Global Power/Local Memory: Funeral Monuments on the Iberian and Italian Peninsulas during the Spanish-Habsburg Rule

In the 62 years since Erwin Panofsky published his “Four Lectures” on tomb sculpture in 1964, art history has produced a vast and increasingly complex body of research. The workshop seeks to question recent methodological assumptions and to open up new perspectives on the study of funerary monuments by situating them within a broader, culturally and socially heterogeneous context: that of the Mediterranean Spanish Habsburg Empire. While individual studies of funerary monuments exist for the Iberian Peninsula, Naples, Milan, and Portugal, the transnational dimension of memorial practices has received comparatively little attention. By bringing together research on monuments, patrons, artists, materials, and practices across these different territories, the workshop aims to explore the networks, transfers, and processes of exchange that shaped early-modern funerary culture across the Western Mediterranean.

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Scientific Organization: Anna Magnago Lampugnani, Tanja Michalsky, Ivo Raband

_{Image: Giovanni da Nola, Detail Tomb Monument for Jacopo Sanseverino, Cappella Sanseverino, 1538-1553, SS. Severino e Sossio, Naples © Bibliotheca Hertziana - Istituto Max Planck per la storia dell’arte / Archivio dell’Arte - Luciano e Marco Pedicini}