Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz

4A Lab Seminar

Jung-Hwa Kim:
Superior Trees: Creating a Forest in the First Korean Arboretum, 1922–1945

28 June 2021, 4:00pm

Georgia Project Lecture Series

Maria Lidova:
‘Written on the tablets of the heart’: The Art of Icon Painting by a Georgian Monk at Sinai

22 June 2021, 3:00pm

Georgia Project Lecture Series

Angela Wheeler:
Design Across the Iron Curtain: Modern Architecture in Soviet Georgia

29 June 2021, 3:00pm

Open Access

Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz

Articles of the journal available online via ART-Dok

Publication

Reading Objects in the Contact Zone

Edited by Eva-Maria Troelenberg, Kerstin Schankweiler, and Anna Sophia Messner

Video Archive

Visit the Vimeo channel of the KHI for a selection of video recordings of lectures, workshops, and seminars from the past events of the last years.

Open Access

Digital Collections

In times of closed research libraries, we would like to give you an overview of some important sources of freely accessible digital collections of both books and journals.

12 July 2021

Call for Papers/Applications

Call for Papers:
Against Identity?
Discourses of Art History and Visual Culture in Italy

Doctoral and Early Career Researchers Conference
Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut
9–10 December 2021
Deadline: 12 July 2021

All Call for Papers/Applications

01 July 2021

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Studentische Hilfskraft (w/m/d)

Das Kunsthistorische Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut – sucht für die Dauer von jeweils 6 Monaten, beginnend ab dem 1. September 2021, zukünftig für die Bibliothek eine Studentische Hilfskraft (w/m/d) in Teilzeit (19 Stunden pro Woche).

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Library and Photo Library

For registered users the Library and Photo Library are accessible in restricted form. For the Library (Via Giusti 44) online reservations are required:
https://reserve.khi.fi.it

For access to the Photo Library (and the Ya section of the Library) in Palazzo Grifoni please send an email to:
fototeca@khi.fi.it

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Research topics

Ethics and Architecture

The spectrum of questions posed by the relation between ethics and architecture is broad. It spans all the way from the reception of Vitruvius and Aristotle in the Trecento, to reflections on the moral dimension of architecture in the eighteenth century, right down to current theories and practices of building.

Research areas

Languages of Art History

How did conventions of art historical writing come into being across various linguistic traditions, and how have they survived and developed out of inter-linguistic exchange?

Piazza e monumento

Der Platz gilt seit der Antike als Paradigma der Stadt und des Öffentlichen, dessen politische und soziale Bedeutung sich bis in die Gegenwart fortsch...

Rinascimento conteso

'Rinascimento conteso' aims to construct a dialogue with challenges to the historiographical paradigm of a supposedly triumphant Renaissance, responding to sound criticisms of the term’s elitist connotations.

Vasaris Welten und die deutsche kommentierte Ausgabe der 'Vite' in den beiden Editionen von 1550 und 1568

Das Werk und Denken Giorgio Vasaris bildet für die europäische Kunstwissenschaft bis heute das wichtigste Referenzmodell und einen konstanten methodol...

Ecology and Aesthetics. Environmental Approaches in Art History (e/ae)

Ecological and aesthetic theories are intertwined in multiple ways. The project opens a dialogue with archeology, anthropology and history of science concerned with the "anthropocene", rethinking the nature/culture divide in a transcultural perspective, including notions of heritage and sustainability, creation and consumption.

Aesthetics, Art, and Architecture in the Caucasus (Georgia Project)

While most debates regarding intercultural dynamics between Christianity, Islam and Judaism are concerned with the Mediterranean, this project is concentrating on the art and architecture of South Caucasus, an under these premises hardly studied region comprising Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan as well as Georgian and Armenian heritage in Eastern Turkey.

Pompeii Arch&Lab

Eine natur- und geisteswissenschaftliche Untersuchung der Restaurierungs- und Musealisierungsgeschichte Pompejis verbunden mit dem Ziel der Entwicklung innovativer, nachhaltiger Restaurierungsmaterialien und Verfahren.

Storia dell'arte e catastrofi: L'italia sismica (sta-sis)

Un progetto transdisciplinare incentrato sul ruolo della storia dell’arte negli scenari post-catastrofe, con un’attenzione particolare al paesaggio e al patrimonio culturale italiani.

