiality and Visualizations of the Sky

Research Seminar
  • Public event without registration
  • Date: Mar 11, 2025
  • Time: 02:00 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Omar W. Nasim and Nicholas Robbins
  • Location: Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rome and online
  • Contact: katja.hackstein@biblhertz.it
How do we capture the ever-changing nature of the sky? This research seminar examines the different strategies artists and scientists have used to visualize the terrestrial and celestial sky. [more]

Mettere mano: Reworking Early Modern Drawings

Gernsheim Study Days
  • Public event without registration
  • Start: Mar 4, 2025
  • End: Mar 7, 2025
  • Speaker: Gernsheim Study Days
  • Location: Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rome and online (Vimeo)
  • Contact: Editorial-LMG@biblhertz.it
“… con questo, che Taddeo potesse correggere e mettere mano nei disegni e cartoni di Federigo a suo piacimento …” In the Vita of Taddeo Zuccari, Giorgio Vasari describes the reworking of drawings — in contrast to that of paintings — as a common and spontaneous practice. The 2025 Gernsheim Study Days are dedicated to all aspects of reworking, retouching, and repairing early modern European drawings, engaging with both artistic and material issues. [more]

Research Exhibition: Rework, Retouch, Care: Case Studies from the Hertziana Collection

Research Exhibition curated by Francesca Borgo and Camilla Colzani
  • Opening: March 4, 2025 at 18:45
  • Start: Mar 4, 2025
  • End: Mar 5, 2025
  • Speaker: Research Exhibition curated by Francesca Borgo and Camilla Colzani
  • Location: Palazzo Zuccari (Foyer, Sala Terrena), Via Gregoriana 30, 00187 Roma
  • Contact: editorial-LMG@biblhertz.it
Long after leaving the artist’s studio, drawings continue to transform. More fragile and responsive than canvas or panel, paper not only registers the passage of time but also readily reflects shifts in ownership, taste, and interest. This exhibition presents a selection of case studies from the Hertziana collection that draws attention to the open temporality of these works. [more]

Decentering Transnationality. The Impact of Latin American Artists in Post-War Europe

Workshop
  • Public event without registration
  • Start: Mar 3, 2025 12:00 AM (Local Time Germany)
  • End: Mar 4, 2025 12:00 AM
  • Speaker: Workshop
  • Location: Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rome and online (Zoom: https://eu02web.zoom-x.de/j/7475586652?omn=67148978566)
  • Contact: mara.freiberg@biblhertz.it
From the early decades of the twentieth century, Europe – followed by North America after 1945 – became the nexus of migratory flows of artists, objects, ideas, and cultural agents, particularly from Latin America. Yet, while the presence of Latin American artists in the United Kingdom and France has been the subject of extensive and ongoing research projects, the same is not true for other European countries eschewing the powerful axis of Paris - London - New York. The 2-day workshop welcomes research contributions that decenter such canonization of the transnational to recover histories that involve other places of arrival and a new polycentric understanding. What was the impact of artists settling at the so-called margins of Europe? How did they contribute to an ongoing international dialogue crossing the European continent and a process of hybridization of local narratives? [more]

Reworking Renaissance Surfaces: Art History and Conservation in Dialogue

Research Seminar
  • Date: Feb 11, 2025
  • Time: 11:00 AM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Zuzanna Sarnecka, Valentina Mazzotti, David Ekserdjian, Steffi Bodechtel, Helen Buddensieg
  • Location: Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Roma
  • Contact: lea.greenberg@biblhertz.it
The two sessions focus on the surfaces of Renaissance objects (tin-glazed earthenware from Italian workshops and a panel painting by Correggio) to examine how their reworking reveals shifts in artistic practices, evolving tastes, and preservation methods. [more]

The Fabrication of Borders: A New History of Fashion, 1347-1947

Research Seminar
  • Public event without registration
  • Date: Feb 10, 2025
  • Time: 11:00 AM - 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Emanuele Lugli
  • Location: Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, RM 00187 Rome and online (Vimeo)
  • Contact: raffaele.rossi@biblhertz.it
The history of fashion is often framed as a sequence of styles, each born from individual creativity. Fashion, in this view, is a product of choice and psychology—perhaps shaped by class dynamics—but ultimately driven by a will powerful enough to influence a community and, at times, expand to shape entire nations and beyond. But what if we flipped this perspective? [more]

Pentimenti, ripassi, ritocchi: esempi per una casistica

Research Seminar
  • Date: Feb 6, 2025
  • Time: 04:00 PM - 06:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Marzia Faietti e Piera Giovanna Tordella
  • Location: Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Roma
  • Contact: lea.greenberg@biblhertz.it
Pentimenti, ripassi, ritocchi caratterizzano tre versanti teoricamente e concettualmente diversificati dell’atto grafico autografo. [more]

Transnational Circulation of Devotional Objects through Religious Orders: between the Iberian World and Rome

Workshop
  • Public event without registration
  • Start: Feb 4, 2025 09:00 AM (Local Time Germany)
  • End: Feb 5, 2025 06:30 PM
  • Speaker: Workshop
  • Location: Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rome and online
  • Contact: mara.freiberg@biblhertz.it
This workshop is organized by the ProJestArt Research Group, Agents: Jesuit Procurators and Alternative Channels for Artistic Circulation in the Hispanic World (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid), in collaboration with Prof. Tristan Weddigen (Bibliotheca Hertziana-Max Planck Institute for Art History, Rome). [more]

Sommerresidenzen und herrscherliche Refugien um den Monte Vulture

Research Seminar
  • Öffentliche Veranstaltung ohne Anmeldung
  • Date: Jan 23, 2025
  • Time: 11:00 AM - 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Kai Kappel & Klaus Tragbar
  • Location: Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rom und online
  • Contact: raffaele.rossi@biblhertz.it
Die in Süditalien gelegenen, spätstaufisch-frühangevinischen Anlagen von Lagopesole, Palazzo San Gervasio und Gravina in Puglia werden im Rahmen eines aktuellen Forschungsprojekts erstmals architektur- und funktionsgeschichtlich näher untersucht. [more]

Il possibile: Istruzioni per l'uso. Studi sull'opera di Gianfranco Baruchello

Conferenza
  • Registrazione obbligatoria
  • Start: Jan 23, 2025 10:00 AM (Local Time Germany)
  • End: Jan 24, 2025 06:00 PM
  • Speaker: Conferenza
  • Location: ACCADEMIA NAZIONALE DEI LINCEI, Palazzo Corsini, Via della Lungara 10, 00165 Roma (RM)
  • Contact: mara.freiberg@biblhertz.it
Il Convegno “Il Possibile: Istruzioni per l’uso. Studi sull’opera di Gianfranco Baruchello” intende ripercorrere l’opera del celebre artista Gianfranco Baruchello (Livorno, 1924 – Roma, 2023) nel contesto storico-artistico italiano e internazionale dal secondo dopoguerra fino ai lavori più recenti. [more]

Literary and Cultural Circulation Between Italy and Brazil

Workshop
  • Public event without registration
  • Date: Dec 13, 2024
  • Time: 09:00 AM - 06:10 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Workshop
  • Location: Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rome and online
  • Contact: mara.freiberg@biblhertz.it
As part of the 2024 celebrations marking the 150th anniversary of Italian emigration to Brazil, this workshop will explore the artistic and cultural ties between the two nations from the turn of the 20th century to the present. [more]

Memories of Rome - Drawings as Souvenirs from around 1800

Research Exhibition curated by Johannes Röll
  • Opening on December 12, 2024 at 18:00
  • Date: Dec 12, 2024
  • Speaker: Research Exhibition curated by Johannes Röll
  • Location: Palazzo Zuccari (Foyer, Sala Terrena), Via Gregoriana 30, 00187 Roma
  • Contact: sanchez@biblhertz.it
Ninety-seven drawings from the late 18th century were acquired by the Bibliotheca Hertziana over a hundred years ago, most likely as originals by the well-known artist Felice Giani. Most of them are faithful but sketchy copies of drawings by the Slovene Franz Caucig, who lived in Rome from 1780 to 1787. They were probably made for an English Grand Tourist and sold as souvenirs. [more]

New Fellows’ Presentations

  • Public event without registration
  • Date: Dec 9, 2024
  • Time: 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: New Researchers at the Bibliotheca Hertziana
  • Location: Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rome
  • Contact: direktionsassistenz@biblhertz.it
Founded in 1913, the Bibliotheca Hertziana-Max Planck Institute for Art History comprises of the departments “Cities and Spaces in Premodernity” led by Prof. Dr. Tanja Michalsky and “Art of the Modern Age in a Global Context” led by Prof. Dr. Tristan Weddigen, alongside Drs. Sietske Fransen and Francesca Borgo’s research groups “Visualizing Science in Media Revolutions” and “Decay, Loss, and Conservation in Art History”, respectively. Each department and research group hosts an international group of pre- and postdoctoral fellows undertaking research that spans a vast array of methodologies, chronologies, and geographies to tackle issues at the cutting edge of the field. [more]

Buchpräsentation: Blick Richtung Europa? Dreißig 'außereuropäische' Objekte geben Antwort

Buchpräsentation
  • Veranstaltungsort: Salzburg
  • Date: Nov 28, 2024
  • Time: 07:15 PM - 07:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Matthias Weiß, Henry Kaap, Jeehye Kim, David Hobelleitner, Eva Wiegert
  • Location: Erzabt Klotz Straße 1, Erdgeschoß, PLZ/Ort 5020 Salzburg , Österreich
Am Donnerstag, den 28. November 2024, lädt die Abteilung Kunstgeschichte der Universität Salzburg zur Vorstellung zweier Buchpublikationen ein. Die Veranstaltung beginnt um 19:15 Uhr im Hörsaal 4 (Anna-Bahr-Mildenburg) im Unipark Nonntal – hierzu laden wir sehr herzlich ein. [more]

Reliquie murate – allestimenti, segni e memoria / Immured Relics – Display, Signs and Memory

Conference
  • Public event without registration
  • Start: Nov 27, 2024
  • End: Nov 29, 2024
  • Speaker: Conference
  • Location: Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rome
  • Contact: rossi@biblhertz.it
This workshop is to explore the relation between relics and architecture. First and foremost, cases of relics physically built into the architectural fabric of churches and chapels will be addressed, such as columns whose capitals have been equipped with relics, triumphal arches or the apse’s semi-dome with relic depositories, “secret chambers” or even foundations and walls fortified by holy material. [more]

