Thursday Seminar

2018 Sep 27

Thursday Seminar "Saving the soul of Giovanni di Bicci de’ Medici: function and design in the Old Sacristy"

6:00pm to 7:30pm

Location: 

Gould Hall, I Tatti
sagrestia vecchia veduta
 

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?

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2018 May 31

Thursday Seminar “Point, Ground, Figure, Field”

6:00pm

Location: 

Gould Hall, Villa I Tatti
Simone Martini and Lippo Memmi - The annunciation and two saints
 

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”

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)”

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