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2018 May 30

Vicino un Chiaro e Cristallino Fonte

6:00pm
Location:
Myron and Sheila GiImore Limonaia

Performers: Ensemble Voces Suaves... Read more about Vicino un Chiaro e Cristallino Fonte
2018 May 10

2018 Mongan Prize Laureate Lecture. Miguel Falomir, "Berenson and Titian"

6:00pm
Location:
Gould Hall, Villa I Tatti

Professor Miguel Falomir, Director of the Museo Nacional del Prado, will be presented with the I Tatti Mongan Prize on May 10, 2018, when he will deliver his Laureate Lecture "Berenson and Titian". ... Read more about 2018 Mongan Prize Laureate Lecture. Miguel Falomir, "Berenson and Titian"
2018 May 03

Thursday Seminar “Economic Institutions and Networks between the Mediterranean and the Atlantic. The Genoese Trading Diaspora (ca. 1450-1530)”

6:00pm
Location:
Gould Hall, Villa I Tatti

The transatlantic slave trade and the plantation complex are well-studied subjects, but scholars have rightly pointed out that we do not clearly understand the earliest phases, at the beginning of the sixteenth century. ... Read more about Thursday Seminar “Economic Institutions and Networks between the Mediterranean and the Atlantic. The Genoese Trading Diaspora (ca. 1450-1530)”
2018 Apr 19

Sacrifice and Conversion between Europe and the New World

(All day)
Location:
Gould Hall, I Tatti

From Tupinambá anthropophagi to ‘bloodthirsty Aztecs’ or ‘child-killing Incas’, American (human) sacrifices flooded the European imagination in the sixteenth century. In Europe, these images interacted with a heated debate about salvation, the Eucharist, and the role of sacrifice within Christianity.... Read more about Sacrifice and Conversion between Europe and the New World
2018 Apr 12

Thursday Seminar “The Amerasian extension in the European imaginary, 1492-1700”

6:00pm
Location:
Gould Hall, I Tatti

Asian and American (and sometimes African) toponyms, peoples, terrain, flora, fauna, atmospheres, and cultural productions mingled in the European consciousness long after Columbus, and even as the Pacific was being regularly traversed by European galleons.... Read more about Thursday Seminar “The Amerasian extension in the European imaginary, 1492-1700”
2018 Apr 05

Thursday Seminar “In the Archives of the Inquisition: The Case of Vittoria Colonna”

6:00pm
Location:
Gould Hall

In 1982, a priest working on the records from the Galileo trial in the archive of the Roman Inquisition accidentally landed upon a file devoted to Vittoria Colonna, the Marchesa of Pescara.... Read more about Thursday Seminar “In the Archives of the Inquisition: The Case of Vittoria Colonna”
2018 Mar 29

Thursday Seminar “Titian and the Skies of Tomorrow”

6:00pm
Location:
Gould Hall

Renaissance doctors, philosophers, theologians, poets, and musicians understood that all sensible experiences of time and space were linked, to a certain extent, to the cosmic order by a universal harmony, an astral-magic rhythm that influenced everything from the rotation of the planets down to the musicality of the pulse.... Read more about Thursday Seminar “Titian and the Skies of Tomorrow”
2018 Mar 01

Bruno Zevi. A joint lecture by Caspar Pearson and Roberto Dulio

6:00pm
Location:
Palazzo Grifoni Budini Gattai, Via dei Servi 51, 50122 Firenze

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2018 Feb 15

Thursday Seminar "The Artist and the Police: Decameron 8.3"

6:00pm
Location:
Gould Hall

Boccaccio’s tale of Calandrino and the heliotrope is justly celebrated as a masterful reflection on art and illusion. In this seminar, Justin Steinberg will explore the political dimension of this reflection.... Read more about Thursday Seminar "The Artist and the Police: Decameron 8.3"
2018 Jan 18

Thursday Seminar “Bramante and the untidy unfolding of the ‘High Renaissance’”

6:00pm
Location:
Gould Hall

Bramante is widely credited for having pioneered a new and assertively antique architectural style in Rome at almost the very start of the sixteenth century, as is supposedly demonstrated by his Tempietto which is almost universally agreed to date from around 1502.... Read more about Thursday Seminar “Bramante and the untidy unfolding of the ‘High Renaissance’”