Sensorial Encounters: Haptic and Non-Visual Access in Art

Workshop
  • Public event without registration
  • Start: Nov 25, 2024
  • End: Nov 26, 2024
  • Speakers: Workshop
  • Location: Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rome and online
  • Contact: freiberg@biblhertz.it
Sensorial Encounters: Haptic and Non-Visual Access in Art is an exploratory workshop that challenges the primacy of visual perception and terminology in art and art history. Inspired by the methodological insights of authors such as Georgina Kleege, Elizabeth Bearden and Amanda Cachia, among others, this workshop que stions the traditional conflation of sight with knowledge. [more]

Conferenza dell'Unione Internazionale: Ifigenia a Pompei. Nuovi affreschi dalla Casa dei Pittori al lavoro

Conferenza
  • Registrazione obbligatoria
  • Date: Nov 20, 2024
  • Time: 06:00 PM - 08:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Francesca Ghedini
  • Location: Istituto Svizzero, Via Liguria 20, 00187 Roma
  • Host: Istituto Svizzero
L’Istituto Svizzero ha il piacere di ospitare la conferenza annuale dell’Unione Internazionale degli Istituti di Archeologia, Storia e Storia dell’Arte a Roma. Il tema di quest’anno, Ifigenia a Pompei, con la partecipazione della professoressa Francesca Ghedini, è proposto dall’Institutum Romanum Finlandiae.L’Unione Internazionale, raccoglie trentotto istituti di ricerca, italiani e non italiani, appartenenti a diciannove nazioni diverse, europee ed extra-europee, tutti operanti negli ambiti disciplinari indicati. [more]

After the Middle Ages (Reception, Remnants, Revival): Architecture and Medievalism

Conference
  • Public event without registration
  • Start: Nov 18, 2024
  • End: Nov 19, 2024
  • Speaker: Conference
  • Location: Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rome
  • Contact: raffaele.rossi@biblhertz.it
“After the Middle Ages” implies both a temporal horizon, extending from the early modern period to the present day and beyond, and responses to the Middle Ages (medievalism). The conference aims to navigate the historical interactions between these responses and architecture, fostering critical discussions surrounding an “architectural history of medievalism”. [more]

Form, Style, Principles: Art Historical and Theoretical Reflections – A Conference of the Wölfflin Edition

Conference
  • Event location: Zurich (CH) and online
  • Start: Nov 18, 2024
  • End: Nov 20, 2024
  • Speaker: Conference
  • Location: Online / University of Zurich; Aula + Lichthof
  • Contact: freiberg@biblhertz.it
Recent discussions in aesthetics and art history, literature, and visual studies have seen a renewed interest in questions of form and formalism. Whether in connection with algorithmic thinking, computer vision, and artificial intelligence, or with transcultural comparisons, revised narratives of modernism, re-conceptualisations of formlessness, and cognitive reflections on connoisseurship, form and formalism have regained currency in current discourses on a transhistorical and transdisciplinary level. It has become clear that an “archaeology of knowledge” about these crucial notions is indispensable in teasing out their critical potential and in productive application of what has also been termed “new formalism” or “post-formalism”. [more]

Varieties of Modification of the Print

Keynote lecture - part of: The Paper Project Workshop "Touched/Retouched: Paper across Time (1400–1800)"
  • Date: Nov 15, 2024
  • Time: 05:00 PM - 06:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Antony Griffiths
  • Location: Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rome
Whereas drawings only begin to change after they have been drawn, prints can change before, during, and after printing. [more]

Shoptalks

Workshop
  • Date: Nov 12, 2024
  • Time: 09:30 AM - 03:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Alessio Ciannarella, Caterina Martinelli, Damiana Di Bonito, Agnieszka Dziki, Mariano Saggiomo, José Alegria, Lara Demori
  • Location: Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rome
  • Contact: mara.freiberg@biblhertz.it
In this one-day event, fellows share insights and findings from the research projects they are undertaking at the Bibliotheca Hertizana. [more]

Archaeology in the Drawings of Leonardo, Michelangelo, and Raphael

Keynote lecture - part of: The Paper Project Workshop "Touched/Retouched: Paper across Time (1400–1800)"
  • Public event without registration
  • Date: Nov 11, 2024
  • Time: 05:00 PM - 06:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Carmen C. Bambach
  • Location: Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rome
  • Contact: lea.greenberg@biblhertz.it
Carmen C. Bambach, curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, will give the opening keynote lecture for “Touched/Retouched: Paper across Time (1400–1800),” a workshop made possible with support from Getty through The Paper Project initiative. [more]

The Instruction of Drawing: Artistic Creative Formation in the Amazon (Late 18th Century)

Research Seminar
  • Public event without registration
  • Date: Nov 7, 2024
  • Time: 02:00 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Verónica Muñoz-Najar Luque
  • Location: Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rome
  • Contact: freiberg@biblhertz.it
In the late 18th century, in the Amazonian drawing schools, as in Europe, copying and imitating academic prints was not only a means of disseminating thought and artistic knowledge but also an explicit principle of creative formation, helping artists develop their own unique style. [more]

Female Figures on the Moon: Intertwining Science, Philosophy and Literature

Research Seminar
  • Public event without registration
  • Date: Nov 7, 2024
  • Time: 11:00 AM - 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Natacha Fabbri
  • Location: Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rome and online
  • Contact: katja.hackstein@biblhertz.it
In this lecture, Natacha Fabbri will introduce her recent work on the multifaceted relationship between women and the Moon in Western culture from the 16th to the 19th century. The talk will discuss the pioneering women who studied, described, and depicted the Earth’s satellites, as well as the role that the new image of the Moon played in the debate on the querelle des femmes, serving as a tool to challenge prejudicial readings. [more]

Plant Plant tra eredità del ventennio e pratiche artistiche in Alto Adige/ Südtirol

Film Seminar
  • Date: Oct 29, 2024
  • Time: 04:30 PM - 06:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Film Screening e Seminar con Andrea di Michele, Emanuele Guidi e Kathrin Hornek
  • Location: Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rome and online
  • Contact: mara.freiberg@biblhertz.it
Mettendo in dialogo storia, pratiche curatoriali e pratiche artistiche, il seminario interroga le potenzialità e i limiti delle arti visive nell’indagare, narrare, visualizzare e risignificare la difficile eredità del fascismo in Alto Adige, a partire dal film Plant Plant (2021) dell’artista Katrin Hornek. Intervengono Andrea Di Michele, Emanuele Guidi e Katrin Hornek. [more]

AI & Cities 2024. Digital Double: Situating and Troubling AI Technologies for Architectural Reconstruction and Urban Simulation

Workshop
  • Program partially open to public
  • Start: Oct 24, 2024 02:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • End: Oct 25, 2024 05:15 PM
  • Speaker: Workshop
  • Location: Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rome
  • Contact: mara.freiberg@biblhertz.it
A double, in the figurative sense, refers to a situation or concept that has two possible interpretations. What happens when we transpose this notion of the double into the digital realm, precisely in the context of a digital transition that affects the way we build, govern, and imagine cities? [more]

Memory Traces: The Intellectual Work of the Line in Leonardo da Vinci’s Drawing Practice

Research Seminar
  • Public event without registration
  • Date: Oct 23, 2024
  • Time: 05:00 PM - 07:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speakers: Nicola Suthor and Lorenza Melli
  • Location: Villino Stroganoff
  • Contact: lea.greenberg@biblhertz.it
In this conversation, two experts from the field of Renaissance art history examine drawings by Leonardo da Vinci and uncover a particular workshop practice of the artist. [more]

Stone into Stone

Research Seminar
  • Public event without registration
  • Date: Oct 22, 2024
  • Time: 11:00 AM - 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Carolina Mangone
  • Location: Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rome
What does it mean for an artist to transform stone into stone? How do we understand mimesis that eliminates the difference between material and its representation? This lecture examines these questions through the lens of Gianlorenzo Bernini’s Four Rivers Fountain (1648-51), focusing on its rocky grotto base hewn from craggy, porous travertine so as to look like the stone itself in its natural state. [more]

An English Alabaster in Aragonese Naples

Research Seminar
  • Public event without registration
  • Date: Oct 17, 2024
  • Time: 11:00 AM - 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Sarah K. Kozlowski
  • Location: Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, RM 00187 Rome and online (Vimeo)
  • Contact: rossi@biblhertz.it
In the 15th century, a monumental English alabaster altarpiece of the Passion traveled to Naples, though it was only documented 200 years later. Asking how, where, and why this artwork would have been received in Aragonese Naples, this project explores courtly collecting practices and the tactility of alabaster. [more]

Digital Research Infrastructures for Art History

Workshop
  • Public event without registration
  • Date: Oct 16, 2024
  • Time: 05:00 PM - 08:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Workshop
  • Location: Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rome and online
  • Contact: freiberg@biblhertz.it
Presentation of recent Initiatives at the Bibliotheca Hertziana and the Institut National d’Histoire de l’Art, Paris (INHA) with a Lecture of Federico Nurra, Head of the Digital Research Service at INHA. [more]

Scaling Conques – The Frames of Reference in Understanding an 'Abbey in a Shell'

International Conference
  • Public event without registration
  • Start: Oct 10, 2024
  • End: Oct 11, 2024
  • Speaker: International Conference
  • Location: Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rome and online
  • Contact: raffaele.rossi@biblhertz.it
This conclusive conference of the project “Conques in the Global World” aims at reviewing the question implicit in the projects main title: How is the knowledge we generate about Conques conditioned by the frames of references we apply and what is the right scale of observation to answer our research questions? How does the choice of scale predetermine the results? [more]

Spatial Communities, Cultural Landscape, and Heritage Agnosticism – Reading Day

Workshop
  • Registration is mandatory
  • Date: Oct 8, 2024
  • Time: 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Workshop with Christoph Brumann
  • Location: Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rome
  • Contact: lea.greenberg@biblhertz.it
Combining the reading group “Spatial Communities: New Methodologies for Heritage Landscapes” with special guest Christoph Brumann’s work on heritage agnosticism, this one-morning reading workshop aims to connect individual research projects with the most pressing questions in heritage studies today. [more]

