Gould Hall, I Tatti (Nov 8), Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz (Nov 9)
(All day)
In commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Robert Klein (1918-2018), this conference will bring together scholars to reconsider the published and unpublished works of one of the most erudite and inventive art historians of the twentieth century. ... Read more about Robert Klein, Art Historian and Philosopher
Palazzo Grifoni Budini Gattai, Via dei Servi 51, 50122 Firenze
6:00pm
Faced with the task of reconstruction following the Second World War, architects interpreted the Renaissance in a variety of ways. Sometimes seen as a model of ‘rebirth,’ the Renaissance could also appear as the chief repository of the defunct canons from which modern architects had to escape. Bruno Zevi continually negotiated such oppositions in his historical and critical writings, as he sought to interrogate the meaning of the Renaissance for the modern world.... Read more about Bruno Zevi. A joint lecture by Caspar Pearson and Roberto Dulio
Istituto degli Innocenti, Sala Brunelleschi Piazza della Santissima Annunziata 50121 Firenze
6:00pm
The Renaissance is a historiographical fable of the nineteenth century. Twentieth-century art history was shaped by various forms of dissatisfaction with the patterns and priorities it imposed. Few scholars, however, grasped the unresolved tension within the concept of Renaissance between an affirmative unrest (rebirth, a beginning) and the promise of closure through integration (the classic, an endpoint).... Read more about “Gombrich on the Pleasures and Perils of Circular Thinking”