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14 September
2011
Wednesday |
Elizabeth
Cropper will receive the I Tatti Mongan Prize in a ceremony in the
Gould Hall of the Brice Loggiato. The Prize, created in honor of
Agnes and Elizabeth Mongan, was founded by a gift from Melvin Seiden
in 1986. It is given to a scholar of Italian Renaissance art,
French art, drawings, and connoisseurship who carries into a new
generation the qualities of imaginative scholarship, personal
generosity and devotion to the institutions of art history that were
exemplified in their own generation by Agnes and Elizabeth Mongan.
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12-14 October
2011 |
International conference
The Medici in the Fifteenth Century: Signori of
Florence?, organized by Robert Black and
John Law (see
here for the preliminary program). This will be held on 12th
October (at the Monash
University
Prato Centre)
and on 13th and 14th October (at Villa I
Tatti). This interdisciplinary conference will consider to what
extent the fifteenth-century Medici conformed to the signorial
pattern of North and Central Italy and to
what extent their regime represented continuity with communal and
republican traditions. The two leading British historians of
Renaissance Italy – Philip Jones (d. 2006) and Nicolai Rubinstein
(d. 2002) – engaged in an unspoken dialogue regarding the status of
the Medici in fifteenth-century Florence: the
former was inclined to assimilate Florence
and the Medici to the despotic paradigm, whereas the latter tended
to look for continuity with the republican and communal past. There
has been surprisingly little published scholarly debate on this
important question, particularly from a comparative perspective. All
speakers at the conference will compare the fifteenth-century Medici
with other Italian regimes or with earlier Florentine regimes. This
event constitutes part of the 10th anniversary celebrations of the
Monash
University
Centre
in Prato and the 50th anniversary celebrations
of the The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies
in Florence.
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