Events

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]

In this one-day event, fellows share insights and findings from the research projects they are undertaking at the Bibliotheca Hertizana. [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]

How does one see what one is trained to overlook? In three case studies, this seminar will look at archivalia stripped of their data and translated into a charged genre of art history to reveal different forms of information; at an infrastructural building analyzed not through its construction, but its temporal cycles and the duration of its forms; at the intelligence of loss in the archive, embedded in disappearances of matter and the emergences of flora and fauna. [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]