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8
October
2009
at 4.00 pm
Thursday
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Shoptalk - Christiane Klapisch-Zuber
Fra testi, immagini e realtà vissute: i due ladroni della
Crocifissione
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13
October
2009
at 4.00 pm
Tuesday
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Shoptalk - Serena Ferente
Bartolus on Political Passions |
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14 - 15 -16 October
2009
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
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Conference
Bernard Berenson at Fifty
A
symposium commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of Berenson’s death
on October 6, 1959, is an exploration of the intellectual world in which BB
lived, with a focus on his relationships with scholars such as William
James, G.B. Cavalcaselle, Jean-Paul Richter, Arthur Kingsley Porter, Kenneth
Clark, Paul Sachs, and A. Hyatt Mayor, as well as with creative artists such
as Matisse, Hemingway, and African-American dancer Katherine Dunham.
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16
October
2009
at 6.00 pm
Friday |
Concert
"Musica nova"
from Adriano Willaert to Gavin Bryars
Singer Pur
(Early music at I Tatti, XV)
Portrait of Adriano Willaert, From Musica nova (1559)
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20
October
2009
at 4.00 pm
Tuesday |
Shoptalk -
Lorenzo Calvelli
The Roman Stones of Venice |
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3
November
2009
at 4.00 pm
Tuesday |
Shoptalk - Christine Shaw
“Libertà” and “protection” during the Italian Wars |
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5
November
2009
at 4.00 pm
Thursday |
Shoptalk - Michael Cuthbert
Credo Scabioso: Italian Sacred Music in the Age of Plague and Scism |
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10
November
2009
at 4.00 pm
Tuesday |
Shoptalk - Amy
Bloch
Lorenzo Ghiberti’s “Gates of Paradise” and the Renaissance Biblical
Imaginary |
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16
November
2009
at 4.00 pm
Monday |
Shoptalk -
Marc Schachter
Metamorphoses of the Golden Ass: Apuleius in Word and Image |
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17
November
2009
at 2.30 pm
Tuesday
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mini-Symposium
The Other Counter Reformation: Ambiguity and
Invention in Cinquecento Art and Literature
According to traditional historiographies, the period of the Counter
Reformation in Italy saw the gradual shutting down of avenues for cultural
innovation and the arrival of a period of ‘mental stagnation’. We are
exploring other forms of cultural expression and other modes of
interpretation in order to uncover the innovative, the ambiguous and the
downright strange.
Papers by:
‘Rewriting Trent’: Innovation or Stagnation in Florentine Counter
Reformation Poetry?
Abigail Brundin
Raphael’s Ostrich: Allegory and Ambiguity in Cinquecento Rome and
Florence Una
Roman D’Elia |
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27
November
2009
at 4.00 pm
Friday |
Shoptalk - Chris Carlsmith
To Live and To Study: Colleges in Early Modern Italy |
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1
December
2009
at 6.00 pm
Tuesday
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Public Lecture
Claus-Peter Haase
Former
Director, Museum für Islamische Kunst, Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin
Honorarprofessor,
Kunstgeschichtliches
Institut der FU Berlin
Djem Sultan,
Son of
Mehmed the Conqueror: The First
Turkish European?
Djem Sultan, the son of
Mehmed the Conqueror, was in many ways a tragic figure. Educated in politics,
warfare, Persian literature, and Arabic theology, as a young man he was
apparently influenced by European attitudes and ideas. After his brother
Bayezid succeeded to the throne in 1481–even though Djem had better claim to
the title–Djem proposed a division of the Empire, claiming the Asian part (with
the old capital of Bursa), and leaving the European part (with Istanbul) to
his brother. When this proposal of joint rule was denied, Djem took the
remarkable step of seeking political support for his bid to become Sultan
from the king of
 France.
Instead of rallying to Djem’s aid, however, the European powers held him in
captivity for fourteen years,
first in France, and later in papal custody at Castel Sant’Angelo and later
end at Gaeta. Finally, in 1495, as Charles V of France reached Rome, the
Ottoman prince was poisoned. The life of this remarkable figure is
extraordinarily well documented. Turkish spies reported regularly on Djem’s
captivity to Sultan Bajazet, who paid the large sums required by the Pope
for maintaining the princely prisoner. In France Djem inspired a vast
amorous literature, and in Italy his colorful exoticism fascinated painters.