Contested Euro-Visions: Universal Value and Global Inequality in the UNESCO World Heritage Arena

Lecture
  • Public event without registration
  • Date: Oct 7, 2024
  • Time: 06:00 PM - 08:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Christoph Brumann
  • Location: Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rome and online
  • Contact: lea.greenberg@biblhertz.it
The UNESCO World Heritage List is a coveted mark of cultural distinction for sites of Outstanding Universal Value (OUV). In this talk, Christoph Brumann explains why, despite decades of reform, there is still a North-South imbalance of OUV sites. [more]

The Fabrication of the King: Charles Le Brun Reflecting on the Textile Medium

Semester Opening Lecture
  • Public event without registration
  • Date: Oct 2, 2024
  • Time: 06:30 PM - 08:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Tristan Weddigen
  • Location: Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rome and online
  • Contact: freiberg@biblhertz.it
Until recently the textile medium lacked a theory, which undermined its status as fine art in the academic discourse. However, being silent does not mean that it does not think. In early modern art, tapestry can reveal an aesthetic self-awareness of the textile medium which awaits to be fully explored and unfolded through the close reading and contextualization of works as singular phenomena with a potential of generalization. [more]

Quo vadis Provenance Research? Primary Sources and Archival Collections in Post-Unitarian Italy

Workshop
  • Public event without registration
  • Start: Sep 26, 2024
  • End: Sep 27, 2024
  • Speaker: Workshop
  • Location: Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rome and online
  • Contact: sanchez@biblhertz.it
The Photographic Collection of the Bibliotheca Hertziana in Rome will host the second annual meeting of the Working group Italy of the Arbeitskreis Provenienzforschung e.V. The workshop will focus on primary sources and archival collections in post-unitarian Italy, which serve as a fundamental tool for provenance research. [more]

Identità plurali e alterità spaziali dell’italianità 1796-1943: territori, città, architetture, musei

Conferenza
  • L'evento avrá luogo in sedi diverse
  • Start: Sep 26, 2024
  • End: Sep 28, 2024
  • Speaker: Convegno Internazionale di Studio
  • Location: Archivio Storico del Quirinale, via del Quirinale 30, 00187 Roma - École française de Rome, Piazza Navona 62, 00186 Roma
Il Convegno Internazionale di Studi si svolge nell’ambito del Progetto di ricerca Spazidentità. Spazialità materiale e immateriale dell’italianità dalla Repubblica Cisalpina al Fascismo : territori, città, architetture, musei. Programmes structurants, École française de Rome, 2022-2026. Axe Thématique : Création, patrimoine, mémoire [more]

The Artificial Eye. Art Theory and Optical Revolution in Early Modern Europe.

Research Seminar
  • Public event without registration
  • Date: Sep 10, 2024
  • Time: 11:00 AM - 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Valérie Kobi
  • Location: Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rome
  • Contact: katja.hackstein@biblhertz.it
While it is well known that the optical revolution completely changed our perception of the world, thanks in particular to the invention of the telescope and the microscope, its importance for the development of art history remains largely underestimated. However, the sources at our disposal clearly reveal that art connoisseurs and theorists of the 17th and 18th centuries were quick to exploit advances in optics to improve their own protocols for reading art objects. [more]

Disintegration and Formation of Medieval Compounds with Towers in Trogir

Lecture
  • Public event without registration
  • Date: Jul 10, 2024
  • Time: 06:00 PM - 08:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Ana Plosnić Škarić
  • Location: Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rome and online
  • Contact: rossi@biblhertz.it
The lecture is focused on studying changes in the Medieval urban fabric, interpreting fragments and their interrelationships, and prompting discussion on the limits of well-argued results and their textual and visual representations. [more]

Picturing Sainthood: Images and the Making of Saints in Early Modern Global Catholicism

Conference
  • Public event without registration
  • Start: Jun 19, 2024 03:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • End: Jun 21, 2024 05:30 PM
  • Speakers: Conference
  • Location: Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rome and online (only keynote lectures)
  • Contact: mara.freiberg@biblhertz.it
In the early modern period, throughout the process of negotiation that gave shape to sainthood – whether officially recognized or aspirational – images were of paramount importance. Encompassing a wide range of media, from inexpensive medals and woodcuts to costly altarpieces, images were as crucial at the grassroots level of popular devotion as in the context of elite patronage. The conference Picturing Sainthood: Images and the Making of Saints in Early Modern Global Catholicism investigates the role of images in generating, defining, and recognizing sainthood across cultures in the wake of Catholicism’s global expansion during the period of Iberian hegemony (c. 1500–1700). [more]

Cultura materiale e immaginario del “Safari” nella “Mostra dell'Attrezzatura Coloniale” (1940)

Research Seminar
  • Public event without registration
  • Date: Jun 18, 2024
  • Time: 11:00 AM - 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Laura Moure Cecchini
  • Location: Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rome and online
  • Contact: freiberg@biblhertz.it
Questo seminario analizzerà la "Mostra dell'Attrezzatura Coloniale”, utilizzando i material culture studies e la storia delle esposizioni per indagare il ruolo della cultura materiale nella costruzione dell'immaginario coloniale, in particolare quello che presentava l'invasione dell'Etiopia come un “safari”. [more]

New Fellows’ Presentation

  • Public event without registration
  • Date: Jun 17, 2024
  • Time: 09:30 AM - 11:00 AM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: New Researchers at the Bibliotheca Hertziana
  • Location: Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, RM 00187 Rome and online (Vimeo)
  • Contact: direktionsassistenz@biblhertz.it
The Bibliotheca Hertziana - Max Planck Institute for Art History comprises two departments and two research groups with a great variety of methodological, historical, and geographical perspectives and themes, ranging from “Cities and Spaces in Premodernity” to “Art of the Modern Age in a Global Context”, and from “Visualizing Science in Media Revolutions” to “Decay, Loss, and Conservation in Art History”. The Institute hosts fellows from diverse regions and backgrounds both at a pre-doc and a post-doc level. [more]

Towards a Novel Collaborative Cultural Analysis of the City of Rome II

Workshop
  • Start: Jun 11, 2024
  • End: Jun 13, 2024
  • Speaker: Workshop
  • Location: Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rome
  • Contact: freiberg@biblhertz.it
The purpose of our 2nd workshop is to focus on co-creation towards a joint product via productive discussions and/or ad-hoc working groups. Possible products include a joint cartography that captures the coverage of available information from antiquity to the present, and a roadmap for the research community. While we provide a foundation, participants are encouraged to bring their own ideas and data! [more]

New Perspectives on Mersenne in the History of Knowledge, Music, and Religion

  • Public event without registration
  • Start: Jun 6, 2024 09:30 AM (Local Time Germany)
  • End: Jun 7, 2024 03:30 PM
  • Speaker: Conference
  • Location: Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rome
  • Contact: katja.hackstein@biblhertz.it
In the historiography of the philosopher, mathematician, and Minim theologian Marin Mersenne (1588–1648), 2024 marks 91 years since the publication of the first volume of his Correspondance, 81 years since Robert Lenoble’s trailblazing biography, and 36 years since Peter Dear’s revisionist study of Mersenne and the Jesuit milieu that produced his “deliberately unrevolutionary” scholarship in a rather revolutionary period. [more]

Fabricating the City: Canaletto and 18th Century-Venice

Research Seminar
  • Public event without registration
  • Date: Jun 4, 2024
  • Time: 11:00 AM - 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Basile Baudez
  • Location: Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rome and online
  • Contact: mara.freiberg@biblhertz.it
Textiles are everywhere in the modern city. Flags flutter atop buildings. Awnings stretch over sidewalks. Laundry dangles between houses. Yet the crucial role these fabrics play in urban life has not been properly understood. This research seminar looks to eighteenth-century Venice to uncover the ways in which textiles shaped politics, society, and law in the early-modern metropolis. [more]

The Web of Images

Research Seminar
  • Public event without registration
  • Date: Jun 3, 2024
  • Time: 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speakers: Piotr Ł. Grotowski, Olena Derevska
  • Location: Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rome and online
  • Contact: mara.freiberg@biblhertz.it
Covering visual arts and intellectual history, Piotr Ł. Grotowski, an eminent art historian of Byzantium, Central and Eastern Europe, and Olena Derevska, a scholar who specializes in interdisciplinary links, will address the invention of early modern European culture in Ukraine. [more]

Humanist Cultures in Colonial Latin America

Research Seminar
  • Public event without registration
  • Date: May 28, 2024
  • Time: 02:00 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Patricia Zalamea
  • Location: Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rome and online
  • Contact: mara.freiberg@biblhertz.it
What did it mean to be a humanist in sixteenth. century Tunja? Set in the Colombian Andes, Tunja was construed as a major artistic center of the colonial territory of New Kingdom of Granada by its first-generation of Spanish settlers, which included writers, captains, and clerics. In addition to building new homes and churches, these inhabitants of Tunja established a local intellectual network based on rivalry, innovation, and genealogy. [more]

Window-Shopping with the Avant-Garde: Commercial Display and Modern Design in Interwar Romania

Research Seminar
  • Public event without registration
  • Date: May 28, 2024
  • Time: 11:00 AM - 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Alexandra Chiriac
  • Location: Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rome and online
  • Contact: mara.freiberg@biblhertz.it
The relationship between avant-garde artists and consumer culture has often been framed as antagonistic. Nonetheless, in the period between the First and Second World Wars, commercial display became a significant means through which modern design was introduced to the general public. Recent studies have demonstrated how commercial display practices have “contributed to the formulation of new forms of aesthetic experience, as well as art and design typologies” (Lasc et al. 2017: 5). Taking as a case study the Romanian avant-garde movement, this talk examines how the visual realm of retail practices intersected with new trends in art and design, in particular the introduction of modern design for the domestic interior in Bucharest. [more]

Bernini, Materials, and Race

Research Seminar
  • Public event without registration
  • Date: May 27, 2024
  • Time: 02:00 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Evonne Levy
  • Location: Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rome and online
  • Contact: mara.freiberg@biblhertz.it
That bronze and other black stony materials could be – but were not always – signifiers of the black body haunts the art of bronze casting through Cordier and Carpeaux and even to the work of Kehinde Wiley today. This talk looks at the traces of the beginnings of these same debates in the milieu of Gianlorenzo Bernini. [more]

