Seminar: Techniques of Describing the World as a Series of Proximate Landscapes in Early Modern Travel Narratives

Speaker: Niall Atkinson (University of Chicago / I Tatti)

Niall Atkinson’s research and teaching focus on the art and architecture of the Italian Renaissance with a particular focus on the experience of artistic environments and urban spaces in late medieval and Renaissance Italy. These fields of inquiry have led him into investigations of the soundscapes of Renaissance Florence and the role of the acoustic environment in the meaning of built space and the construction of social communities.

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Image: Pinturicchio, The Departure of Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini for the Council of Basel (detail), Piccolomini Library, Siena Cathedral, 1502–08

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