As if revisiting the religion’s primordial decision in favor of an exoteric, rather than esoteric, identity, the Italian painters of the fourteenth century populated Christian subjects and scenes with semi-outsiders:... Read more about Thursday Seminar "Margin and center in early Renaissance painting"

Giovanni di Bicci de’ Medici (c.1360-1429) – one of the richest and most eminent Florentines of his day – was buried in the Old Sacristy of San Lorenzo in Florence. But why did he choose a sacristy as his burial place?

Please join us for the opening events of the academic year, where the new I Tatti Fellows give informal presentations of their research projects. These presentations are open to the public. 

Please join us for the opening events of the academic year, where the new I Tatti Fellows give informal presentations of their research projects. These presentations are open to the public. 

Please join us for the opening events of the academic year, where the new I Tatti Fellows give informal presentations of their research projects. These presentations are open to the public.

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

Between the 16th and the 19th century, a new awareness and new uses of the nighttime slowly but unmistakably spread through different parts of the world, whereby new regimes of temporality redefined the spheres of work and leisure, of activity and repose.... Read more about Embattled and Conquered? The History of the Nighttime in the Early Modern World

We owe the Italian Renaissance picture more than the ideal human figure.  Experiments in figuration, whether they involve contour or sfumato, cannot exist without ground, here understood in three senses of the word: first, the preparation of a given support (such as a gesso ground on panel); second, the plane on which figures stand; and third, the field in and against which figuration occurs.... Read more about Thursday Seminar “Point, Ground, Figure, Field”

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"