61. Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America

Numerous staff, PhD students and scholars of the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz - Max-Planck-Institut will present their research at the Sixty-First Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America, taking place from 26-28 March 2015 in Berlin. We invite you to discuss with us!

    

Some of the events where you will find us:

26 March 2015, 8:30 - 10:00 h

Hegelplatz, Dorotheenstrasse 24/1, Second Floor, 1.205

Panel Productive Paragons I
Organizer: Joris van Gastel, Universität Hamburg
Chair: Markus Rath, Universität Basel / Yannis Hadjinicolaou, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Christopher James Nygren, University of Pittsburgh
The Paragone beyond Competition: Painting and the Stakes of Representation in Renaissance Italy

Barbara Stoltz, Philipps Universität Marburg and Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz - Max-Planck-Institut
Printmaking: Printed Drawing, Painting, Sculpture?

Marisa Mandabach, Harvard University
Collaboration, Artifice, and Human-Animal Hybridity in the Head of Medusa and Prometheus Bound by Rubens and Snyders

   

26 March 2015, 10:15 - 11:45 h
Hegelplatz, Dorotheenstrasse 24/1, Fifth Floor, 1.501

Panel Delineating Fiorentinità in Seventeenth-Century Art
Organizer: Estelle Lingo, University of Washington, Seattle
Chair: Alessandro Nova, Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut

Eva Struhal, Université Laval
Problematic Objects: Ideas on the Role of Art in Seventeenth-Century Florence

Heiko Damm, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
Frescoes on Tile in Florence: Filippino Lippi to Giovanni da San Giovanni

Estelle Lingo, University of Washington, Seattle
Francesco Mochi and Sculptural Fiorentinità

    

26 March 2015, 13:15 - 14:45 h
Hegelplatz, Dorotheenstrasse 24/1, Fifth Floor, 1.501
 
Panel From Avant-Garde to Retrograde? Florentine Art around 1600
Organizer: Fabian Jonietz, Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut / Douglas N. Dow, Kansas State University
Chair: Eva Struhal, Université Laval
 
Elena Fumagalli, Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia
The Court Painter in Florence from Francesco I to Cosimo II: A Role in Trasformation
 
Henk T. Van Veen, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen
The Painting of Francesco Furini (1603–46) and Its Rootedness in Florentine Artistic Tradition
 
Alessandra Buccheri, Fine Arts University of Palermo
Investigating the Origins of Baroque Cloud Compositions: The Significant Contribution of the Florentine Theatrical Tradition

    

26 March 2015, 13:15 - 14:45 h
Hegelplatz, Dorotheenstrasse 24/1, Fifth Floor, 1.506

Panel Architecture in Rome
Organizer: Ann E. Moyer, University of Pennsylvania
Chair: Matthew Knox Averett, Creighton University

Alexis R. Culotta, University of Washington
Baldassarre Peruzzi and the Architecture of Painting

Wolfgang Loseries, Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut
Baldassarre Peruzzi’s Invention of the Cross: A Project for Santa Croce in Gerusalemme?

Angi L. Elsea Bourgeois, Mississippi State University 
Echoes of the Past: Alberto Zucchi’s Unpublished Roma Domenicana and Santa Maria sopra Minerva, Rome

    

26 March 2015, 13:15 - 14:45 h
Hegelplatz, Dorotheenstrasse 24/1, Fifth Floor, 1.503

Panel Framing Strategies and Scenic Integrations in the Early Modern Period I
Organizer: Ioana Jimborean, Universität Basel / Henry Kaap, Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut
Chair: Martin Gaier, Universität Basel

Brigitte Sölch, Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut
When Architecture Becomes Frame: Formations of Early Modern Fora

Ioana Jimborean, Universität Basel
A Gesture of Display: The "Loggia of Appearance" at the Courts of Quattrocento Italy

Florian Horsthemke, Universität der Künste Berlin
Appropriating the City: Framing Strategies in Venetian Architecture, ca. 1700

    