Visualizing Science in Media Revolutions

  • Public event without registration
  • Start: May 22, 2024 09:00 AM (Local Time Germany)
  • End: May 24, 2024 06:00 PM
  • Speaker: Conference
  • Location: Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rome and online (Vimeo)
  • Contact: katja.hackstein@biblhertz.it
This conference brings together almost five years of research from the Max Planck Research Group “Visualizing Science in Media Revolutions.” The Research Group has compared different scientific disciplines of the late medieval and early modern periods, from anatomy to the study of magnetism. [more]

Synthetic Realities, Real Violence: AI and Imaging Tech in Contemporary Conflicts

Research Seminar
  • Public event without registration
  • Date: May 21, 2024
  • Time: 11:00 AM - 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speakers: Donatella Della Ratta, Lesia Vasylchenko
  • Location: Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rome and online (Vimeo)
  • Contact: mara.freiberg@biblhertz.it
Discussing the convergence of artificial intelligence, imaging technologies, and modern conflict, Donatella Della Ratta and Lesia Vasylchenko will explore how AI-driven forms of representation reshape reality and generate new forms of violence. [more]

Geografie, spazi e luoghi della mascolinità e dell'omosessualità nell’Italia fascista

Research Seminar
  • Date: May 20, 2024
  • Time: 11:00 AM - 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Lorenzo Benadusi
  • Location: Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Roma e online
  • Contact: freiberg@biblhertz.it
Questo Research Seminar si focalizzerà su spazi, luoghi e architetture della mascolinità dell’Italia fascista, utilizzando la storia di genere e della sessualità come utile strumento di indagine dei contesti urbani ed extraurbani del periodo. Un focus su tre città in particolare, Roma, Venezia e Catania, permetterà inoltre di articolare questi temi al dialogo tra Nord e Sud, e alle costruzioni di genere associate ai rispettivi immaginari geografici. [more]

Research Seminar Series "Methodology and Ideology: Critical Perspectives on the Historical Paradigms of Art History" (8th Research Seminar): Jerusalem in Rome, Constantinople, and Venice: Four Cities and the Idea of a ‘Holy of Holies’

Research Seminar
  • Date: May 14, 2024
  • Time: 11:00 AM - 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Holger A. Klein
  • Location: Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rome and online
  • Host: freiberg@biblhertz.it
  • Contact: freiberg@biblhertz.it
This seminar is devoted to an exploration of three cities that claimed the title of being a New Jerusalem. More specifically, we will explore aspects of the rise and development of the Christian veneration of saints and relics as a decidedly urban phenomenon in the cities of Constantinople, Rome, and Venice from the late antique to the early modern period. [more]

Sogno e realtà: Italian Orientalist Painting

Research Seminar
  • Public event without registration
  • Date: May 13, 2024
  • Time: 11:00 AM - 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Peter Benson Miller
  • Location: Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rome and online
  • Contact: freiberg@biblhertz.it
The distinction between truth and fantasy has long structured studies of Orientalist painting in the Italian sphere. This lecture explores critical and historiographical blind spots regarding this problematic genre from the nineteenth century to the postcolonial era. [more]

Art in Times of War and Peace: Legacies of Early Modern Loot and Repair

Conference
  • Event open to the public without registration
  • Start: May 8, 2024 09:00 AM (Local Time Germany)
  • End: May 10, 2024 06:00 PM
  • Speaker: Conference
  • Location: Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rome
  • Contact: Editorial-LMG@biblhertz.it
Art in Times of War and Peace is an international, interdisciplinary conference that addresses the ways in which conflict and its resolution have historically moved, modified, and reclassified art objects in the long early modern period. [more]

“Présences Arabes”. Mapping out Paris as an Arab capital 1908-1988

Research Seminar
  • Public event without registration
  • Date: May 7, 2024
  • Time: 02:00 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Morad Montazami
  • Location: Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rome and online
  • Contact: freiberg@biblhertz.it
Morad Montazami will present and discuss the exhibition he curated, Arab Presences. Modern Art and Decolonization. Paris 1908-1988 (Musée d’art moderne de Paris), as the first attempt to gather a short 20th century global picture and micro-history of Arab artistic trajectories in Paris. [more]

La svolta mediale. Dai mezzi di comunicazione ai processi di mediazione

Research Seminar
  • Evento pubblico senza registrazione
  • Date: May 7, 2024
  • Time: 11:00 AM - 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Francesco Casetti
  • Location: Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Roma
  • Contact: raffaele.rossi@biblhertz.it
Negli ultimi decenni siamo passati dal pensare ai media come mezzi di comunicazione al considerarli come ambienti, poi come infrastrutture, e infine come dispositivi per mediare con il mondo. Ma cosa significa mediare con il mondo? Cercare di appropriarsene o cercare di difendersi da esso? [more]

Champollion before the College de France: a Micro-Historic Inquiry

Research Seminar
  • Public event without registration
  • Date: May 2, 2024
  • Time: 11:00 AM - 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Markus Messling
  • Location: Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rome and online
  • Contact: raffaele.rossi@biblhertz.it
The statue of Jean-François Champollion, the decipherer of the Egyptian hieroglyphs, was designed by Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi for the 1867 Universal Exhibition in Paris. The Third Republic installed it in the Collège de France. As an expression of the imperial consciousness of world and knowledge, the statue is undermined by its own pictorial programme and refers to problems of French universalism that Champollion himself had already reflected on. [more]

Town and Country: An Ottoman Album of Imperial Sites from 1905

Research Seminar
  • Public event without registration
  • Date: Apr 30, 2024
  • Time: 06:00 PM - 07:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Deniz Türker
  • Location: Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rome and online
  • Contact: raffaele.rossi@biblhertz.it
This seminar centers on a previously unknown photograph album from 1905, whose images constitute the last photographic representations of Yıldız Palace before its wholesale dismantling in 1909 in the aftermath of Ottoman Sultan Abdülhamid II’s deposition. [more]

Now we have seen. Women and Art in 1970s Italy

Conference
  • Event Location: United States
  • Date: Apr 27, 2024
  • Speaker: Conference
  • Location: Magazzino Italian Art, 2700 US-9, Cold Spring, NY 10516, USA
  • Contact: freiberg@biblhertz.it
The event represents the final stage of the eponymous project launched by the Bibliotheca Hertziana, Max Planck Institute of Art History in Rome in 2022 and concluded with the publication of a collective volume of the same name dedicated to the relationship between art and feminism in 1970s Italy. [more]

Faszination Rom. Maarten van Heemskerck zeichnet die Stadt | The Allure of Rome. Maarten van Heemskerck Draws the City

Exhibition
  • Venue: Kulturforum, Berlin
  • Start: Apr 26, 2024
  • End: Apr 27, 2024
  • Speaker: An exhibition of the Kupferstichkabinett – Staatliche Museen zu Berlin in cooperation with the Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max-Planck-Institut for Art History
  • Contact: sanchez@biblhertz.it
The Kupferstichkabinett Berlin owns two spectacular albums with around 160 drawings by the Dutch artist Maarten van Heemskerck (1498–1574), executed in Rome between 1532 and 1536/37. During these years he wandered through the city, visited collections of antiquities, made pilgrimages to the holy sites, and filled his sketchbook with drawings. [more]

Ways of Landscape: Jean Epstein’s Film Practice and Theory

Screening (April 23, 2024 at 20:00), International Workshop (April 24, 2024)
  • Different Venues / Free Admission until seats available
  • Start: Apr 23, 2024
  • End: Apr 24, 2024
  • Speaker: Film Screening
  • Location: Casa del Cinema, Largo Marcello Mastroianni, 1, Roma and Villino Stroganoff, via Gregoriana 22, Roma
  • Contact: rossi@biblhertz.it
What did the eruptive landscape of Mount Etna represent for Jean Epstein – one of the most important personalities of the French avant-garde – when the film company Pathé sent him to film the lava flow in 1923? This workshop aims to reflect on the abundant and continually stimulating questions that come from the intertwining of Epstein’s film practice and visual theory. [more]

Proxy Wooings and Weddings. From Shakespeare to Rubens

Henriette Hertz Lecture
  • Public event, registration open until April 17
  • Date: Apr 18, 2024
  • Time: 06:00 PM - 07:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: "Henriette Hertz Lecture" by Ramie Targoff
  • Location: Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rom
  • Contact: paulinyi@biblhertz.it
Why does Rubens’s painting of the wedding of Maria de’ Medici and Henri IV lack a portrait of the groom? This paper explores the history of the proxy wedding and the theoretical problems raised by such ceremonies when confronted with expectations of affective bonds between spouses. [more]

Confluenze Digitali: Tutela, valorizzazione, fruizione condivisa del patrimonio artistico aquilano

Conferenza
  • Luogo: Università degli Studi dell'Aquila, L'Aquila
  • Date: Apr 18, 2024
  • Time: 09:00 AM - 06:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Conferenza
  • Location: Viale Nizza 14, 6700 L'Aquila
  • Contact: confluenzedigitali@gmail.com
Accesso, tutela e fruizione di patrimonio culturale dell’Aquila tramite l’aggregazione di dati provenienti da biblioteche, musei, istituti e la loro condivisione su Wikidata. [more]

Alessia Rollo. Visual Narratives of the Italian South

Research Exhibition curated by Viviana Costagliola
  • Date: Apr 17, 2024
  • Speaker: Exhibition curated by Viviana Costagliola
  • Location: Palazzo Zuccari (Foyer, Sala Terrena, Sala del Disegno)
  • Contact: costagliola@biblhertz.it
Visual Narratives of the Italian South features a selection of archival materials from the Archivio Franco Pinna (Roma) in dialogue with works from Alessia Rollo’s Parallel Eyes project. The exhibition is part of Viviana Costagliola's postdoctoral research project “Viaggio al Sud” The Representation of Southern Italy in Photographic Reportage and Tourism Promotion Photography after World War II, supported by the Michalsky department. [more]

Domes of Byzantium under a Gallic Sky: Uses and Receptions of Neo-Byzantine Architecture in Nineteenth-Century France

Research Seminar
  • Public event without registration
  • Date: Apr 15, 2024
  • Time: 11:00 AM - 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Adrien Palladino
  • Location: Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rome and online
  • Contact: raffaele.rossi@biblhertz.it
Paris, Marseille, Lyon, and other French cities are still today dominated by churches whose architecture recalls a long-vanished empire: Byzantium. Why mobilize such architectural imaginaries for some of the country’s most iconic buildings? [more]

