Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz

Lecture

Andreas Mayer
The Physiognomist of the Body: Balzac’s Pedestrian Observations

19 March 2026, 11:00am

Lecture

Irina Mykhailova
The Italian Renaissance in the Early Soviet Era

Between Political Appropriation and Intellectual Connoisseurship

12 March 2026, 5:00pm

Call for Applications

Lise Meitner Research Group

Tenure track positions at Max Planck Institutes

Deadline: 15 April 2026

Call for Applications

Predoctoral and Postdoctoral Fellows (M/F/D)

4A_Lab: Art Histories, Archaeologies, Anthropologies, Aesthetics Fellowships 2026/2029

Deadline: 10 March 2026

The Institute

The Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz is a research institute dedicated to the histories of art and architecture in a transcultural and global perspective, with a focus on Italy, Europe and the Mediterranean.

Further information

10 March 2026

Work with us

Predoctoral and Postdoctoral Fellows (M/F/D)
4A_Lab: Art Histories, Archaeologies, Anthropologies, Aesthetics
Fellowships 2026/2029

The Berlin-based research, fellowship, and mentoring program 4A_Lab invites excellent early career and mid-career scholars to apply for up to three predoctoral and three postdoctoral residential fellowships (6 to 36 months for predoctoral and 6 to 24 months for postdoctoral fellows).

All offers

Library and Photothek

The Library and the Photothek are open to users with a valid library card, Monday to Friday, from 9:00 am to 8:00 pm

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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

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.

The Southern Caucasus Regions: Heritage, Landscape and Narratives

The Southern Caucasus region (between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea) encompasses Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan, including territories located in...

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.

Vessels beyond Containment

Vessels beyond Containment is a long-term collaborative research project 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.

Iconologies and Iconospheres of the Sea, ca. 1200–1650, III: Liquid Materialities

The project investigates the interdependencies of art and nature and the production of knowledge in mainly Western, pre-modern worlds, by studying the...

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.

Ship Ex-Voto as Objects, Metaphors and Figures of Communality, from Antiquity to the Nineteenth Century

A canvas by the French artist Ulysse Butin, presented at the Salon in Paris in 1881, sentimentally evokes a maritime votive scenario showing a young l...

Research 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

Historically grown photographic archives such as the Photothek are not merely repositories of visual information, but complex epistemic infrastructures that reflect the conceptual and methodological developments of the discipline of art history.

Photo Archives

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

Ethico-Aesthetics of the Visual

The relationships between art, visuality, and ethics – and their ongoing historical transformations – are at the centre of the research group’s invest...

The City as Archive. Histories of Collecting and Archiving in and the Musealisation of Florence, Eighteenth Century to the Present

In November 1916 a spectacular auction took place in the city of New York, when the art dealer, collector and trained artist Elia Volpi (1858–1938) so...

Action ǀ Retraction: Czechoslovak Art and Philosophy in the International Context, 1945–1989

In view of the historical revisionism increasingly manifest in recent years within post-socialist countries and beyond, it is necessary to re-engage E...

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

This interdisciplinary project was dedicated to the first German translation of and commentary on Leon Battista Alberti’s dialogue Profugiorum ab aeru...

Change of Perspective: Art and Philosophy after Wittgenstein

In many of his writings the Austrian philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein draws parallels between his philosophical thinking and artistic modes of thought ...

Between Ethos and Excess? A Critique of the Sublime

The sublime is a hybrid concept and not easy to define. However, in current debates within the humanities, the sublime is increasingly described as a ...

Research areas

4A Laboratory: Art Histories, Archaeologies, Anthropologies, Aesthetics (2019–2023)

A cooperation of the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz and the Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz together with Humboldt University of Berlin and Forum Transregional Studien Berlin

4A Laboratory: Art Histories, Archaeologies, Anthropologies, Aesthetics

4A_Lab strives to create a dialogue between the disciplines of Art History, Archaeology, Anthropology/Ethnology, and Aesthetic Practices (4A), as well as other disciplines concerned with objects, practices, ecologies, and narratives (OPEN).

