Materiality and Mediality

The early modern materiality and mediality section is devoted to the study of the bodily dimension of works of art (their materiality) and the role it plays in the way these objects communicate (their mediality).

A work of art can be understood as a solid or semi-solid agglomeration of components that each have their own sensual properties – e.g. pulverous, fibrous, venous, liquid – and practical implications – e.g. making the work portable, interactive or recyclable. Many consequences of this material embodiment have been overlooked by the fields of visual studies and early modern art history. This is the case, for example, of the dynamic properties of artistic materials, namely the way they react to movement, touch, heat or light.

This research focus proposes to look anew at the visual culture of the early modern period by devoting special attention to overlooked materials and medial properties. Of particular interest are the various ways in which these materials and medial properties contribute to the communicative efficacy of a work or a display, as well as their impact on the aesthetic, social and ritual use of objects. The section builds on previous research on early modern textiles.

Events

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

International Study Seminar
Public event without registration
Nov 30, 2023 02:30 PM (Local Time Germany) - Dec 1, 2023 07:00 PM
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

Media Histories of Sculpture

Workshop
Public event without registration
Oct 12, 2023 09:00 AM - 06:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rome and online

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

Marjolijn Bol
Public event without registration
Jun 30, 2023 11:00 AM - 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rome

From Late Medieval to Early Modern Love Boxes

Amy Knight Powell
Public event without registration
Jun 6, 2023 02:00 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rome and online

Imperial Games: Visuality, Tactility and Synaesthesia

Ting Chang
Public event without registration
May 23, 2023 11:00 AM - 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, RM 00187 Rome and online (Vimeo)

Colour matters: New approaches to chromatic materiality: the ERC project CHROMOTOPE (2019-2024)

Charlotte Ribeyrol
Public event without registration
May 15, 2023 11:00 AM - 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, RM 00187 Rome and online (Vimeo)

‘Mental Spinning’: The Female Craft of Thought in the Dutch Republic

Hanneke Grootenboer
Public event without registration
Apr 18, 2023 02:00 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rome and online

Portraits and Pathologies. Likenesses and Clinical Pictures in Early Nineteenth-Century France

Mechthild Fend
Public event without registration
Apr 4, 2023 11:00 AM - 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Roma & Zoom

The Technical Study of Bernini’s Bronzes: Art History, Conservation, Material Science

Workshop with Evonne Levy, Jane Bassett, Lisa Ellis
Nov 17, 2022 11:00 AM - 03:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rom

Queer Collecting and Masculine Desire in Fin-de-Siècle Period

Damien Delille
Online event via Zoom (previous registration) and on site
Jun 7, 2022 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Roma & Zoom

The Smell of Paint: Towards an Olfactory History of 19th-Century Painting

Érika Wicky
Online event via Zoom and on site (previous registration)
Mar 8, 2022 11:00 AM - 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rom

Film Seminar "Talking Hands"

Screening & Artist Talk with Emanuel Almborg
Online event via Zoom
Feb 21, 2022 04:00 PM - 06:00 PM (Local Time Germany)

Shards of the New World: Painting on Obsidian and the Ecologies of Early Modern Art

Christopher J. Nygren
Online event via Zoom and on site (previous registration)
Dec 6, 2021 04:00 PM - 06:00 PM (Local Time Germany)

Contemporaneità barocca: riletture incrociate di due mostre attuali

Workshop
Evento a numero chiuso e non ci sono più posti disponbili.
Sep 20, 2021 09:45 AM - 05:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Roma: Galleria Borghese e Palazzo Barberini

Marble. Connections and Refractions

Workshop
Only Keynote Lecture open to public via Zoom
Sep 16, 2021 06:00 PM (Local Time Germany) - Sep 18, 2021 06:00 PM
Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rom

Il restauro delle antichità a Roma tra fine '700 e primo '800. Modelli e vicende nei Musei Capitolini

Chiara Mannoni
May 31, 2021 03:00 PM - 05:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Musei Capitolini, Roma

Roma, Atene e l'Europa. Tutela delle antichità e mercato d’arte tra fine '700 e primo '800

Chiara Mannoni
Evento online via Zoom
May 31, 2021 11:00 AM - 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany)

Knotting Time: Lace, Labor and Gender in Italy

Anna Dumont
Online event via Zoom
May 24, 2021 04:00 PM - 06:00 PM (Local Time Germany)

"Benché senza colori abbino tutta la forza dell’arte". Monocromia nella teoria e nella pratica pittorica dal Trecento al Seicento

Workshop
Evento online via Zoom
May 18, 2021 02:30 PM (Local Time Germany) - May 20, 2021 02:00 PM

A Space for the Soul: Fra Angelico’s Last Judgment for Santa Maria degli Angeli

Rebekah Compton
Online event via Zoom
Mar 23, 2021 11:00 AM - 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany)

