Speaker: Patricia Falguières (I Tatti / EHESS) ... Read more about Seminar: Aristotle and the Duplicity of Nature. Proposals for an Ontological Turn of Art History

Speaker: Mauro Mussolin (Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz)... Read more about Thursday Seminar: L'universo della carta tra Medioevo e Rinascimento. Itinerari, pratiche e riuso

Speaker: Christopher Heuer (I Tatti / University of Rochester)... Read more about Thursday Seminar: Arctic Ink

Speaker: Marco Folin  (University of Genoa)... Read more about Thursday Seminar: Le tre maschere di Biagio Rossetti, "muratore ferrarese" (1444-1516)

Speaker: Rebecca Zorach (Northwestern University / I Tatti)... Read more about Thursday Seminar: The Designs of Nature

Speaker: Martin McLaughlin (I Tatti / Magdalen College Oxford)... Read more about Thursday Seminar: Alberti’s Autobiographical Writings

Speaker: Philippe Canguilhem (I Tatti / University of Toulouse)... Read more about Thursday Seminar: Bronzino's "Cosimo de Medici as Orpheus" revisited

Speaker: Suzanne Marchand (I Tatti / Louisiana State University)... Read more about Thursday Seminar: "Porcelain: Another Kind of Classical Education"

Speaker: Jérémie Koering (Centre André Chastel)... Read more about Seminar: From Eye to Mouth: on Edible Images in the Renaissance

Speaker: Thomas Gruber (I Tatti)... 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

Speaker: Alexei Lidov (I Tatti / Moscow State University)... 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”

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"

“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"

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?