Digital Humanities Lab

The Digital Humanities Laboratory (DH Lab) is an interdisciplinary research center within the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz that focuses on in...

Materiality and (In-)Visibility: Women in Socialist and Post-Socialist Public Spaces

This trans-disciplinary project explores the multiple presences of women within socialist and post-socialist public spaces, focusing on their represen...

The Aesthetics of Marble

The project combines geo-aesthetics with an exploration of the metaphorical and transmaterial dimension of marble. The historical focus spans from Late Antiquity to the twenty-first century, looking at certain “marble moments”, mostly in the history of architecture, such as Roman and Byzantine wall decoration, early Omayyad art, Venetian medieval marble cladding, Roman baroque chapels, and the early twentieth century rethinking of wall decoration.

The Ligurian Complex. Case Studies in Ecology and Aesthetics

The project examines the complex overlaying and interpenetration of horizontal, vertical, or entangled spaces in Liguria, which are a challenge for an art historical investigation of both the production of landscape, terraforming, the interaction of human and non-human factors, and their aesthetics.

A Heritage Observatory of Socialist Worlds

This project focuses on the artistic, visual, and material culture of the former Soviet Union and Socialist worlds. Reflecting on the profoundly different realities of the States that were part of the Soviet sphere, as well as on the historiography and narratives, including ideological ones, that have affected issues of museography, restoration, protection and valorization, the project contributes to the understanding of architecture, art and heritage in the twentieth century.

Heritage, Art History, Tourism (H.A.T.)

H.A.T. was launched in 2019 as a platform for transdisciplinary conversations and research on the entanglement between heritage, art history, and tourism in a global horizon. The project is concerned with landscapes and territory, and with historical and contemporary dynamics of archaeology, architecture, site management and exploitation.

The Space of Childhood: The Adler Collection between Architecture, Art, History, Pedagogy and Creativity

This project studies a recent donation to the Biblioteca Nazionale Braidense in Milan: the unpublished correspondence of the architects Hedwig Feldmann and Hans Edward Adler, dating back to their stay in the USSR from 1930 to 1933, as well as their collection of 257 Soviet children’s books, most of which were published between the 1920s and 1933.

Practices of Imagination

Against the backdrop of contemporary debates over the creative potential and embodiment of cognitive processes, imagination, a concept that according ...

Research areas

Phenomenon ‘Colour’: Aesthetics – Epistemology – Politics

Colour and its perception is dependent on a variety of subjective predispositions and external physical conditions, and is decisively determined by so...

Photo-Objects, Cultural Displays, Archival Performance, and Rhetorics of Value

Archival gestures emerge as choreographic practices that reveal the active role of archivists within a supposedly neutral archival space. These performative presentations of photographic objects foster new forms of storytelling and enable imaginative, socially engaged approaches to archival materials.

Objects of Migration, Photo-Objects of Art History: Encounters in an Archive

Objects of Migration, Photo-Objects of Art History: Encounters in an Archive is a joint project by the Photothek and the artist Massimo Ricciardo. It links questions of the archive with burning issues of global migration, rhetorics of value and cultural heritage.

'La duplice polarità estetica e storica' - Method, Aesthetics and Function of Photographs in the Work of Restorer Barbara Schleicher

From 1960 to 2014 the internationally renowned restorer Barbara Schleicher (1937–2024) worked for the Soprintendenza, churches, and museums all over Tuscany.

Studies on the Photography, Laboratory, and Archival Practice of Anton Hautmann around 1860

Anton Hautmann, who was born in Munich in 1821, settled in Florence as a sculptor in 1849, where he was also active as a photographer from 1858 until his death in 1862. As one of the pioneers of stereoscopic photography, he is best known for his views of Florentine architecture and the cityscape.

On Alinari: Archive in Transition

Artist Armin Linke participates in a dialogue between theory and practice that examines and questions the process of institutionalizing photographic archives.

