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Please join us for the opening events of the academic year, where the new I Tatti Fellows give informal presentations of their research projects. These presentations are open to the public.
9:30 - 10:30
Christopher Lakey (Johns Hopkins University):
Persistent Materialities: The Use of Gold Leaf in Painting, c. 1300-1600
10:30 - 10:45 Coffee
10:45 - 11:45
Diana Presciutti (University of Essex):
The Saint as Social Worker: Visual Hagiography and Social Problems in Renaissance Italy
11:45 - 12:45
Jessica Maier (Mount Holyoke College):
Contested Places: Cartography, Conflict, and the Visual Arts in Early Modern Europe
13:00 - 14:15 Lunch
14:30 - 15:30
Niall Atkinson (University of Chicago):
Getting Lost in the Italian Renaissance: Traveling and the Geographies of Disorientation
15:30 - 16:30
Elizabeth Petcu (University of Edinburgh):
Nature and Imitation in Early Modern Architecture
16:30 - 17:00 Tea