Tricontinental Circulations: Visual Politics and Transnational Struggles

Research Seminar
  • Public event without registration
  • Date: Apr 11, 2024
  • Time: 11:00 AM - 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Paula Barreiro López
  • Location: Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rome and online
  • Contact: mara.freiberg@biblhertz.it
With the First Tricontinental Conference in Havana (1966), the efforts of the revolutionary Cuban government were ratified with the configuration of a transnational movement of resistance and solidarity in the Global South (that included Latin America, Africa and Asia). The Tricontinental built an effective visual apparatus via cinema, photography as well as poster production that integrated the struggles of the three continents, creating an imagined community connecting revolutions around the world (from Vietnam to Central America and Nicaragua). [more]

Constantinople Modern: Avant-Garde Arts in Occupied Istanbul, 1918-1923

Research Seminar
  • Public event without registration
  • Date: Apr 10, 2024
  • Time: 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Daniel-Joseph MacArthur-Seal, Gizem Tongo
  • Location: Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rome and online
  • Contact: rossi@biblhertz.it
This talk explores modernist painters, writers, and musicians active in Istanbul during the city’s occupation by British, French, and Italian forces between 1918 and 1923, asking how foreign occupation and the international cultural climate of the period contributed to the creation of an avantgarde. [more]

Shoptalks

  • Date: Apr 4, 2024
  • Time: 09:30 AM - 05:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Elena Armerio, Alev Berberoğlu, Michele D’Aurizio, Lesia Kulchynska, Ronah Sadan, Braden Scott, Ianick Takaes de Oliveira
  • Location: Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rome
  • Contact: 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. [more]

Rocks, Branches, Bones and Folds: Beyond the Surface of Early Modern Drapery

Research Seminar
  • Public event without registration
  • Date: Mar 26, 2024
  • Time: 11:00 AM - 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Amanda Hilliam
  • Location: Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rome and online
  • Contact: mara.freiberg@biblhertz.it
Drapery – characterised by its folds and by its relationship to the human body – emerged as a distinct visual element in the practice and theory of early modern art. As this seminar demonstrates, drapery was highly malleable both in its form and in its capacity to take on meaning in the visual realm, and was thus a particular representational challenge for the artist, as well as a site of expression and virtuosity. [more]

On the Origins of Exhibition Practice in Early Modern Europe (Panel Session at the Renaissance Society of America Annual Conference)

Conference
  • Date: Mar 22, 2024
  • Time: 07:30 AM - 07:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Conference
  • Location: Chicago, USA
This panel at the RSA conference 2024 explores the origins and development of the art exhibition as a practice in early modern Europe, examining its impact on artists' careers, artistic movements, and art-historical discourse, while considering how exhibition practices have evolved from the early modern period to the present. [more]

Cult/Space/Presence of Images. A Workshop on the Art and Cultural Historical Impulses of Hans Belting

Conference
  • Public event without registration
  • Start: Mar 21, 2024 09:00 AM (Local Time Germany)
  • End: Mar 22, 2024 06:30 PM
  • Speaker: Conference
  • Location: Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, RM 00187 Rome and online (Vimeo)
  • Contact: raffaele.rossi@biblhertz.it
The aim of this workshop, a sequel to the one held last year in Brno, is to further illuminate and classify the contribution of Hans Belting (1935–2023) to art history, visual and cultural studies and to reflect on its significance. [more]

Giovanni Testori fra teatro e critica d’arte. Quando il lavoro del critico trapassa nell’invenzione del vero scrittore

Research Seminar
  • Evento pubblico senza registrazione
  • Date: Mar 19, 2024
  • Time: 11:00 AM - 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Davide dall’Ombra, Chiara Cavalleri
  • Location: Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Roma e online
  • Contact: mara.freiberg@biblhertz.it
Narratore, poeta, critico d’arte e pittore. Drammaturgo, regista e anche attore. Giovanni Testori è stato un autore complesso e prolifico, di cui rimane ancora molto da approfondire. Il seminario offre un’occasione per indagare la connessione tra il Testori drammaturgo e il critico d’arte, partendo dalle riflessioni teoriche sul teatro contenute nel saggio del 1968 “Il ventre del teatro”. [more]

In-Between: the Scylla and Charybdis of Official and non-official in the Late Soviet Epoch

Research Seminar
  • Public event without registration
  • Date: Mar 18, 2024
  • Time: 11:00 AM - 01:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Alex Bykov, David Crowley, Agnė Narušytė
  • Location: Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rome and online
  • Contact: mara.freiberg@biblhertz.it
The discussion of Soviet culture often revolves around triggering division into the official and the non-official, which simplifies our knowledge about the distribution of images at that period, omitting their existence in-between the extremities of allowed and forbidden. The research seminar will address these problematic dichotomies on the materials of different realms across the former Soviet space — from architecture to photography. [more]

Mediterranean Paths for Architecture. Malta and the European Community of the Order of Saint John

Research Seminar
  • Public event without registration
  • Date: Mar 15, 2024
  • Time: 02:00 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Armando Antista
  • Location: Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rome and online
  • Contact: mara.freiberg@biblhertz.it
The cosmopolitan context of the Maltese archipelago, its community and its architecture, offer privileged examples of the international circulations of knowledge, models, and ideas of architecture in early modern Europe. [more]

«Romano nell’animo e nel volto». Il paradigma del Duce

Research Seminar
  • Evento pubblico senza registrazione
  • Date: Mar 15, 2024
  • Time: 11:00 AM - 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Andrea Giardina
  • Location: Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Roma e online
  • Contact: mara.freiberg@biblhertz.it
Mussolini fu assimilato a molti grandi personaggi della Roma antica. Ma egli apparve soprattutto come la reincarnazione stessa del tipo romano. Nelle arti e nelle parole scritte e pronunciate, il Duce era la presenza rassicurante del genio della stirpe millenaria nell’Italia fascista. [more]

Brazilian Art and the Return to Painting in the 1980s

Research Seminar
  • Online event via Zoom
  • Date: Mar 13, 2024
  • Time: 11:00 AM - 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Michael Asbury
  • Location: Zoom Platform
  • Contact: mara.freiberg@biblhertz.it
Reviewing the samba school processions during the 1987 carnival in Rio de Janeiro, art critic Frederico Morais cited Achille Bonito Oliva. The Italian art critic and curator had been in Brazil only a few days before, and caused outrage with certain derisory comments about the local culture; notably, that Brazilian art was inextricably associated with samba. [more]

Gernsheim Study Days: Exploring Rome through Drawing in the 16th Century

Gernsheim Study Days
  • Public event without registration
  • Start: Mar 6, 2024
  • End: Mar 8, 2024
  • Speaker: Conference
  • Location: Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, RM 00187 Rome. In person and online
  • Contact: sanchez@biblhertz.it
In 1532, the painter Maarten van Heemskerck (1498–1574) set out on a journey from Haarlem to Rome. A collection of 94 sheets with about 160 drawings in the Berlin Kupferstichkabinett provides a visual testimony to his five-year stay – it is one of the most extensive by an artist traveling to Rome in the 16th century. [more]

Datathink 2024 / AI & Cities: Sampling the Past, Interpreting the Present in Future Tense

  • Keynote conference open to public: March 5, 2024
  • Start: Mar 4, 2024
  • End: Mar 8, 2024
  • Speaker: Workshop and Winter School
  • Location: Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rome and online
  • Contact: freiberg@biblhertz.it
Winter school exploring emerging intersections of artificial intelligence, machine learning, urban studies, urban landscape, and architectural and urban history. [more]

Art and Feminism in Italy in the 1970s

Field Seminar
  • Event Location: Germany
  • Date: Feb 25, 2024
  • Time: 02:00 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Location: Josef Albers Museum, Museumszentrum Quadrat, Anni-Albers-Platz 1, D - 46236 Bottrop
As part of the Italian Council 11 project Now We Have Seen. Women and Art in the Seventies in Italy, a thematic tour is organized at the exhibition Cooking Cleaning Caring. Care Work in the Arts since 1960, held at the Josef Albers Museum in Bottrop in cooperation with the Institute of Art History at the Ruhr University Bochum and curated by Linda Walther and Friederike Sigler with Monja Drossmann and Tonia Andresen. [more]

From Caste to Kant? Göttingen's Enlightenment Racial Scientists and the 'Mestizos' of Peru

Research Seminar – Kant Jubilee 2024
  • Public event without registration
  • Date: Feb 20, 2024
  • Time: 11:00 AM - 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Adrian Masters
  • Location: Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rome and online
  • Contact: freiberg@biblhertz.it
What links an Inca princess to Immanuel Kant, and the son of a disgraced Peruvian conquistador to Johann Friedrich Blumenbach? On the occasion of the 300th anniversary of Kant's birth in 2024, this seminar traces how Iberian ideas of 'mixing' influenced German racial thinking in the crucial Enlightenment period. [more]

Ecology vs. Patriarchy: Women Artists and the Environment, 1962-present (Panel Session at the CAA Annual Conference)

Conference
  • Date: Feb 15, 2024
  • Time: 11:00 AM - 01:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Location: Chicago, USA
The panel at the CAA conference 2024 examines how ecofeminism links environmentalism to the fight against patriarchy, focusing on how women artists have articulated the problems of the second half of the 20th century. [more]

Presentazione del catalogo della mostra Hilde in Italia. Arte e Vita nelle fotografie di Hilde Lotz-Bauer

Presentazione libro
  • External Event Organizer
  • Date: Feb 14, 2024
  • Speaker: Volume a cura di Federica Kappler e Corinna Lotz
  • Location: Museo di Roma in Trastevere, Piazza di S. Egidio, 1/b, 00153 Roma RM
  • Contact: sanchez@biblhertz.it
Il Museo di Roma in Trastevere ospita, mercoledì 14 febbraio alle ore 18.30, la presentazione del catalogo della mostra edito da Gangemi editore e realizzato grazie al sostegno della Bibliotheca Hertziana e del Kunsthistorisches Institut of Florenz.Il volume, curato da Federica Kappler e Corinna Lotz, presenti con gli altri autori Ute Dercks, Alessio De Stefano, Johannes Röll e Regine Schallert, è presentato da Nicoletta Leonardi. Modera la conversazione Tanja Michalsky, Bibliotheca Hertziana. [more]