He himself wrote longing letters to his brother and his family, as well as
epics and other poems, and never renounced his Islamic faith. It appears
that his farsighted view of relations between the Christian and Islamic
worlds had no lasting political impact. But is Djem Sultan a symbol for the
ongoing political conflict that prevailed between the royal families of
Europe and the Ottoman Sultan during the Early Modern period? And does the
climate of mistrust between Christians and Muslims during the Renaissance
lie at the root of modern relations between Europe and the world of Islam?
Prince Djem, brother and rival of the
Ottoman Sultan, arrives in Rhodes 1482
Bibliothèque National, Paris, MS lat. 6067
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3
December
2009
at 4.00 pm
Thursday |
Shoptalk -
Anne Dunlop
Materials, the Imagined World, and Trecento Artistic Change
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9
December
2009
at 2.30 pm
Wednesday
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Image and Meaning in
Sixteenth-Century Italy: the Congrega dei Rozzi of Siena and Timoteo
Viti of Urbino
Today's papers reclaim a disregarded group of playwrights and a
neglected artist. By focusing on the emblem devised by the
founding members of the Congrega dei Rozzi and on Timoteo Viti's
altarpieces and biography, Claudia Chierichini and Bob La France
will present new interpretations for the work of Renaissance
deuteragonists, whose contributions testify to the plurality of
artistic and intellectual endeavours undertaken during the
sixteenth century.
Shoptalk -
Claudia Chierichini
"Rude mechanicals" in Sixteenth-century Siena: the Congrega dei Rozzi,
1531-1552
Shoptalk -
Robert G. La France
Timoteo Viti: Artist, Courtier, Musician
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10
December
2009
at 4.00 pm
Thursday |
Shoptalk -
Daniel Bornstein
Civic Christianity in Renaissance Cortona |
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15
December
2009
at 4.00 pm
Tuesday |
Shoptalk -
Francesca Fiorani
Leonardo’s Shadows: Images of Knowledge in Renaissance Art and Culture
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16
December
2009
at 4.00 pm
Wednesday |
Shoptalk -
Carlo Taviani
Biografie dell’esilio tra Urbino, Roma e Genova: Ottaviano e Federico
Fregoso
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2
February
2010
at 4.00 pm
Tuesday |
Shoptalk -
Donal Cooper
Images of St. Francis in Tuscany and Umbria, c.
1340-c. 1420
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9
February
2010
at 4.00 pm
Tuesday |
Shoptalk -
Claudia Bolgia
The “Long” Trecento: Rome without the Popes (c. 1305-1420)
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11 March
2010
4:00 pm
Thursday
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Shoptalk -
Martin Kemp
Simone da
Dapertutta and other Fictions.
An Irreverent
Look at Italian Visual Culture |
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16 March
2010
at 4.00 pm
Tuesday
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Shoptalk -
Babette Bohn
Federico
Barocci: Reinventing Disegno in Post-Tridentine Urbino |
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23 March
2010
4:00 pm
Tuesday
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Discussion with
Martin Kemp
Multispectral
Scanning
and the new
Leonardo portrait |
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13, 15, 20 April 2010
6:00 pm |
The
Bernard Berenson Lectures
Caroline Elam
Firenze bella:
The Renaissance City View
Tuesday, 13 April
Urban
Encomia
Thursday, 15 April
Surveying the City
Tuesday, 20 April
Word
and Image
Piero del
Massaio
Bird’s eye
view of Florence, c.1475-80
(Paris,
Bibliothèque Nationale) |
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11 May
2010
at 4.00 pm
Tuesday
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Shoptalk -
Ann
Moyer
The Victory of Radagasius over Charlemagne: Studies of the Florentine
Past in Sixteenth-Century Florence |
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25 May
2010
at 4.00 pm
Tuesday
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Shoptalk -
Kate
Lowe
Africa in the news in Renaissance Italy |
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10 June 2010
6:00 pm
Thursday |
Concert
“Il
giardino di Armida”
Ensemble Elyma
directed by
Gabriel Garrido
(Early Music at I Tatti, XVI)
La Gerusalemme
di Torquato Tasso
figurata da
Bernardo Castello
(Genova, 1617) |