The Photographers’ Sales Catalogue Collection of the Photothek

Photographers’ Sales Catalogues are essential sources for the study of professional photographers, photographic ateliers as well as the photographs themselves since they contain important information concerning techniques, circulation, dating and attribution.

The King’s Finger, the Mermaid’s Body and the Power of the Sea

This project explores aspects of the transformative power of art by looking at a pair of medieval gloves. Among its particularly rare and precio...

Cultural Possessions

The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation is a complex legal structure that serves as the subject of this art historical and artistic investigat...

Empires, Environments, Objects

Max-Planck Partner Group 2022-2027
Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Lima – Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz

Research areas

Sounds of Melancholy

Die „Farben“ der Melancholie standen im elisabethanischen Zeitalter hoch im Kurs bei Philosophen und Dichtern, in der Kunst und in der Musik: 88 versc...

OSCOP – Observing South Caucasus’ Historical Landscape: An Open Photo Archive

The OSCOP project aims to critically recover the collection of photographs on the cultural heritage of the South Caucasus taken in the Soviet period by scholars working at the Centro Studi e Documentazione della Cultura Armena, founded in Milan by Adriano Alpago Novello in 1976.

Coded Objects

"Coded Objects" as method of refraction questions any assumptions of "neutral" technology or immaterial bureaucracy. Instead, the Lise Meitner Group examines how processes form values through objects—and how objects inform processes in societies.

Fragile Objects, Coded Knowledge (Architecture's Archives)

In architecture, the construction of disciplinary knowledge has been bound to the making of objects and their processes—be it plans, models, sketches or renderings—and their subsequent preservation: what the archive holds informs the histories that are written. In order to question its seemingly stable categories and include marginalized makers, the Lise Meitner Group’s project embraces fragile objects as a way to understand how disciplinary knowledge has been coded.

The Intelligence of Loss in the Archive

Archives are core sites of destruction, decay, and loss—whether through man-made causes or so-called natural disasters, much of humanity’s stored material has been, and continues to be, eradicated. But what if we treated forgetting not as a bug, but as a feature? While AI is hailed as a promise against loss, its own processes of erasure follow distinct patterns, revealing new ways of managing archival sustainability. This project approaches the intersection of archival disappearance and AI-driven erasure, reframing loss as a promise of other ways of knowing.

Hidden in Plain Sight

An Installation of Archive Objects. Oil Paintings, varying DIN formats. Files from the saai archive are stripped of their archival value: all information is removed, at least all textual one. Instead, what we see is their carrying material, namely, different paper formats. By translating archival files into a currency long dominated art historical discourse and production—the oil painting—questions of value become suddenly transposed, as well. Can we forego the primate of the values given and reconceive what we are looking for—which may be hidden in plain sight?

Nation of Norms: Designing German Worldviews One Object at a Time

Objects shape how one touches and views one’s world. This book traces histories where regulated objecst and standardized processes became instruments toward materializing a new worldview, and follows actors who attempted to reshape a German nation on paper, time and time again.

The Matter of Metadata: Archival Constructs between Index Cards and AI

If you were to browse through the complete catalog of the saai, one would find works by over 200 offices and architects—yet only a few of them are women, or involve practices and spaces created for or by marginalized groups or diverse actors. If metadata are understood as objects, as are their processes, infrastructures and consequences, then techniques for their virtual indexing can be learned from the human-made information from collected objects. Only by critically examining the archive's material techniques and value systems can blind spots be revealed—and addressed in AI applications.

Impact Research in Architecture and Urbanism

The DFG network “Impact Research in Architecture and Urbanism” meets regularly to develop and test methodological approaches, in addressing unclear concepts of impact at work in the built environment. In collaboration with the Lise Meitner Group “Coded Objects”, it develops experimental methods for studying the objects that shape our environments and brings together scattered knowledge across disciplines.

Trading Zones. Art and Philosophy in Eastern Europe since 1945

The project investigates the trading zone between artistic and aesthetic practice and philosophical ideas in Central and Eastern Europe. The relations...

