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5 February
2008
at 4.30 pm
Tuesday |
Shoptalk Carol Lansing
Noble Romans:
Court Culture in Thirteenth-century Lazio |
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7 February
2008
at 4.30 pm
Thursday |
Shoptalk Paul Barolsky
Ovid’s
Metamorphoses and the History of Art |
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19 February
2008
at 4.30 pm
Tuesday |
Shoptalk Edward D.
English
Magnates and a
Civil Society: Siena, 1240-1420 |
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28 February
2008
at 5.30 pm
Thursday |
Public Lecture
Margaret Haines,
Opera di Santa Maria del Fiore
Myth and
Management in the Construction of Brunelleschi's Cupola
The online edition of the
documentation of the Florentine cathedral Opera during the
planning and realization of Brunelleschi’s cupola provides new
perspectives on this extraordinary monument. In a first general
presentation of this powerful new tool, Haines weighs the
archival evidence against traditional accounts of the
construction history. |
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3 March
2008
at 4.30 pm
Monday |
Shoptalk Lodi Nauta
Lorenzo Valla
and the Philosophical Significance of Quattrocento Humanism |
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6 March
2008
at 5.30 pm
Thursday |
Public Lecture
Antony Molho,
European University Institute
Hans Baron's
Crisis
The intellectual migration
of the 1930s has often been celebrated for bringing to the
United States hundreds of German Jewish scholars, who
transformed the fabric of American academic life and
distinguished themselves in the process. The case of Hans Baron
rather complicates this largely optimistic picture. Based on
mostly unknown documents in German and American archives, my
presentation will suggest that Baron's loss of his German
academic positions in 1933 provoked in him a deep personal and
intellectual crisis. Naturally, for his magnum opus, published
in the United States in 1955, he drew on his philological
studies of the 1920s and early '30s. Equally, The Crisis of the
Early Italian Renaissance, was deeply coloured by Baron's sense
of loss and of his attempt to make intellectual sense of the
political and cultural changes that had overtaken his own world. |
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13 March
2008
at 4.30 pm
Thursday |
Shoptalk
Gabriele Pedullà
Classicismo e
politica. La disputa tra Bracciolini e Guarino su Scipione e
Cesare |
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18 March
2008
at 4.30 pm
Tuesday |
Shoptalk Diane Bodart
Riflessi e
bagliori nella pittura italiana del Rinascimento |
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20 March
2008
at 5.30 pm
Thursday |
Public Lecture
Louise Rice,
New York University
Cardinal
Rapaccioli and the Turnip-Sellers of Rome: A Political Satire on
the War of Castro (1641-44)
 This lecture presents a
newly attributed satirical drawing by the Florentine artist and
soldier Baccio del Bianco (1604-1656) and attempts to restore
comic life to the image--to reactivate its trenchant mixture of
sophistication and vulgarity--by reconstructing the historical
and cultural conditions that gave rise to it. |
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15
April
2008
at 4.00 pm
Tuesday |
Shoptalk Gerry Milligan
The Praise of
Women and Manly Militarism in the Cinquecento |
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17 April
2008
at 4.30 pm
Thursday |
Shoptalk Cynthia
Klestinec
Renaissance
Bodies |
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23 April
2008
at 4.30 pm
Wednesday |
Shoptalk
Valeria Cafà
On the
circulation of drawings in the XVIth century: Let's start with
the S.IV.7 Sketchbook |
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29 April
2008
at 4.30 pm
Tuesday |
Shoptalk Peter Stacey
Renaissance Rage |
|
6 May
2008
at 4.30 pm
Tuesday |
Shoptalk Jérémie Barthas
Machiavelli, The
Prince, chapter 16: La liberalità e il Monte |
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12
May
2008
at 4.00 pm
Monday |
Shoptalk
Prof.
Stanislao Mossakowski
La Cappella
del re Sigismundo I (1515-1533). Artisti toscani al servizio del
monarca polacco |
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14 May
2008
at 4.30 pm
Wednesday |
Shoptalk
Martin
Stefanik
Metalli dalla
Slovacchia quale oggetto d´interesse
degli imprenditori italiani e toscani nel ´300 |
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15 May
2008
at 5.30 pm
Thursday |
Public Lecture
Carl
Strehlke,
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Slavery and the
Early Renaissance Art World
Slavery was widespread in
fifteenth-century Europe, but little is known about artists who
were slaves, or who owned slaves. The career of a Catalan
painter who used slave labor tells us much about the mechanics
of slavery in the art world, and raises questions about artist
workshops elsewhere including Florence.
15th-century Valencian ceiling tile
showing a
slave ship. Location unknown |
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22,
27, 29 May
2008
at
5.30 pm |
The
Bernard Berenson Lectures
Charles Dempsey,
The Johns Hopkins University
Renaissance and Renovatio:
The Importance of Vernacular Culture in Earlier
Renaissance Art
22 May: French Courtly Culture and the art of Simone
Martini;
27 May: Classical and Vernacular Cultures in the
Paintings of Botticelli
29 May: Vernacular Religious Drama and the Florentine
Sibyls
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5 June
2008
at 5.00 pm
Thursday |
Concert
Via Toledo
Marco Beasley Pino
De Vittorio
Accordone
Direttore: Guido Morini
(Early Music at I Tatti, XII)
Tarantula and the musical
antidote to its poison, the tarantella.
From
Magnes, sive De Arte Magnetica (1643) |
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10 June
2008
at 4.00 pm
Tuesday |
Shoptalk
Maddalena
Spagnolo
Beyond Art
Criticism: Literary Mockery and Political Dissent in 16th
Century Florence |
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12-13 June
2008 |
International Conference
 
Between
Two Worlds
Jointly sponsored by
the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz
12
June: Villa I Tatti
13 June:
Kunsthistorisches Institut
The Rainbow, from the Codex Sahagun, vol. II,
book VII, fol. 12r.
Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, cod.
Medici Palatino 219
program
(pdf) |
