In-between Spaces in Some Italian Paintings, c.1500

Resarch Seminar

Public event without registration
Data: 01.12.2026
Ora: 14:00 - 16:00
Relatrice: Bronwen Wilson
Luogo: Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rome
Contatto: mara.freiberg@biblhertz.it

In-between Spaces in Some Italian Paintings, c.1500

Geological forms and rocky environments assert their own visual, spatial, and material agency in paintings by Filippo Lippi, Filippino Lippi, Sandro Botticelli, and Vittore Carpaccio. Situating these lithic landscapes at the intersection of local quarries, the built environment, early geophysics, and literary and philosophical thought, this talk posits that these transitional topographies are dynamic protagonists—in-between spaces—that embody the strenuous labor of both extraction and invisible, on-going processes of spiritual and material conversion.

Quarries, together with the temporal dimensions of stone they adduce, provide insights into artistic engagement with the genesis of worlds.

Bronwen Wilson teaches at UCLA, where she is Edward W. Carter Chair in European Art and the Director of the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library and Center for 17th- and 18th-Century Studies. Her research and teaching explore the artistic and urban cultures of early modern Europe (1300-1700), with a focus on space, print, portraiture, landscape, and transcultural, material, and ecological approaches. International research collaborations include Making Publics, Early Modern Conversions, Making Worlds, and Making Green Worlds. The title of her current book project is Otherworldly Natures: Lithic Formations, In-between Spaces, and Early Modern Italian Art.

Scientific Organization: Diogo Rodrigues de Barros and Elisabetta Rattalino