Neuedition und Übersetzung von Pietro Summontes Brief zur Kunst in Neapel (1524)

Workshop
  • Start: Feb 13, 2024
  • End: Feb 14, 2024
  • Speaker: Conferenza
  • Location: Villa Vigoni – Deutsch-Italienisches Zentrum für den Europäischen Dialog, Via Giulio Vigoni 1, 22017 Loveno di Menaggio (CO), Italia
  • Contact: raffaele.rossi@biblhertz.it
1524 schrieb der neapolitanische Humanist Pietro Summonte einen Brief an Marcantonio Michiel, in dem er über die Geschichte und Kunst Neapels berichtet. In dem interdisziplinären Gespräch an der Villa Vigoni wird dieser erste explizit kunsthistorische Text zu Neapel gemeinsam gelesen und analysiert, um eine Neuedition und eine erstmalige Übersetzung ins Deutsche vorzubereiten. [more]

Il colore nella cultura e nell’arte medievale: teorie, fonti, materiali (1100–1250)

Research Seminar
  • Evento pubblico senza registrazione
  • Date: Feb 8, 2024
  • Time: 11:00 AM - 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Alberto Virdis
  • Location: Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Roma e online
  • Contact: rossi@biblhertz.it
Il colore nella cultura pre-moderna è a tutti gli effetti un “oggetto culturale”. Valutarne il ruolo nella cultura e nell’arte del Medioevo significa innanzitutto avere a che fare con questioni e problemi che interessano linguistica, la scienza, l’estetica e la teologia, oltre che la trattatistica tecnica. [more]

«Post Scriptum» | Grégory Sugnaux – Solo Exhibition

Research Exhibition curated by Lara Demori
  • Start: Jan 31, 2024
  • End: Apr 12, 2024
  • Speaker: Research Exhibition
  • Location: Palazzo Zuccari (Foyer, Sala Terrena, Sala del Disegno)
Art Fellow Grégory Sugnaux presents the corpus of works he has produced during his residency at the Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institute for Art History, delving into the archives, the photographic collection, and the library. Resulting from the project “Shape-Shifting: Transfiguring Art History”, Sugnaux’s solo show will take place on the ground floor of Palazzo Zuccari, yet it will include media material recorded at the “La Cage aux Folles”, a former showroom at the beginning of the 20th century that became a Club in the 1970s.Pursuing the legacy of Aby Warburg’s Iconology, Sugnaux’s project aims to rethink art history through images that mediate between high, popular, and punk culture. [more]

New Fellows’ Presentation

Workshop
  • Public event without registration
  • Date: Dec 6, 2023
  • Time: 04:00 PM - 06:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: New Researchers at the Bibliotheca Hertziana
  • Location: Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, RM 00187 Rome and online (Vimeo)
  • Contact: direktionsassistenz@biblhertz.it
The Bibliotheca Hertziana - Max Planck Institute for Art History comprises two departments and two research groups with a great variety of methodological, historical, and geographical perspectives and themes, ranging from “Cities and Spaces in the Middle Ages” to “Art of the Modern Age in a Global Context”, and from “Visualising Science in Media Revolution” to “Decay, Loss, and Conservation in Art History”. The Institute hosts fellows from diverse regions and backgrounds both at a pre-doc and a post-doc level. [more]

The Worksite in the 16th Century: Architecture and Decoration. Fontainebleau

International Study Seminar
  • Public event without registration
  • Start: Nov 30, 2023 02:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • End: Dec 1, 2023 07:00 PM
  • Speaker: International Study Seminar
  • Location: 30.11.2023: Académie de France à Rome, Villa Médicis, Viale della Trinità dei Monti 1, 00187 Rome, 01.12.2023: Bibliotheca Hertziana, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rome / and online
  • Contact: freiberg@biblhertz.it
The seminar will examine the case of the decoration at the Château of Fontainebleau, a central episode in 16th-century artistic culture in Europe, within the framework of the international research project I cantieri in Europa nel Cinquecento: architettura e decorazione, now at its second stage after the session on Rome held in 2019. Seventy years after the exhibition Fontainebleau e la Maniera italiana (Naples 1952), it is time to return to the artistic relations between Italy and France from the point of view of this important matter, examining the transmission of techniques, languages, artists, craftsmen, and its consequences in both directions. [more]

The Missing Archive: Bauhaus Artists and Designers and the Holocaust

Research Seminar
  • Public event without registration
  • Date: Nov 30, 2023
  • Time: 11:00 AM - 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Elizabeth Otto
  • Location: Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rome and online
  • Contact: sanchez@biblhertz.it
While Bauhaus after 1933 is remembered as a movement in exile, this works-in-progress talk explores the work of three Bauhäusler who were caught up in the National-Socialists’ carceral system and who, until now, have been lost to art history. [more]

Art Against Politics

Film screening with discussion
  • Public event without registration
  • Date: Nov 29, 2023
  • Time: 05:00 PM - 06:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Lena Maria Held, Marcus Nebe
  • Location: Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rome
  • Contact: raffaele.rossi@biblhertz.it
Does art have an effect on non-artistic reality and, if so, to what degree can art shape society and politics? The documentary, "Art Against Politics", provides an array of answers to these questions. [more]

Max Peiffer Watenphul: Photography and the Queer Bauhaus!

Lecture
  • Venue: Museum Casa di Goethe, public event without registration
  • Date: Nov 28, 2023
  • Time: 07:00 PM - 08:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Elizabeth Otto
  • Location: MUSEUM CASA DI GOETHE Via del Corso 18 (Piazza del Popolo), 00186 Rome
  • Contact: sanchez@biblhertz.it
The photographs of Max Peiffer Watenphul, the Bauhaus’s first known queer member, capture campy portraits of his Bauhaus friends, scenes of queer desire, and cityscapes in Italy, where he first traveled as a Rome Prize recipient and later as an exile. [more]

Säulen versus Autos, 1921-1980

Vortrag
  • Öffentliche Veranstaltung ohne Anmeldung
  • Date: Nov 28, 2023
  • Time: 06:00 PM - 07:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Erik Wegerhoff
  • Location: Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rom und online
  • Contact: raffaele.rossi@biblhertz.it
In einer später sehr berühmt gewordenen Bildkonfrontation ließ Le Corbusier 1921 Autos auf antike Tempel prallen. Diese gewollte Kollision von Dynamik und Statik sollte die Architekturdiskussionen des 20. Jahrhunderts weit über die Moderne hinaus prägen. [more]

New Leisure for a New Nation. Art and Entertainment in Italy, from Nation-building to Liberation (1861-1945)

Workshop
  • Public event without registration
  • Start: Nov 22, 2023 09:15 AM (Local Time Germany)
  • End: Nov 23, 2023 05:30 PM
  • Speaker: Workshop
  • Location: Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rome and online
  • Contact: freiberg@biblhertz.it
The aim of the workshop is to analyze how the relationship between artistic representations and new forms of entertainment contributed to the construction of Italian identities during the nation-building process. Particular emphasis will be placed on aspects related to gender, the exhibited and spectacularised body, race and colonial dynamics, as well as regionalisms and the social and class differences that entertainment has contributed to normalising and/or transgressing. [more]

Art History in Conversation with Conservation: The Mysterious Case of David Bailly’s Portrait of a Painter with Vanity Symbols

Part of the research seminar series 'Conserving Histories of Art'
  • Date: Nov 15, 2023
  • Time: 05:00 PM - 06:30 PM (Rome UTC+01:00)
  • Speaker: Karin Leonhard in conversation with Tilly Laaser
  • Location: Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rome and online
  • Contact: john.rattray@biblhertz.it
David Bailly’s Portrait of a Painter with Vanity Symbols, signed and dated 1651, has provided us with a rich history of interpretation. Despite scholars’ different approaches and theories, it is generally understood as a painted autobiography in which there has been sustained reflection on the relationship between visibility and invisibility, between figure and ground. [more]

Medieval Architecture as “Protean Mechanism”: Robert Willis and the Technics of Architectural History

Research Seminar
  • Public event without registration
  • Date: Nov 14, 2023
  • Time: 11:00 AM - 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Mark Crinson
  • Location: Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rome and online
  • Contact: raffaele.rossi@biblhertz.it
What would it mean to understand a medieval church as industrial technology? Rather than a passing theory of our own moment, this idea was actually lodged deep in the discipline of architectural history as it emerged in 19th century Britain. [more]

Shoptalks

  • Date: Nov 7, 2023
  • Time: 09:15 AM - 03:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Philipp Hubert, Julia Vázquez, Tobias Teutenberg, Elenio Cicchini, Kris Racaniello, Chiara Capulli
  • Location: Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rome
  • Contact: freiberg@biblhertz.it
In this one-day event, the fellows of the Bibliotheca Hertziana present their research projects. [more]

A Day in Honour of Ursula Nilgen – and her Foundation for Italian Medieval Studies at the Bibliotheca Hertziana

  • Public event without registration
  • Date: Nov 6, 2023
  • Time: 09:45 AM - 05:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Conference
  • Location: Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rome
  • Contact: rossi@biblhertz.it
This study day honors the memory of art historian Ursula Nilgen with presentations from international scholars that have taken up her research proposals. In this context we will present the Foundation established in her name at the Bibliotheca Hertziana. [more]

Ursula’s Tourist Imaginary

Research Seminar
  • Date: Oct 31, 2023
  • Time: 11:00 AM - 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Patricia Allmer
  • Location: Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rome and online
  • Contact: freiberg@biblhertz.it
This talk will explore the German artist Ursula Schultze-Bluhm’s art in relation to her experiences travelling in the post-war world and her construction in surrealist painting and writing of a ‘tourist imaginary’. [more]

The Art of Decolonization

Research Seminar
  • Public event without registration
  • Date: Oct 30, 2023
  • Time: 11:00 AM - 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Maureen Murphy
  • Location: Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rome and online
  • Contact: freiberg@biblhertz.it
Focusing on the years of decolonization, this presentation will develop a transnational and transhistorical study of the artistic and diplomatic exchanges between France and Senegal from the 1950 to 1970s. [more]