Genealogies of Inactivity in Eastern Europe after 1945

The project explores various forms and practices of inaction in Eastern Europe, challenging the common assumption that inactivity is simply the absenc...

Humanism between Ideal and Ideology

Reflecting on the “human human being” in Karl Marx’s early writings (Ökonomisch-philosophische Manuskripte, 1844), and extending to present-day discou...

The Art of AI: Rethinking Notions of Creativity, Aesthetics, and Ethics

This project explores the aesthetic and ethical dimension of AI, seeking to unravel its intricate cultural fabric by re-evaluating and challenging con...

Rethinking the (Post-)Socialist Body: Art, Theory, and Politics

The body has long served as a central site of struggle in Eastern European politics and aesthetics. Shifting socio-political conditions – including th...

Visualising Drugs & Dyes. Art and Pharmacology in Medieval Worlds, 600–1400

Plants, among other things, have long shaped the material practice and imagination of pharmacy. Far more than animals or minerals, plants and their pr...

Decay, Persistence, Re-Possession. Ecologies of Cultural Heritage

The Max Planck Heritage Network is a collaboration of researchers from five Max Planck Institutes (MPI of Geoanthropology, Jena; MPI for the History o...

Modernisms and Organicism: Dialogues between Art, Philosophy and Science

At the beginning of the twentieth century, ‘life’ and ‘nature’ established themselves as all-encompassing categories. Organicism, particularly in its ...

The Bibliophilic Networks of Umberto Saba and the Serlupi Crescenzi Collection: Provenance, Collecting Practices, and the Circulation of Books between Trieste and Florence (1920–1950)

This project investigates the bibliophilic and commercial connections between the poet-bookseller Umberto Saba (1883–1957), the Florentine antiquarian...

Art Histories / Catastrophes / (Heritage) / Ecologies [AC(H)E]

The project considers art history in and of the Anthropocene, from a disciplinary and trans-disciplinary perspective. This includes a rethinking of it...

Connected Teams Practicing Transcultural Art Histories under the Conditions of Ecological Crises and Digital Transformations: India, Latin America, and Europe

Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut with 4A_Lab, Berlin; Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta; Departamento de Historia del Arte, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá

Calendar

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11 March 2026

Guided tour

Alisha Rankin and Julia Voss in conversation at Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin

Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin

12 March 2026

Lecture

Alisha Rankin: Picturing Expertise: Eye Surgeons, Images, and Innovation in Early Modern Germany

Berlin & online

12 March 2026

Lecture

Irina Mykhailova, The Italian Renaissance in the Early Soviet Era: Between Political Appropriation and Intellectual Connoisseurship

Florence & online

19 March 2026

Lecture

Andreas Mayer: The Physiognomist of the Body: Balzac’s Pedestrian Observations

Florence & online

23 March 2026

Lecture

Tim Ingold: Three Moments in the Birth of Marble: Ocean, Quarry, Workshop

Florence & online

26 March 2026

Lecture

Christoph Möllers: Why Freedom of the Arts?

Florence & online

12 – 13 May 2026

Symposium

Modes of Compression: Aesthetics, Operations, Formats

Villa I Tatti/ Palazzo Grifoni & online

Exhibitions

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Armin Linke:
The City as Archive. Florence

12 November 2025 – 15 February 2026

Photography * Research * Library

beginning on 16 June 2025

From Dante to Picasso. 12 works from the Biblioteca Serlupiana

03 – 17 June 2025

Conversazioni Serlupiane I - The exhibited works

07 March 2025

TRANSITIONS: Via Modena 13

beginning on 14 October 2024

Burma. L'arte di Sawangwongse Yawnghwe fra Birmania ed Europa.

