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The Aesthetics of Marble: from Late Antiquity to the Present
International Conference

 Although numerous studies, conferences, exhibitions and publications have explored the origin, the extraction, the transportation, and the use of marble and other veined stones, relatively little has been done on the resulting compositions, on their meanings, their effect and reception, in short on the aesthetics of marble. Yet the recourse to the natural patterns of stone in architecture and painting is of great interest for the history and theory of the visual arts, as it mediates between nature and artifice, iconicity and aniconism, as well as between material, structure, ornament, and iconography.

The three-day conference 'The Aesthetics of Marble' aims at mapping this emerging field of research. It intends to take a culturally and chronologically ample view of the phenomenon and wishes to bring together a broad array of approaches from the history of art, architectural history, archaeology, material and conservation studies, anthropology, psychology, etc. Case studies are especially welcome and should help to test the heuristic efficacy of close observation and formal analysis, image theory, typology, reception aesthetics and history, or other methods.


  

Date
May 27th, 2010 to May 29th, 2010

Location
Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz - Max-Planck-Institut
Palazzo Grifoni - Seminarraum
Via dei Servi 51
50122 Firenze
Contact
Eva Mußotter M.A.
Tel.: +39 055 24911-67
Fax: +39 055 24911-66
E-mail: mussotter@khi.fi.it
Program
http://www.khi.fi.it/ pdf/c20100527.pdf
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