Drawing Comparisons: Images in Comparative Anatomy, 1500–1900

Conference
  • Public event without registration
  • Date: Oct 20, 2023
  • Time: 10:30 AM - 06:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Workshop
  • Location: Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rome and online
  • Contact: katja.hackstein@biblhertz.it
The history of art and the practice of anatomy have long depended upon similar acts of comparison: identifying, visualizing and describing likenesses. This workshop investigates the role of images in developing comparative anatomy — the study of anatomy across species — in early modern Europe. [more]

Mauro Staccioli: Cementing an Artistic Legacy | Mauro Staccioli: Consolidare un’eredità artistica

Research exhibition curated by Marica Antonucci
  • Start: Oct 19, 2023
  • End: Jan 19, 2024
  • Speaker: Research Exhibition
  • Location: Bibliotheca Hertziana, Via Gregoriana 30, 00187 Roma
  • Contact: freiberg@biblhertz.it
Mauro Staccioli: Cementing an Artistic Legacy | Mauro Staccioli: Consolidare un’eredità artistica (18 October 2023 – 19 January 2024) examines the work of Mauro Staccioli through a selection of archival materials. The exhibition is curated by Marica Antonucci. [more]

Nuove fonti documentarie su Ludwig Pollak, un protagonista del mercato internazionale dell'arte nella prima metà del '900

Research Seminar
  • Evento pubblico senza registrazione
  • Date: Oct 19, 2023
  • Time: 11:00 AM - 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Federica De Giambattista
  • Location: Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Roma e online
  • Contact: sanchez@biblhertz.it
L’archeologo, connoisseur e mercante d’arte praghese Ludwig Pollak (1868–1943) è stato uno dei principali protagonisti del mercato dell’arte e del collezionismo a Roma tra la fine del XIX secolo e i primi decenni del Novecento. [more]

Scultura italiana dal secondo dopoguerra agli anni Ottanta

Workshop
  • Evento pubblico senza registrazione
  • Date: Oct 18, 2023
  • Time: 03:00 PM - 06:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Workshop
  • Location: Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Roma e online
  • Contact: freiberg@biblhertz.it
Il workshop “Scultura italiana dal dopoguerra agli anni Ottanta” — in occasione della mostra “Mauro Staccioli: Cementing a Legacy” presso Bibliotheca Hertziana — mira ad approfondire aspetti meno studiati e controversi della scultura italiana del secondo dopoguerra, prendendo come punto di partenza l’opera di Mauro Staccioli in tutte le sue sfaccettature. [more]

Research Seminar Series "Methodology and Ideology: Critical Perspectives on the Historical Paradigms of Art History" (7th Research Seminar): Mandrake. A Natural History of Image Making

Research Seminar
  • Date: Oct 17, 2023
  • Time: 11:00 AM - 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Ulrich Pfisterer
  • Location: Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rome and online
  • Host: freiberg@biblhertz.it
  • Contact: freiberg@biblhertz.it
Mandrakes mark the boundary of nature and art. They were coveted objects for medicine, natural history, magic and collections. Supposedly, these human-like roots grow naturally. However, in the early modern period, it was also common knowledge that they were often faked. [more]

Generic Pastness. AI Image Synthesis and the Virtualization of the Archive

Research Seminar
  • Public event without registration
  • Date: Oct 13, 2023
  • Time: 11:00 AM - 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Roland Meyer
  • Location: Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rome and online
  • Contact: sanchez@biblhertz.it
AI image synthesis models are turning large collections of historical images into resources for producing new visual content. How does this affect our view of the past, and what does it mean for image archives to become sites of pattern extraction? [more]

Media Histories of Sculpture

Workshop
  • Date: Oct 12, 2023
  • Time: 09:00 AM - 06:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Workshop
  • Location: Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rome and online
  • Contact: freiberg@biblhertz.it
As Marshall McLuhan argued in his seminal Understanding Media, the “hybridizing or compounding” of media “offers an especially favorable opportunity to notice their structural components and properties.” This workshop seeks to explore sculpture’s intermedial entanglements and asks what these may reveal about the medium of sculpture. [more]

Memorie coloniali e Nation Building. Italia e Germania a confronto

Convegno
  • Evento fuori sede
  • Start: Oct 6, 2023
  • End: Oct 7, 2023
  • Speaker: Convegno
  • Location: Goethe Institut Rom, Auditorium (Via Savoia 15, Roma); Dipartimento di Scienze Politiche, Sala lauree, Università La Sapienza, Roma (Piazzale Aldo Moro, Roma)
  • Contact: freiberg@biblhertz.it
L’Europa ha fatto realmente i conti con la sua storia coloniale? Italia e Germania, protagonisti tardivi della scramble for Africa, hanno davvero prodotto colonialismi minori? E oggi questi due paesi come si confrontano con quel passato, in che modo agiscono sulla memoria discorsiva e visuale, partecipando alla costruzione della loro narrazione nazionale? [more]

Art and Matronage: G. E. Street, the ‘Buffalo Girls’, and the Gothic Revival between London and Rome

Research Seminar
  • Public event without registration
  • Date: Oct 5, 2023
  • Time: 11:00 AM - 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Alex Bremner
  • Location: Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rome and online
  • Contact: raffaele.rossi@biblhertz.it
Are the achievements of the Gothic Revival in the Victorian period solely attributable to men? The different and not so obvious ways in which other types of agency exerted influence over the design process should give us pause for thought. [more]

Giorgio de Chirico and the Modern Literary Imagination

Lecture
  • Public event without registration
  • Date: Oct 4, 2023
  • Time: 06:00 PM - 08:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: "Henriette Hertz Lecture" by Emily Braun
  • Location: Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rom
  • Contact: freiberg@biblhertz.it
A painter poet and a poet’s painter, Giorgio de Chirico arguably influenced the 20th century literary imagination more than any other modernist artist. This lecture considers why his art entranced the American poets John Ashbery, Elizabeth Bishop, Sylvia Plath, and Mark Strand. [more]

Giulio Romano - Intorno a un disegno della Collezione Hertz

Research Exhibition
  • Start: Sep 26, 2023
  • End: Oct 6, 2023
  • Speaker: Research Exhibition
  • Location: Bibliotheca Hertziana, Via Gregoriana 30
  • Contact: scholl@biblhertz.it
This research exhibition focuses on one of Giulio Romano's preparatory drawings for the famous fresco cycle created for the great hall of the Villa Lante on the Janiculum Hill, today preserved in Palazzo Zuccari. The recent restoration of the drawing The Liberation of Cloelia (in the collection of the Bibliotheca Hertziana) has provided an opportunity to highlight the special appreciation for Italian Renaissance art of Henriette Hertz, cosmopolitan collector, and the founder of the Bibliotheca Hertziana. [more]

Italianisms in Soviet Architecture of the Thaw Era

Research Seminar
  • Public event without registration
  • Date: Sep 26, 2023
  • Time: 11:00 AM - 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Christian Toson
  • Location: Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rome and online
  • Contact: freiberg@biblhertz.it
How do we trace architectural connections between two countries in the deeply interconnected and mazed twentieth-century world? The new look at the archival data can enrich our understanding of the workings of the architectural profession in the Cold War period. [more]

Past and Present Representations of Historical Urban Spaces (Middle Ages – Early Modern Times)

Workshop
  • Start: Sep 21, 2023 09:00 AM (Local Time Germany)
  • End: Sep 23, 2023 01:00 PM
  • Speaker: Workshop
  • Location: CAAS – Center for Advanced Academic Studies University of Zagreb Don Frana Bulića 4 Dubrovnik – Croatia
  • Contact: rossi@biblhertz.it
Historic cities are reconstructed and represented in numerous different projects around the world, whereby the hermeneutics of the procedure are not addressed enough. This workshop aims to discuss historical representations of urban spaces (in the late Middle Ages and Early Modern times) in comparison with the representations of these spaces in digital art history, focusing on the relationships between precision and interpretation. [more]

From Leeuwenhoek to the Electron Microscope

Lecture
  • Venue: London, UK
  • Date: Sep 14, 2023
  • Time: 06:00 PM - 07:30 PM (London UTC+01:00)
  • Speaker: Katharine Cashman, Matthew Cobb, Dirk van Miert
  • Location: The Royal Society, 6-9 Carlton House Terrace, St. James’s, London SW1Y 5AG, UK. HYBRID EVENT:https://royalsociety.org/science-events-and-lectures/2023/09/leeuwenhoek-evening-public-event/
  • Contact: katja.hackstein@biblhertz.it
Join us for a discussion and Q&A with Professor Katharine Cashman FRS, Professor Matthew Cobb, and Dr Dirk van Miert to celebrate Antoni van Leeuwenhoek and the development of microscopy to the present day. [more]

Antoni van Leeuwenhoek (1632-1723) and His Impact on the History of Microscopy

International Conference
  • Venue: London, UK
  • Start: Sep 14, 2023 09:00 AM (London UTC+01:00)
  • End: Sep 15, 2023 05:00 PM
  • Speaker: Conference
  • Location: The Royal Society 6-9 Carlton House Terrace, St. James's, London SW1Y 5AG, UK / Public event with ticket sales – please see website of the Royal Society here below
  • Contact: katja.hackstein@biblhertz.it
Three hundred years ago the Dutch microscopist Antoni van Leeuwenhoek died. He had been corresponding with the Royal Society for fifty years. Leeuwenhoek, born in Delft in the Netherlands in 1632, developed himself into one of the most prolific early microscopists. He made his own lenses and small hand-held microscopes which were more versatile than most other devices at the time. With these instruments and his outstanding preparation and observation techniques, he was the first to see and describe red blood cells, bacteria and many other things. [more]

The 34th ACM Hypertext Conference 2023: Hypertext and Social Media

Conference
  • Start: Sep 4, 2023 01:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • End: Sep 8, 2023 04:00 PM
  • Speaker: Conference
  • Location: Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Roma
  • Contact: alessandro.adamou@biblhertz.it
The ACM Hypertext conference is a premium venue for high-quality research on all aspects of modern hypertext research: social and intelligent media, narrative systems, authoring, reading and publishing hypertext, workflows and infrastructures. [more]

Hertziana App Release

Presentation
  • Date: Jul 10, 2023
  • Time: 06:00 PM - 07:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Presentation
  • Location: Bibliotheca Hertziana, Via Gregoriana 30
  • Contact: scholl@biblhertz.it
Discover the Bibliotheca Hertziana with new eyes! On July 10, 2023, the Hertziana app will be released, enabling you to immerse yourself in the Institute's buildings, furnishings and architectural decoration through novel augmented reality technology. [more]

Mappare lo spazio sacro: dal frammento al contesto (Italia, XI-XIV sec.)

