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

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

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

Sérgio Bruno Martins
Online event via Zoom
Jun 13, 2023 02:00 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Zoom Platform

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)

Neobaroque Modern: Oscar Niemeyer and the Construction of a Brazilian Identity

Tristan Weddigen
Feb 8, 2023 06:00 PM - 07:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rome

Connected Constellations. Networks of Artistic and Political Solidarity with Chile

Workshop
Feb 2, 2023 09:45 AM - 05:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, RM 00187 Rome and online (Vimeo)

Research Seminar Series "Methodology and Ideology: Critical Perspectives on the Historical Paradigms of Art History" (4th Research Seminar): Seeing through Madness: A Roman Holiday

W. J. T. Mitchell
Event on-site and online
Nov 15, 2022 02:00 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rom
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