Events

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]