Convegno
  • Start: Jul 10, 2023 02:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • End: Jul 12, 2023 02:00 PM
  • Speaker: Convegno
  • Location: Bibliotheca Hertziana – MPI, Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22 & Sapienza Università di Roma, Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia, Aula di Archeologia, Piazzale Aldo Moro 5
  • Contact: rossi@biblhertz.it
Ripensare e ricostituire idealmente lo spazio sacro medievale costituisce una tappa epistemologica obbligata se si vogliono comprendere a fondo gli scenari entro i quali sono stati performati i riti e i contesti per i quali sono stati concepiti gli oggetti. [more]

Towards a Multi-Resolution Archaeology: Reframing the Role of 3D Models in the Study of Ancient Space

Research Seminar
  • Date: Jul 6, 2023
  • Time: 11:00 AM - 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Giacomo Landeschi
  • Location: Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rome and online
  • Contact: rossi@biblhertz.it
This talk will discuss theoretical and methodological aspects related to 3D modelling in archaeology and cultural heritage, drawing upon a selection of case studies from Pompeii, where emerging techniques including VR-based Eye-Tracking and 3D GIS have been introduced. [more]

Early Modern Poland-Lithuania and the Spectre of Orientalism

Research Seminar Series: “Shifting Images and Ideas of Europe’s East: An Art Historical Approach from the Margins”
  • Public event without registration
  • Date: Jul 3, 2023
  • Time: 03:00 PM - 05:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Tomasz Grusiecki
  • Location: Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rome and online
  • Contact: freiberg@biblhertz.it
Speaking of Europe often presupposes the existence of a stable unity of people with a common history, culture and identity. Yet it is not only the current political crisis that reveals major imbalances within the continent, where the gap between ‘West’ and ‘East’ looms particularly large. This series of research seminars offers the opportunity to read Europe's East from a historical perspective, in its relationship to other European regions, some of them (self-)declared as the center, as well as to the neighboring continent of Asia. [more]

Artists as Futurists? On the History of Durability in Art and the Making of the Future

Research Seminar
  • Public event without registration
  • Date: Jun 30, 2023
  • Time: 11:00 AM - 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Marjolijn Bol
  • Location: Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rome
  • Contact: katja.hackstein@biblhertz.it
Why did artists want to make objects they hoped would last a long time? And why did their patrons want to own long-lasting works of art? This talk will give an introduction to Dynamics of the Durable: A History of Making Things Last in the Visual and Decorative Arts (DURARE), a project funded by the European Research Council. [more]

Observing and Thinking through Drawing

Workshop
  • Public event with registration
  • Date: Jun 28, 2023
  • Time: 10:00 AM - 06:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Workshop
  • Location: Palazzo Zuccari, Via Gregoriana 28, Sala Riunioni, 00187 Rome
  • Host: katja.hackstein@biblhertz.it
In this workshop we explore practices of drawing as an act of observing the world. With examples from the fifteenth to the seventeenth centuries we will discuss the traces of thinking, learning and observation that we can find in drawings by artists and scientific practitioners. [more]

Towards a Collaborative Cultural Analysis of the City of Rome

Workshop
  • Public event without registration
  • Start: Jun 26, 2023 12:00 AM (Local Time Germany)
  • End: Jun 28, 2023 12:00 AM
  • Speakers: Workshop
  • Location: Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rome
  • Contact: freiberg@biblhertz.it
The purpose of the workshop is to explore the state-of-the-art and the joint emerging opportunities towards a perhaps radically novel, collaborative, and multidisciplinary understanding of the city of Rome, as imagined, represented, and enacted in historical sources and modern data. [more]

Now we have seen. Women and Art in the Seventies in Italy

Workshop
  • Public event without registration
  • Date: Jun 22, 2023
  • Time: 11:00 AM - 04:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Workshop
  • Location: Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, RM 00187 Rome and online (Vimeo)
  • Host: freiberg@biblhertz.it
A thematic and methodological comparison between the participants and with the public preparatory to the publication of the homonymous collective volume, scheduled for spring 2024, dedicated to the relationship between art and feminism in 1970s Italy. [more]

Il lavoro in città VII: Essere donne (Cecilia Mangini, 1964)

Ciclo di Film Seminars
  • Evento pubblico senza registrazione
  • Start: Jun 21, 2023
  • End: Jun 22, 2023
  • Speaker: Ciclo: Il lavoro in città. Spazio urbano, corpi femminili e forme del lavoro nel cinema italiano degli anni ’50 e ’60
  • Location: Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22 e Palazzo Zuccari, Via Gregoriana 28
  • Contact: rossi@biblhertz.it
Con l’inizio degli anni Cinquanta, la ripresa degli studi di Cinecittà come luogo della produzione coincide con il racconto cinematografico del suo stesso impatto come macchina dello spettacolo. Allo stesso tempo Roma, con la sua espansione urbanistica e trasformazione edilizia, continua a essere esplorata sebbene in discontinuità con l’esperienza neorealista. Gli studi di via Tuscolana, le scalinate di Piazza di Spagna, le consolari che collegano il centro con le aree più periferiche, il nuovo Ponte Marconi, sono solo alcuni dei luoghi di Roma resi iconici e animati dalle reti affettive e sociali attivate dal racconto filmico di questo decennio. [more]

Scraping the Surface: Mezzotint and the Delicate Matter of Skin in Eighteenth-Century Britain

Part of the research seminar series 'Conserving Histories of Art'
  • Date: Jun 20, 2023
  • Time: 05:00 PM - 06:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Jennifer Chuong in conversation with Esther Chadwick
  • Location: Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Roma & Zoom
  • Contact: john.rattray@biblhertz.it
Made by rocking a toothed blade across a plate thousands of times to create a delicate burred surface and then scraping or burnishing the burrs to create tonal gradations, the mezzotint – both as matrix and print – is notoriously fragile. [more]

From the Street to the Museum and Back to the Street…

Research Seminar
  • Public event without registration
  • Date: Jun 20, 2023
  • Time: 02:00 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Hou Hanru
  • Location: Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Roma e online
  • Contact: freiberg@biblhertz.it
A seminar led by Hou Hanru, on the interaction between artistic interventions in the urban space and the evolution of the institution. Contemporary art has a powerful and perpetual “tradition” of negotiating with the boundary between real life and art, between everyday space and institutional frameworks. [more]

Time As Form and Movement in Medieval Diagrams

Research Seminar
  • Public event without registration
  • Date: Jun 15, 2023
  • Time: 03:00 PM - 05:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Saskia Quené
  • Location: Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rome and online
  • Contact: katja.hackstein@biblhertz.it
Located between the sensory and the imaginative, the quadrivium of musica, cosmology, arithmetic, and geometry was nonetheless grounded in the realm of the visual. In manuscripts, time and eternity appear as diagrams, graphs, and line drawings using parchment, ink, and pigments. [more]

Gnoseology, Aesthesis, Decoloniality

Lecture
  • Public event without registration
  • Date: Jun 15, 2023
  • Time: 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Walter D. Mignolo
  • Location: Museo delle Civiltà, Piazza Guglielmo Marconi, 14, Rome, Sala Conferenze
  • Contact: freiberg@biblhertz.it
In this lecture, Prof. W.D. Mignolo will address the themes of decolonization and artistic practices, at the invitation of Museo delle Civiltà’s research fellow DAAR – Alessandro Petti and Sandi Hilal. The lecture is promoted as part of the collaboration between Museo delle Civiltà and the Bibliotheca Hertziana’s Research Unit Decolonizing Italian Visual and Material Culture. [more]

Shoptalks

  • Date: Jun 14, 2023
  • Time: 10:00 AM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Sara Vitacca, Malvina Giordana, Duccio Nobili, Hannah Casey, Wenyi Qian, Torben Hanhart, Alejandro Nodarse
  • Location: Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rome
  • Contact: freiberg@biblhertz.it
In the Shoptalks, the Fellows of the Bibliotheca Hertziana present their Research Projects. [more]

Art as Project, Project as Art: Antonio Dias and Painting after Conceptual Art

Research Seminar
  • Online event via Zoom
  • Date: Jun 13, 2023
  • Time: 02:00 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Sérgio Bruno Martins
  • Location: Zoom Platform
  • Contact: freiberg@biblhertz.it
In this research seminar, Sérgio B. Martins explores two competing notions of project that informed Antonio Dias's painting in the early 1970s, one relating to the unfinished project as a subgenre of Conceptual art and the other to Italian debates apropos of the crisis of the historicity of modern art. [more]

Research Seminar Series "Methodology and Ideology: Critical Perspectives on the Historical Paradigms of Art History" (6th Research Seminar): Whose 'Reality'? Art, Philosophy and Ideology in the ČSSR, 1948-1978

Research Seminar
  • Public event without registration
  • Date: Jun 12, 2023
  • Time: 11:00 AM - 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Hana Gründler
  • Location: Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rome and online
  • Host: freiberg@biblhertz.it
  • Contact: freiberg@biblhertz.it
Departing from Karel Teige’s essay Realism, the lecture first examines how the so-called non-conformist artists and philosophers in the ČSSR problematized and deconstructed the highly disputed notion of ‘reality’. [more]

From Late Medieval to Early Modern Love Boxes

Research Seminar
  • Public event without registration
  • Date: Jun 6, 2023
  • Time: 02:00 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Amy Knight Powell
  • Location: Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rome and online
  • Contact: freiberg@biblhertz.it
They “used to have, in their rooms, great wooden chests in the form of sarcophagi. . . and there were none that did not have the said chests painted. . .” [more]

Rome 10th Century

Conference
  • Public event without registration
  • Start: Jun 6, 2023
  • End: Jun 10, 2023
  • Speaker: Conference
  • Location: Rome, Italy (BHMPI, École française de Rome, Sapienza Università di Roma)
  • Contact: rossi@biblhertz.it
The conference aims to draw the attention of the scientific community to the history and history of art in Rome during the 10th century, to fill the many existing historiographical and methodological gaps. [more]
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