21 September – 03 November 2024

Abolition Garden muSa Michelle Mattiuzzi Installation & Study Display

20 – 25 September 2024

Kunst der Freiheit – Experimentierfelder in Worten und Bildern

14 May – 15 September 2024

Hilde in Italia. Arte e vita nelle fotografie di Hilde Lotz-Bauer

17 January – 05 May 2024

Palazzo Buontalenti. A photographic campaign

beginning on 11 December 2023

"Most sincerely recommended to the Kunsthistorisches Institute for reading" Aby Warburg's donations from the foundation of the Institute until his death (1897-1929)

17 October 2023

Works by Alexander Kluge with Katharina Grosse and by Armin Linke in occasion of the exhibition "Aby Warburg, il Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz e il laboratorio delle immagini"

12 October – 10 December 2023

Aby Warburg, il Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz e il laboratorio delle immagini

12 October – 10 December 2023

Rooms with a View. Aby Warburg, Florence and the Laboratory of Images

19 September – 10 December 2023

The Hautmann Collection

beginning on 05 June 2023

Das Universum in Bildern – Wissen und Vorstellung in Geschichte und Gegenwart

09 May – 27 September 2023

Rhythm and Colour Foregrounding Music in Indian Album Paintings (16th-18th Centuries)

28 April – 25 June 2023

Nicolò Degiorgis 102 metri

29 March – 30 April 2023

Inspiration and Arrangement. The library – a place of research for 125 years

12 December 2022

"Mudejarismo" and "Moorish Revival"

beginning on 14 November 2022

IMAGE CAPITAL by Estelle Blaschke and Armin Linke: exhibition at Fondazione MAST

22 September 2022 – 08 January 2023

Figurations of Space. Alberti Prints in the Rare Books Section of the Library

25 April 2022

Archival Practices in the Photothek

beginning on 20 April 2022

In Noble Garb – Historical Paper Bindings in the Library

16 December 2021

ART HISTORY WITH A CAMERA. The photography of Ralph Lieberman

beginning on 29 November 2021

Joseph Beuys collection

20 July 2021

Retouching – Image manipulation in photography

beginning on 03 May 2021

THE MÉTIERS OF THE PHOTOGRAPHER Roberto Sigismondi

beginning on 21 September 2020

Covid-19 Gallery

beginning on 01 March 2020

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

beginning on 25 November 2019

Neo Rauch – Works from 2008 to 2019

17 October 2019 – 12 January 2020

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

28 September 2019 – 12 January 2020

Encounters: Migrants * Photographers * Artists * Activists

beginning on 11 June 2019

Antony Gormley. ESSERE

26 February – 26 May 2019

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

beginning on 20 November 2018

Architecture in Photography

beginning on 04 June 2018

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

15 May – 22 October 2018

Spagna e Italia in dialogo nell'Europa del Cinquecento

27 February – 27 May 2018

Unboxing Photographs: Working in the Photo Archive

16 February – 27 May 2018

Ramboux
Between Art and Art History

beginning on 20 November 2017

Ambrogio Lorenzetti

22 October 2017 – 08 April 2018

Exchanging Gazes
Between China and Europe 1669–1907

29 September 2017 – 07 January 2018

Giuliano da Sangallo's Surface Architecture

beginning on 12 June 2017

Into the Archive
On the Materiality of Photographs

beginning on 14 November 2016

Francesco Clemente
Fiori d’inverno a New York

29 June – 02 October 2016

The Salerno ivories – re-photographed

beginning on 13 June 2016

Stories of the Sea in Images

beginning on 08 May 2016

Photo-Objects and "Applied Arts" in the Photothek

beginning on 23 November 2015

Romualdo Moscioni
Apulia Monumentale

beginning on 04 May 2015

Visualizing the Invisible in Michelangelo's Drawings at Casa Buonarroti

beginning on 17 November 2014

Mschatta im Fokus
Das jordanische Wüstenschloss in historischen Fotografien

02 October 2014 – 30 July 2015

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

beginning on 05 May 2014

The Florentine Renaissance
The City as the Crucible of Culture

30 March – 03 June 2014

Florence circa 1900. The Photographic View

beginning on 25 November 2013

Florenz!