26 March 2015, 15:00 - 16:30 h
Hegelplatz, Dorotheenstrasse 24/1, Fifth Floor, 1.503

Panel Framing Strategies and Scenic Integrations in the Early Modern Period II
Organizer: Ioana Jimborean, Universität Basel / Henry Kaap, Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut und Freie Universität Berlin
Chair: Samuel Vitali, Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut

Damien Bril, Institut National d'Histoire de l'Art, Paris, and University of Burgundy
A Tableau Vivant of Majesty: Framing Female Authority in the Seventeenth-Century Louvre

Moritz Lampe, Università degli Studi di Firenze
Framing the Artist: Architectural Arches in Sixteenth-Century Painting

Sören Fischer, Sakralmuseum St. Annen, Kamenz
A Window with a View: The Topos of the Framed Vista in Illusionistic Landscape Painting

    

26 March 2015, 15:00 – 16:30 h
Hegelplatz, Dorotheenstrasse 24/1, First Floor, 1.102

Panel Memorializing the Middle and Upper Classes III: Social Mobility in Bologna and Florence
Organizer: Grit Heidemann, Universität der Künste Berlin / Claudia Jentzsch, Universität der Künste Berlin
Chair: Anne Leader, Italian Art Society

Ruth Wolff, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut
Tombs and the Imago doctoris in Cathedra in Northern Italy (1300–80)

Damien Cerutti, Université de Lausanne 
A Reconsideration of Bardi Patronage between Santa Croce and Santa Maria Novella, Florence

Katharine Stahlbuhk, Universität Hamburg and Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut
Memorializing the Individual in Renaissance Florence: The Terra Verde Cycle in Palazzo Rucellai

    

26 March 2015, 16:45 - 18:15 h
Hegelplatz, Dorotheenstrasse 24/1, Fifth Floor, 1.503

Panel Framing Strategies and Scenic Integrations in the Early Modern Period III
Organizer: Ioana Jimborean, Universität Basel / Henry Kaap, Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut and Freie Universität Berlin
Chair: Wolf-Dietrich Löhr, Freie Universität Berlin and Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut

Francesca Marzullo, Columbia University and Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut
The Figure in the Threshold: Images above Doorways and Illusionistic Framing Devices in Italian Painting

Jessica N. Richardson, Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut
Suspended and Extended Visualities: Framing the Miraculous Image

Isabella Augart, Universität Hamburg
Framing Pictures: Altarpieces with Embedded Venerated Images in Early Modern Italy

    

27 March 2015, 8:30 - 10:00 h
Hegelplatz, Dorotheenstrasse 24/1, Third Floor, 1.308

Panel Other Venice(s): Alternative Notions of Venetian Art I: Side Steps in the Venetian Periphery?
Organizer: Christopher Nygren, University of Pittsburgh / Giorgio Tagliaferro, University of Warwick
Chair: Stephen J. Campbell, John Hopkins University

Elizabeth Carroll Consavari, San Jose State University
Interpreting Bartolomeo Montagna as Artist from the Periphery

Kirk Nickel, University of Pennsylvania
Titian’s Presence in the Venetian West

Henry Kaap, Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut and Freie Universität Berlin
Venice upon a Hill: The Double Function of Lorenzo Lotto’s Martinengo Altarpiece (1513–16) in Bergamo

   

27 March 2015, 08:30 – 10:00 h
Hegelplatz, Dorotheenstrasse 24/1, Third Floor, 1.307
 
Panel Afterlives of the Reliquary: Reinventions of Object Cults in Post-Reformation Arts
Organizer: Christiane Hille, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München and Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut
Chair: Jeanette Kohl, University of California, Riverside 
Respondent: Gerhard Wolf, Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut

Barbara Baert, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Afterlives and the Enclosed Gardens: A Case Study on Mixed Media, Remnant Art, Récyclage, and Gender

Emily Davenport Guerry, Oxford University
Reinventing the Crucifixion: The Crown of Thorns and a New Royal Cult in France
 