The Art of Containment

The Art of Containment is a recently started long-term collaborative research and exhibition project. It is concerned with all kinds of vessels and containers, their materiality, shape and decoration, their functions and agency, their biographies and itineraries. The project is the next step in the research focus on concepts and theories, relations and constellations of image and object (Ding/Bild).

Sacred Landscapes:
Between Materiality, Transportability and Narration (Jerusalem Project)

Sacred Landscapes, in particular deserts and mountains are liminal spaces and also places of aesthetic production or response. Their dimensions are material, narrative and iconic, and they are connected to monumental sacred sites. The long-term Jerusalem project is concerned with all these aspects and analyses the ways in which they are intertwined.

Research areas

Transregional Art Histories. Actors, Spaces, Ecologies from the 13th Century to the Present

Research in this unit focuses on the history of art and of aesthetic practices in transregional and ecological perspectives. With a strong interest in the materiality of art and of artistic practices, it investigates works of art in relation to place, space, and environment.

Art, Dialogue, History: Sources and Practice Discourses of Italian Art from a Historical Perspective

Understanding the complex objects of art history in their material and technical disposition and functionality requires deeper insight into the histor...

Convivencia: Iberian to Global Dynamics (500–1750)

Using the term CONVIVENCIA with a question mark, the project investigates the cooperative and conflictual interactions of different cultural and religious communities in the Iberian "world" from the sixth to the eighteenth centuries, also including comparative studies in other areas.

Il Progetto EUPLOOS

Il Progetto Euploos intende promuovere un dialogo internazionale tra la comunità dei ricercatori e degli studiosi offrendo uno strumento di ricerca in...

CENOBIUM – A Project for the Multimedia Representation of Romanesque Cloister Capitals in the Mediterranean Region

The aim of the CENOBIUM project is to facilitate, by means of high-resolution digital photography, video, 3D scanning and an interactive web interface, the analysis of the complex dynamics of artistic exchange in the 12th and 13th century.

Photography as Instrument and Medium of Art History

Historic photographic collections created with the purpose of art-historical documentation are also documents of the methods and the history of the discipline.

Photo Archives

'Photo Archives' is an open series of international scholarly activities dedicated to the interaction between photographic archives, photography and academic disciplines.

The Edification of the Soul: Leon Battista Alberti’s Dialogue Della tranquillità dell’animo

This project is dedicated to the first German translation and commentary of Leon Battista Alberti’s dialogue Profugiorum ab aerumna libri III, also kn...

Call for Papers/Applications

Call for Papers: Against Identity? Discourses of Art History and Visual Culture in Italy

Work with us

Studentische Hilfskraft (w/m/d)

Library and Photo Library

Research topics

Ethics and Architecture

Languages of Art History

Piazza e monumento

Rinascimento conteso

Vasaris Welten und die deutsche kommentierte Ausgabe der 'Vite' in den beiden Editionen von 1550 und 1568

Ecology and Aesthetics. Environmental Approaches in Art History (e/ae)

Aesthetics, Art, and Architecture in the Caucasus (Georgia Project)

Pompeii Arch&Lab

Storia dell'arte e catastrofi: L'italia sismica (sta-sis)

The Art of Containment

Sacred Landscapes: Between Materiality, Transportability and Narration (Jerusalem Project)

Transregional Art Histories. Actors, Spaces, Ecologies from the 13th Century to the Present

Art, Dialogue, History: Sources and Practice Discourses of Italian Art from a Historical Perspective

Convivencia: Iberian to Global Dynamics (500–1750)

Il Progetto EUPLOOS

CENOBIUM – A Project for the Multimedia Representation of Romanesque Cloister Capitals in the Mediterranean Region

Photography as Instrument and Medium of Art History

Photo Archives

The Edification of the Soul: Leon Battista Alberti’s Dialogue Della tranquillità dell’animo

Retouching – Image manipulation in photography

THE MÉTIERS OF THE PHOTOGRAPHER Roberto Sigismondi

Covid-19 Gallery

"Trésors d'art à la portée de tous" – Photographers' catalogues

Neo Rauch – Works from 2008 to 2019

Natalia Goncharova. A Woman of the Avant-garde with Gauguin, Matisse and Picasso

Encounters: Migrants * Photographers * Artists * Activists

Antony Gormley. ESSERE

Photography and Catastrophe Antonio Di Cecco in dialogue with the collections of the Photo Library