22 November 2013 – 09 March 2014

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

beginning on 22 April 2013

Translatio Nummorum
Die zwölf ersten römischen Caesaren in der Renaissance

23 November 2012 – 15 March 2013

Size Matters. Scale and Measure in Photography

beginning on 05 November 2012

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

21 June – 23 September 2012

MS Wissenschaft – Science Center 2012

18 June 2012

Bartolomeo Ammannati

beginning on 21 November 2011

Francesco Clemente
I Tarocchi

09 September – 06 November 2011

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

29 June – 28 August 2011

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

23 June – 15 July 2011

Gustav Ludwig. The photographic bequest

beginning on 20 June 2011

The Vasari Century
Florentine Draughtsmen of the Cinquecento

17 May – 21 August 2011

El Vuelo de las Imágenes
Arte plumario en México y Europa

24 March – 19 June 2011

Drawings from the Uffizi - rivisited

beginning on 14 February 2011

Sculptures from the Boboli Gardens

beginning on 18 October 2010

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

17 September 2010 – 09 January 2011

Palazzo Grifoni Budini Gattai

beginning on 15 June 2010

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

26 March – 11 July 2010

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

beginning on 22 February 2010

Sigilli

beginning on 19 October 2009

The Cloister of Monreale

beginning on 22 June 2009

Cimelia Photographica

beginning on 23 February 2009

Rothko / Giotto Tactility in Painting

06 February – 03 May 2009

Casa Vasari in Florence

beginning on 27 October 2008

Georgia - Medieval Monuments

beginning on 07 July 2008

Views of Florence from the print collection of the Photothek

beginning on 28 April 2008

ZANG TUMB TUUM…
100 works of Futurism

beginning on 28 January 2008

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

26 – 30 October 2007

Assisi 1997

beginning on 26 September 2007

Hilde Lotz-Bauer in Florence

beginning on 25 June 2007

Casa Zuccari
An artist's house in Florence

beginning on 02 April 2007

Contrappunti - Arte contemporanea alla Casa Zuccari Nel giardino delle Esperidi – Arance per HvM Erwin Wortelkamp

18 November – 10 December 2006

The Flood 1966

beginning on 30 October 2006

Publications

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Blogs

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KHI

KUNST.LOG

A blog for art history with interviews, reviews, current research and reports from the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut

Digital Humanities

DH Lab blog

The Digital Humanities Laboratory (DH Lab) of the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz is an interdisciplinary research hub dedicated to integrating, utilising, and developing novel methodologies to unlock the full potential of the institute’s vast resources — including the photo library, library, and research findings — while fostering new research questions, approaches, and methods at the intersection of Arts, Humanities, and Computer Science.

GAP – Graffiti Art in Prison

GAP blog

A blog with articles, reviews, interviews and multimedia products by the PhD students of the GAP project

nomoi

The Nomos of Images. Manifestation and Iconology of Law

A blog of the Minerva Research Group "The Nomos of Images. Manifestation and Iconology of Law"

Photo-Objects

Foto-Objekte. Fotografien als (Forschungs-) Objekte in Archäologie, Ethnologie und Kunstgeschichte

A blog of the joint project "Photo-Objects – Photographs as (Research) Objects in Archaeology, Ethnology and Art History"

Videos

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Lecture

Kathryn Rudy:
Touching Narratives in Prayerbooks: a Taxonomy

4 March 2025

Workshop "Humanism between Ideal and Ideology. Images and Notions of the Human after 1945"

Florian Carl:
Echoes of European Conquest in the Hyperpresent Now: Land-Body Ecologies Beyond Liberal Humanism

28-29 November 2024

Workshop "Humanism between Ideal and Ideology. Images and Notions of the Human after 1945"

Peter Metzel:
Humanity Divided: Global Civil War and Post-Human Partisanship in Bruno Latour and Hito Steyerl

28-29 November 2024

Conference "Temporality and Material Culture under Socialism"

Panel 6. The Urban Environment and Remediated Temporality | Temporality and Material Culture under Socialism

1 – 2 July 2021

Conference "Temporality and Material Culture under Socialism"

Panel 5. Time Materialized: Socialist Transcultural Encounters | Temporality and Material Culture under Socialism