Victoria Jackson, Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham
Reliquaries Re-Formed and Reinvented as Tableware Vessels in Post-Reformation Europe

Cynthia Hahn, CUNY, Hunter College
Patterns Persist: Relics and Reliquaries after the Middle Ages

    

27 March 2015, 10:15 - 11:45 h
Hegelplatz, Dorotheenstrasse 24/1, Fifth Floor, 1.505

Panel The Ideal-City Paintings in Urbino, Baltimore, Berlin: Architecture, Geometry, and the Reappraisal of Antiquity
Organizer: Joaneath A. Spicer, The Walters Art Museum
Chair: Hannah Baader, Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut

Joaneath A. Spicer, The Walters Art Museum
Brunelleschi's Lost Painting of the Florentine Baptistery as a Prototype of the "Ideal City" Paintings

Filippo Camerota, Museo Galileo
Revisiting the Relationship of Piero della Francesca to the "Ideal City" Paintings

Denise Allen, The Frick Collection
Giovanni Bellini’s Landscapes and the Art of Perspective

     

27 March 2015, 10:15 - 11:45 h
Hegelplatz, Dorotheenstrasse 24/1, First Floor, 1.102

Panel How to Look: Guiding the Experience of the Sixteenth-Century Viewer II
Organizer: Katherine M. Bentz, Saint Anselm College / Elena M. Calvillo, University of Richmond
Chair: Katherine M. Bentz, Saint Anselm College

Elena M. Calvillo, University of Richmond 
The Artist Agent and the Cultural Brokerage of Sixteenth-Century Italian Art

Marika A. Leino, Oxford Brookes University 
Viewing Collectors’ Portraits

Francesca Borgo, Harvard University and Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut
Battle Viewing in the Sala Grande in Florence

    

28 March 2015, 08:45 - 10:15 h
Hegelplatz, Dorotheenstrasse 24/3, Sixth Floor, 1.601
 
Panel Natural History of the Line I
Organizer: Robert Felfe, Universität Hamburg
Chair: Maurice Sass, Universität Hamburg
 
Maria Faricius Hansen, Københavns Universitet
Defining Art: The Grotesque and the Linearity of Ornament as Artistic Self-Representation

Christiane Hille, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München and Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut
Disegno: Choreographing the Line into Invention
 
Hans Bloemsma, Unversiteit Utrecht
Interpreting the Line in Early Renaissance Painting

28 March 2015, 8:45 - 10:15 h
Hegelplatz, Dorotheenstrasse 24/1, Fifth Floor, 1.506

Panel The Power of Images: In Honor of David A. Freedberg I
Organizer: Claudia Swan, Northwestern University
Chair: Klaus Krüger, Freie Universität Berlin
Respondent: Claudia Swan, Northwestern University

Margaret Koerner, Independent Scholar
William Kentridge: Long, Long, Long Live the (Mother) Land

Carolin Behrmann, Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz - Max-Planck-Institut
Black/White: Objectification and the Nomos of Images

David Bindman, University College London
The Black Page: Symbol and Ornament

   

28 March 2015, 14:00 - 15:30 h
Hegelplatz, Dorotheenstrasse 24/3, Ground Floor, 3.018

Panel The Shape of Space: Empires of Architectures, Words, Landscapes: Approaches in Eco–Art History I
Organizer: Gerhard Wolf, Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut
Chair: Hannah Baader, Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut
Respondent: Giancarlo Casale, McGill University

Çigdem Kafescioglu, Bogazici University
Istanbul in Ottoman Court Narratives: Practices of Urban Space and Shifts in Visual Order

Alessandra Russo, Columbia University
Archiving Architectures: Iberian Expansion and Spatial Inventions

    

28 March 2015, 14:00 - 15:30 h, 
Hauptgebäude, Unter den Linden 6, Second Floor, 3103 (Hegel-Saal)

Panel The Material Culture of the Mines in Early Modern Europe I
Organizer: Monica Azzolini, University of Edinburgh / Lisa M.S. Skogh, Victoria and Albert Museum / Tina Asmussen, MPI für Wissenschaftsgeschichte / Henrike Haug TU Berlin and Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut
Chair: Pamela H. Smith, Columbia University

