The visual and cultural depiction of the relationship between man and monkey is the focus of this seminar. In particular, Andrea Rizzi will explore a specific representation of monkeys in early modern visual images that has received relatively...

During this seminar, Emanuele Lugli will explore the overlooked relationship of fashion and cartography in constructing notions of territoriality.... Read more about Thursday Seminar - “The Fabrication of Borders: Tailoring, Triangulation, Territoriality in Italy and Beyond, 1340-1760” & short presentations from term Fellows

In the Renaissance and Baroque, preparatory terracotta models were used by artists to develop their sculptural ideas. Harvard Art Museums Conservator Tony Sigel will discuss his close-up technical examination and documentation of Bernini and...

... Read more about Seminar: Michael Cole and Diletta Gamberini, "Vincenzo Danti's Deceits"

As pieces designed for vocal performance, secular songs such as French chansons and Italian madrigals record vernacular accents, dialects, and sounds often excluded in literary and scientific texts. 

... Read more about Seminar: Kate van Orden, "Music as a Sonic Record: Sixteenth-Century Vernaculars in Perspective"

... Read more about Estelle Lingo, "Sculpture’s Shame: Medium, Style, and History at the End of the Renaissance"

... Read more about Pamela O. Long, "Engineering, Cartography, and the Culture of Knowledge in Late Sixteenth-Century Rome"

... Read more about Joško Belamarić, "The Interior of Split Cathedral (former mausoleum of Diocletian) during the Renaissance"

... Read more about Jennifer Sliwka and Donal Cooper, "Site and context: Botticini's 'Assumption' and the lost church of San Pier Maggiore, Florence"

... Read more about Paolo Galluzzi, "History of Science and the Digital Humanities. Projects of the Museo Galileo in Florence"

... Read more about Ramie Targoff, “Untying Love’s Knots: Transforming Eros in the Sonnets of Vittoria Colonna”

... Read more about Carlos Plaza, Migrazioni artistiche nel Rinascimento: Jacopo Indaco tra Firenze, Roma e la Spagna