Materiality and Mediality

Materiality and Mediality takes as its focus the reciprocal relationship between the facture of objects and the making of meaning. The questions addressed in this focus build upon ongoing research on textility. Material observations of textiles from Gottfried Semper onward have played a special role in the historiography of our field, and the study of textiles demands both new economic, social, and material approaches to the history of art, from canvas painting to tapestry, while also emphasizing global movements of materials, techniques, and makers.

More broadly, the study of materials encompasses both the complex negotiation of human makers with material resistances, and the way materials change physically and in terms of their reception over time. From the extraction and procurement of raw materials to the sensual qualities of finished products, the study of an object’s materiality brings forth histories of labor, trade, technology, and the environment that have been traditionally considered beyond the remit of art history. Concomitantly, media theory is a useful tool to examine how medium shapes the behavior of works of art, which becomes especially pronounced when new media emerge and spread. Both materiality and mediality impact the aesthetic, social, and ritual understanding of works of art. The study of materials and media invite approaches to the history of art that span geographies and chronologies in new and challenging ways. Materiality and Mediality serves as a broad framework to examine visual culture using sets of methodological tools that can shed new light on canonical works of art while simultaneously integrating overlooked objects into larger art historical narratives.

Events

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

Tristan Weddigen
Public event without registration
Oct 2, 2024 06:30 PM - 08:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rome and online

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

Valérie Kobi
Public event without registration
Sep 10, 2024 11:00 AM - 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rome

Bernini, Materials, and Race

Evonne Levy
Public event without registration
May 27, 2024 02:00 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rome and online

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

Amanda Hilliam
Public event without registration
Mar 26, 2024 11:00 AM - 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rome and online

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

Armando Antista
Public event without registration
Mar 15, 2024 02:00 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rome and online

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
Oct 12, 2023 09:00 AM - 06:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rome and online

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

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
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
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)

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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