Freedom of Movement, by Nina Fischer and Maroan el Sani

Filmscreening
Online event via Zoom. Further details will be announced shortly.
Nov 6, 2020 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM (Local Time Germany)

Altruistic Desire and Self-Abnegation in the Crypts of Santa Maria della Concezione

Jason Di Resta
Online event via Zoom - NOTE: BEGIN at 10:30
Nov 2, 2020 09:30 AM - 11:30 AM (Local Time Germany)
Online via zoom

Double Projection: Two Art Historical Film Essays – Carl Lamb "Raum im kreisenden Licht" (1936) and David Y. Kim / Amelia Saul "The Desert in the Lagoon" (2020)

David Young Kim; Amelia Saul; Barbara Schrödl
Please check announcement for the related links.
Jun 8, 2020 04:00 PM - 06:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Online (Zoom/Streaming)

San Paolo fuori le mura and Roman Historicism in the 1830s

Richard Wittman
Event canceled, new date to be defined!
Mar 23, 2020 11:00 AM - 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rom

"E cosi di questa ponderatione si farà un libro particolare": Poetics of Balance in the Italian Renaissance

Etienne Jollet
Event canceled, new date to be defined!
Mar 16, 2020 11:00 AM - 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rom

Mobile Materials. Currents, Circulations, Metabolisms

Event canceled
Mar 12, 2020 02:00 PM - 06:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rom

Il cantiere del cinquecento: architettura a decorazione. I. Roma

Prenotazione obbligatoria entro il 25.11 per la giornata del 26.11
Nov 25, 2019 02:00 PM (Local Time Germany) - Nov 27, 2019 06:00 PM
Istituto Svizzero di Roma, Musei Vaticani, Bibliotheca Hertziana

The Pictorial Evidence of Ruins: From Rome to Homs

Nov 14, 2019 03:00 PM (Local Time Germany) - Nov 15, 2019 01:00 PM
Istituto Svizzero di Roma, Academia Belgica, Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institute for Art History

Menacing Laughter and other Bodily Contortion

Francesca Alberti
Nov 12, 2019 11:00 AM - 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rom

The Agency of Architectural Settings – Invention, Time and Place in Fra Angelico's Nicholas V Chapel

Registration required - Fully booked
Oct 29, 2019 02:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Cappella Niccolina, Vatican Apostolic Palace

The Agency of Architectural Settings – Invention, Time and Place in Fra Angelico's Nicholas V Chapel

Livia Lupi
Oct 29, 2019 11:00 AM - 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rom

Conceptualising the Picture Plane: Illusionism and Flatness in Titian's Painting

Giorgio Tagliaferro
Oct 1, 2019 02:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rom

Art History in Black and White. Unwanted Colour Reproductions and Art Historical Methods.

Monika Wagner
Oct 1, 2019 11:00 AM (Local Time Germany)
Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rom

Renaissance Architectural Prints and the Cultural Techniques of Copying

Michael J. Waters
May 14, 2019 01:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rom

Arctic Ink

Christopher P. Heuer
Apr 16, 2019 11:00 AM (Local Time Germany)
Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rom

Marks in the Sand: Abstraction, Aesthetics, and the Definition of the Human

Rebecca Zorach
Mar 5, 2019 11:00 AM (Local Time Germany)

Art in Outer Space (1969)

Tristan Weddigen
Feb 6, 2019 06:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rom

Practical Knowledge of Art History. Romantic Painters as Scholars in the 19th Century.

Michael Thimann
Nov 27, 2018 12:00 PM - 02:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rom

Frameworks for Meaning and Experience in the Mendicant Convent

Andrew Chen
Nov 13, 2018 12:00 PM - 02:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rom

Margins of early Renaissance painting

Christopher S. Wood
Oct 16, 2018 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rom

Folds, Flesh, and Fruit - The Touch of Grace in Paintings of Chardin and Boucher

Julia Gelshorn
Oct 9, 2018 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rom

On Edible Images: Artefacts and the Constitution of Community

Jérémie Koering
Sep 11, 2018 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rom

Berühmte 'Mütter', ungleiche 'Schwestern' - sprechende Verwandtschaften zwischen Bildern weiblicher Exempla in der Frühen Neuzeit

Jun 21, 2018 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany) - Jun 22, 2018 03:00 PM
Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rom

Figure, Ground, Point, Field

David Young Kim
May 22, 2018 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rom

Early Modern Intermediality II

May 9, 2018 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany) - May 10, 2018 01:00 PM
Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rom

Behind the Surface of Raphael's Drawings

Angelamaria Aceto
May 7, 2018 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rom

From Woodworms to Earworms: Entomological Imagination and Obsessive Thinking in the Early Modern Period

Guido Giglioni
Apr 10, 2018 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rom

Looking Awry at Titian's Sacred and Profane Love

Maria H. Loh
Mar 13, 2018 11:00 AM (Local Time Germany)
Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rom
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