2019 Apr 24 Seminar: From Eye to Mouth: on Edible Images in the Renaissance Location: Gould Hall, I Tatti 6:00pm to 7:30pm Speaker: Jérémie Koering (Centre André Chastel) There was a time when some images were not just looked at, but eaten as well. Produced to be swallowed, they were consumed by the mouth rather than by the eye.... Read more about Seminar: From Eye to Mouth: on Edible Images in the Renaissance
2019 Apr 11 Thursday Seminar: Alberti’s Autobiographical Writings Location: Gould Hall, I Tatti 6:00pm to 7:30pm Speaker: Martin McLaughlin (I Tatti / Magdalen College Oxford) When we think of Alberti in visual terms, what first comes to mind is usually the bronze self-portrait (c.1435),... Read more about Thursday Seminar: Alberti’s Autobiographical Writings
2019 Apr 04 Thursday Seminar: The three masks of Biagio Rossetti, "muratore ferrarese" (1444-1516) Location: Gould Hall, I Tatti 6:00pm to 7:30pm Speaker: Marco Folin (University of Genoa) Since Bruno Zevi’s classic book on Biagio Rossetti architetto ferrarese (Turin 1960), the figure of Biagio Rossetti... Read more about Thursday Seminar: The three masks of Biagio Rossetti, "muratore ferrarese" (1444-1516)
2019 Mar 14 Thursday Seminar: Bronzino's "Cosimo de Medici as Orpheus" revisited Location: Gould Hall, I Tatti 6:00pm to 7:30pm Speaker: Philippe Canguilhem (I Tatti / University of Toulouse) Bronzino’s famous portrait of the young Cosimo, now in Philadelphia, has been the subject of much commentary regarding its meaning... Read more about Thursday Seminar: Bronzino's "Cosimo de Medici as Orpheus" revisited
2019 Feb 21 Thursday Seminar: "Porcelain: Another Kind of Classical Education" Location: Gould Hall, I Tatti 6:00pm to 7:30pm Speaker: Suzanne Marchand (I Tatti / Louisiana State University) For a very long time, I have been wondering how it was that Europeans—and not just scholarly Europeans--learned to ‘see’ classical antiquity in the modern period.... Read more about Thursday Seminar: "Porcelain: Another Kind of Classical Education"
2019 Feb 14 A Scholar’s Library is a Scholars’ Trap: Ramon Sibiuda’s “Science of Man”, Nicolas of Cusa’s Library, and the Materiality of (Non)Reception Location: Gould Hall, I Tatti 6:00pm to 7:30pm Speaker: Thomas Gruber (I Tatti) To many researchers, a scholar's library is a godsend, not least when it once belonged to such a versatile and productive thinker as Nicholas of Cusa... Read more about A Scholar’s Library is a Scholars’ Trap: Ramon Sibiuda’s “Science of Man”, Nicolas of Cusa’s Library, and the Materiality of (Non)Reception
2019 Feb 07 Thursday Seminar: The Designs of Nature Location: Gould Hall, I Tatti 6:00pm to 7:30pm Speaker: Rebecca Zorach (Northwestern University / I Tatti) In Ulisse Aldrovandi’s Musaeum metallicum (written 1580s, published posthumously... Read more about Thursday Seminar: The Designs of Nature
2018 Dec 06 Thursday Seminar: “Florence as New Jerusalem. The Rite of Lo Scoppio del Carro and the Regular Miracle of the Holy Fire in Jerusalem” Location: Gould Hall, I Tatti 6:00pm to 7:30pm Speaker: Alexei Lidov (I Tatti / Moscow State University)The Renaissance city of Florence, known throughout the world as a capital of artistic production,... Read more about Thursday Seminar: “Florence as New Jerusalem. The Rite of Lo Scoppio del Carro and the Regular Miracle of the Holy Fire in Jerusalem”
2018 Oct 25 Thursday Seminar: "Franz Boas’ Primitive Art between Morphology and Evolution Theory" Location: Gould Hall, I Tatti 6:00pm to 7:30pm At first sight, readers of Franz Boas’ Primitive Art (1927) did not need to worry about theories.... Read more about Thursday Seminar: "Franz Boas’ Primitive Art between Morphology and Evolution Theory"
2018 Oct 18 Thursday Seminar "Magic Realism in 1920s Italy and Quattrocento painting" Location: Gould Hall, I Tatti 6:00pm to 7:30pm “Magical Realism” is an oxymoron coined by the German critic Franz Roh in 1925 to describe artworks that endowed realism with an uncanny effect. ... Read more about Thursday Seminar "Magic Realism in 1920s Italy and Quattrocento painting"