Architecture in Photography

Work of the hand or work of the mind? Art and (in-)activity

Spagna e Italia in dialogo nell'Europa del Cinquecento

Unboxing Photographs: Working in the Photo Archive

Ramboux Between Art and Art History

Ambrogio Lorenzetti

Exchanging Gazes Between China and Europe 1669–1907

Giuliano da Sangallo's Surface Architecture

Into the Archive On the Materiality of Photographs

Francesco Clemente Fiori d’inverno a New York

The Salerno ivories – re-photographed

Stories of the Sea in Images

Photo-Objects and "Applied Arts" in the Photothek

Romualdo Moscioni Apulia Monumentale

Visualizing the Invisible in Michelangelo's Drawings at Casa Buonarroti

Mschatta im Fokus Das jordanische Wüstenschloss in historischen Fotografien

The Nomos of Images. Manifestations of the Law in Picture Atlases and Photo Archives

The Florentine Renaissance The City as the Crucible of Culture

Florence circa 1900. The Photographic View

Florenz!

An Art Dealer's Photographs. The collection of Elia Volpi

Translatio Nummorum Die zwölf ersten römischen Caesaren in der Renaissance

Size Matters. Scale and Measure in Photography

Il Dolce Potere delle Corde Orfeo, Apollo, Arione e Davide nella grafica tra Quattro e Cinquecento

MS Wissenschaft – Science Center 2012

Bartolomeo Ammannati

Francesco Clemente I Tarocchi

Research horizons and new technologies The Euploos project for the Collection of the Gabinetto Disegni e Stampe degli Uffizi

Musiche di legni in riva d'Arno dai Canottieri a Ponte Vecchio

Gustav Ludwig. The photographic bequest

The Vasari Century Florentine Draughtsmen of the Cinquecento

El Vuelo de las Imágenes Arte plumario en México y Europa

Drawings from the Uffizi - rivisited

Sculptures from the Boboli Gardens

The Future of Tradition - The Tradition of Future 100 Years after the Exhibition 'Masterpices of Muhammedan Art' in Munich

Palazzo Grifoni Budini Gattai

Da Jacopo della Quercia a Donatello Le Arti a Siena nel primo Rinascimento

Natural artifizio - artifiziosa natura Grottos of the Early Modern Age in Italy

Sigilli

The Cloister of Monreale

Cimelia Photographica

Rothko / Giotto Tactility in Painting

Casa Vasari in Florence

Georgia - Medieval Monuments

Views of Florence from the print collection of the Photothek

ZANG TUMB TUUM… 100 works of Futurism

Call for Papers:
Against Identity?
Discourses of Art History and Visual Culture in Italy

Sacred Landscapes:
Between Materiality, Transportability and Narration (Jerusalem Project)

Photography and Catastrophe
Antonio Di Cecco in dialogue with the collections of the Photo Library

Ramboux
Between Art and Art History

Exchanging Gazes
Between China and Europe 1669–1907

Into the Archive
On the Materiality of Photographs

Francesco Clemente
Fiori d’inverno a New York

Romualdo Moscioni
Apulia Monumentale

Mschatta im Fokus
Das jordanische Wüstenschloss in historischen Fotografien

The Florentine Renaissance
The City as the Crucible of Culture

Translatio Nummorum
Die zwölf ersten römischen Caesaren in der Renaissance

Il Dolce Potere delle Corde
Orfeo, Apollo, Arione e Davide nella grafica tra Quattro e Cinquecento

Francesco Clemente
I Tarocchi

Research horizons and new technologies
The Euploos project for the Collection of the Gabinetto Disegni e Stampe degli Uffizi

The Vasari Century
Florentine Draughtsmen of the Cinquecento

El Vuelo de las Imágenes
Arte plumario en México y Europa

The Future of Tradition - The Tradition of Future
100 Years after the Exhibition 'Masterpices of Muhammedan Art' in Munich

ZANG TUMB TUUM…
100 works of Futurism

Contrappunti II
Arte contemporanea alla Casa Zuccari Pfadfinder - Sentieri Susanne Weirich

Casa Zuccari
An artist's house in Florence