The Transnational History of Art History

The global reception of Heinrich Wölfflin's Principles of Art History and the ongoing publication of his Complete Works, which have served as the pillars of this research focus, are used to conceive of the history of art history in a transnational perspective as a migration of ideas, texts, and authors. Starting from these texts, the project expands invites critical reflection on the globalization of historical and contemporary research methods and technologies, such as photographs and image databases. Exploring early scholarship on Indian art, for example, leads to new questions about form and formalism, the role of geometric abstraction as a modern universal language of art, and artistic research and art history, which have their roots in classical Italian art and art theory. The goal is to inspire a critical history of methods, theory and research that places Italian art, architecture, and art theory of the early modern period in the context of transnational aesthetic discourses and within the framework of a geography of concepts and terms.

 

 

Events

Humanist Cultures in Colonial Latin America

Patricia Zalamea
Public event without registration
May 28, 2024 02:00 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rome and online

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

Alexandra Chiriac
Public event without registration
May 28, 2024 11:00 AM - 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rome and online

Jerusalem in Rome, Constantinople, and Venice: Four Cities and the Idea of a ‘Holy of Holies’

Holger A. Klein
May 14, 2024 11:00 AM - 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rome and online

Tricontinental Circulations: Visual Politics and Transnational Struggles

Paula Barreiro López
Public event without registration
Apr 11, 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

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

Ulrich Pfisterer
Oct 17, 2023 11:00 AM - 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rome and online

Italianisms in Soviet Architecture of the Thaw Era

Christian Toson
Public event without registration
Sep 26, 2023 11:00 AM - 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rome and online

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

Hana Gründler
Public event without registration
Jun 12, 2023 11:00 AM - 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rome and online

The Notion of Renaissance, Between History and Myth. Origins, Transformations, New-Perspectives

Conference
Public event with registration / May 26: participation only online still available
May 24, 2023 03:00 PM (Local Time Germany) - May 27, 2023 01:00 PM
VIVE – Vittoriano e Palazzo Venezia, Sala del Refettorio, Via del Plebiscito 118, 00186 Roma (May 24th, 25th, 27th) and Bibliotheca Hertziana, Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Roma (May 26th)
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