Tina Asmussen, MPI für Wissenschaftsgeschichte
Wild Men in Braunschweig: The Entanglements of Mining, Minting, and Sovereignty between the Harz and the Erzgebirge

Thomas Morel, TU Berlin
Underground Mathematics: Manuscripts and Knowledge Circulation in the German Mining States

Lisa M. S. Skogh, Victoria and Albert Museum
The Mine as a Subterranean Kunstkammer

Jörg Richter, Universität Bern
The King, His Officers, the Entrepreneurs, and the Hewers: Artistic Patronage at the Kuttenberg Mining District around 1500

    

28 March 2015, 15:45 - 17:15 h
Hegelplatz, Dorotheenstrasse 24/3, Ground Floor, 3.018

Panel The Shape of Space: Empires of Architectures, Words, Landscapes: Approaches in Eco–Art History II
Organizer: Gerhard Wolf, Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut
Chair: Hannah Baader, Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut
Respondent: Gerhard Wolf, Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut

Priyani Roy Choudhury, Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut
Reflective Dialogues: The Ordering of Space in an Early Mughal City

Lihong Liu, National Gallery of Art, CASVA
Trees under Heaven: Greeneries and World Making in Ming China

    

28 March 2015, 15.45 - 17.15 h, 
Hauptgebäude, Unter den Linden 6, Second Floor, 3103 (Hegel-Saal)

Panel The Material Culture of the Mines in Early Modern Europe II
Organizer: Monica Azzolini, University of Edinburgh / Lisa M.S. Skogh, Victoria and Albert Museum / Tina Asmussen, MPI für Wissenschaftsgeschichte / Henrike Haug, TU Berlin and Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut
Chair: Pamela O. Long, Independent Scholar

Marta Ajmar-Wollheim, Victoria and Albert Museum
Digging in the Mud: Sourcing, Understanding, and Deploying Earth in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Italy

Joanna Kostylo, British School at Rome
Italian Entrepreneurs and Salt Mining in Sixteenth-Century Poland-Lithuania

Henrike Haug, TU Berlin and Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut
In the Garden of Eden? Mineral Lore and Preaching in the Erzgebirge

28 March 2015,  15:45 - 17:15 h
Hauptgebäude, Unter den Linden 6, First Floor, 2094

Panel Moving Objects, Shifting Spaces II: Transatlantic Migration of Artifacts and Its Effect on Conceptions of Space
Organizer: Peter Mack, University of Warwick / Johannes von Müller, Universität Basel
Chair: Carolin Behrmann, Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz - Max-Planck-Institut

Linda Baez-Rubi, Warburg Institute
Traveling Objects and Configuration of Images across the Seas

Emilie Ana Carreón Blaine, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de México
An Ixiptla Named Image

Bernhard Klein, University of Kent
Mapping Africans in the Seventeenth Century

    

28 March 2015, 15:45 - 17:15 h, 
Hegelplatz, Dorotheenstrasse 24/1, Fifth Floor, 1.501

Panel Architecture in Italy
Organizer: Ann E. Moyer, University of Pennsylvania
Chair: Panos Leventis, Drury University

Areli Marina, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
The New Baptisteries of Renaissance Italy: New Light on Old Buildings

Joel Luthor Penning, Northwestern University
Watchers on the Walls: Gatekeepers in Renaissance Italy

Sarah G. Duncan, Independent Scholar
Magnificence and the Italian Renaissance Court Stable

Pavla Langer, Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut and Universität Bonn
With a View to a Saint: Bernardino of Siena’s Mausoleum at L’Aquila

   

Please come and join us at our booth in the Hauptgebäude (main building) of the Humboldt University of Berlin, where we will present recent publications and projects of the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz. Learn more about the activities of our Institute!