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In 2016-2017, I Tatti introduced its new Mellon Fellowships in the Digital Humanities. In concurrence with this, the institute will host a workshop on the topic “Digital Art History: Mapping Medieval and Renaissance Objects and Networks” on May 25.... Read more about Digital Art History: Mapping Medieval and Renaissance Objects and Networks

This interdisciplinary conference examines the circulation of music and musicians throughout the Mediterranean diaspora. It concentrates on music as a migratory frontrunner and privileges displacement as its critical lens with the specific aim of crystalizing new theoretical approaches to mobility.... Read more about Conference: Music in the Mediterranean Diaspora

L'argomento del intervento è la presentazione di una serie di oggetti realizzati in materiali poveri (cera, paglia, stucco ) cercando di ripercorrerne la storia e la provenienza.... Read more about Thursday Seminar: “Artigianato virtuosistico: opere d’arte nascoste create nei conventi italiani e francesi.”

In collaboration with the Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi, Villa I Tatti will host a discussion between Prof. Victor...

In 1616, Monteverdi told Alessandro Striggio that he couldn’t imitate winds because they are not human. “Ariadne moved us because she was a woman and similarly Orpheus because he was a man.” But what if Orpheus was not a man driven by his own internal passions and creative instincts but instead was an automaton—an inanimate machine with spontaneous motion and sound creation.... Read more about Thursday Seminar: What if Orfeo was an Automaton?