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Archaeology in the Drawings of Leonardo, Michelangelo, and Raphael

Keynote lecture - part of: The Paper Project Workshop "Touched/Retouched: Paper across Time (1400–1800)"
Carmen C. Bambach, curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, will give the opening keynote lecture for “Touched/Retouched: Paper across Time (1400–1800),” a workshop made possible with support from Getty through The Paper Project initiative. [di più]
In this one-day event, fellows share insights and findings from the research projects they are undertaking at the Bibliotheca Hertizana. [di più]

Varieties of Modification of the Print

Keynote lecture - part of: The Paper Project Workshop "Touched/Retouched: Paper across Time (1400–1800)"
Whereas drawings only begin to change after they have been drawn, prints can change before, during, and after printing. [di più]
Recent discussions in aesthetics and art history, literature, and visual studies have seen a renewed interest in questions of form and formalism. Whether in connection with algorithmic thinking, computer vision, and artificial intelligence, or with transcultural comparisons, revised narratives of modernism, re-conceptualisations of formlessness, and cognitive reflections on connoisseurship, form and formalism have regained currency in current discourses on a transhistorical and transdisciplinary level. It has become clear that an “archaeology of knowledge” about these crucial notions is indispensable in teasing out their critical potential and in productive application of what has also been termed “new formalism” or “post-formalism”. [di più]

After the Middle Ages (Reception, Remnants, Revival): Architecture and Medievalism

Conference
“After the Middle Ages” implies both a temporal horizon, extending from the early modern period to the present day and beyond, and responses to the Middle Ages (medievalism). The conference aims to navigate the historical interactions between these responses and architecture, fostering critical discussions surrounding an “architectural history of medievalism”. [di più]
L’Istituto Svizzero ha il piacere di ospitare la conferenza annuale dell’Unione Internazionale degli Istituti di Archeologia, Storia e Storia dell’Arte a Roma. Il tema di quest’anno, Ifigenia a Pompei, con la partecipazione della professoressa Francesca Ghedini, è proposto dall’Institutum Romanum Finlandiae.L’Unione Internazionale, raccoglie trentotto istituti di ricerca, italiani e non italiani, appartenenti a diciannove nazioni diverse, europee ed extra-europee, tutti operanti negli ambiti disciplinari indicati. [di più]

Sensorial Encounters: Haptic and Non-Visual Access in Art

Workshop
Sensorial Encounters: Haptic and Non-Visual Access in Art is an exploratory workshop that challenges the primacy of visual perception and terminology in art and art history. Inspired by the methodological insights of authors such as Georgina Kleege, Elizabeth Bearden and Amanda Cachia, among others, this workshop que stions the traditional conflation of sight with knowledge. [di più]
This workshop is to explore the relation between relics and architecture. First and foremost, cases of relics physically built into the architectural fabric of churches and chapels will be addressed, such as columns whose capitals have been equipped with relics, triumphal arches or the apse’s semi-dome with relic depositories, “secret chambers” or even foundations and walls fortified by holy material. [di più]

Literary and Cultural Circulation Between Italy and Brazil

Workshop
As part of the 2024 celebrations marking the 150th anniversary of Italian emigration to Brazil, this workshop will explore the artistic and cultural ties between the two nations from the turn of the 20th century to the present. [di più]
Pentimenti, ripassi, ritocchi caratterizzano tre versanti teoricamente e concettualmente diversificati dell’atto grafico autografo. [di più]
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