1 – 2 July 2021

Conference "Temporality and Material Culture under Socialism"

Panel 4. Embodied Time: Art, Fashion, and Design | Temporality and Material Culture under Socialism

1 – 2 July 2021

Conference "Temporality and Material Culture under Socialism"

Panel 3. Socialism and Material Heritage | Temporality and Material Culture under Socialism

1 – 2 July 2021

Conference "Temporality and Material Culture under Socialism"

Panel 2. Temporalities in Early Soviet Socialism | Temporality and Material Culture under Socialism

1 – 2 July 2021

Conference "Temporality and Material Culture under Socialism"

Panel 1. Soviet Experiments: From the Everyday to Geological Time | Temporality and Material Culture under Socialism

1 – 2 July 2021

Conference "Temporality and Material Culture under Socialism"

Welcome and introductory remarks | Temporality and Material Culture under Socialism

1 – 2 July 2021

Lecture

Carolina B. Garcia-Estévez: Rilke's 'Das Florenzer Tagebuch' in Reappraisal (1898)

4 July 2023

Lecture

Valentyna Bochkovska: Saving cultural Heritage: Museum of Book and Printing of Ukraine (Kyiv) in wartime

7 February 2023

Symposium

Amerindian Art Histories and Archaeologies (Part 4) | The materiality of color: pigments, painted skins, and feathers

22 February 2023

Symposium

Amerindian Art Histories and Archaeologies (Part 3) | Between liquid and solid: metals and their transformation

15 February 2023

Symposium

Amerindian Art Histories and Archaeologies (Part 2) | Working with stone

8 February 2023

Symposium

Amerindian Art Histories and Archaeologies (Part 1) | Interplay between materialities and sensory experiences

1 February 2023

Lecture

Roberto Santamaria:
Pietre "di diversi colori come l'arco celeste": il marmo a Genova nell’Età moderna

25 January 2023

Lecture

Stephan Kemperdick:
Hugo van der Goes and Pictorial Logic

1 December 2022

Lecture

Timothy Kircher:
Humanist Conversations: The Creative Range of Renaissance Dialogue

15 December 2022

Conference "Against Identity? Discourses of Art History and Visual Culture in Italy"

Paolo Villa — Questa piazza al mondo intero. Le molteplici identità della piazza italiana nel cinema

09 – 10 December 2021

Conference "Against Identity? Discourses of Art History and Visual Culture in Italy"

Viviana Costagliola — La costruzione dell’identità collettiva del Meridione attraverso le fotografie del Touring Club Italiano

09 – 10 December 2021

Conference "Against Identity? Discourses of Art History and Visual Culture in Italy"

Elisa Stafferini — The Ambiguity of Rome’s Foundation Myth and Its Protagonists in Early Modern Italian Art

09 – 10 December 2021

Conference "Against Identity? Discourses of Art History and Visual Culture in Italy"

Elvira Miceli — The Liber ad honorem Augusti (Bern, Burgerbibliothek, Cod. 120 II) and the Problem of Sicilian Art

09 – 10 December 2021

Conference "Against Identity? Discourses of Art History and Visual Culture in Italy"

Giorgio Motisi — Al di là del volto. Ritratto e identità nel gruppo di «Corrente»

09 – 10 December 2021

Conference "Against Identity? Discourses of Art History and Visual Culture in Italy"

Giulia Murace — «A Roma ognuno trova la sua patria ideale»: l’arte dei primi del Novecento attraverso le esperienze rioplatensi

09 – 10 December 2021

Conference "Against Identity? Discourses of Art History and Visual Culture in Italy"

Jessica Calipari — Monumenti d’artista e biografie dipinte nell’Italia del XIX secolo: fra genius loci e nation building

09 – 10 December 2021

Conference "Against Identity? Discourses of Art History and Visual Culture in Italy"

Elisa Bernard — Against Identity: Stability and Change in Museum Institutions

09 – 10 December 2021

Conference "Against Identity? Discourses of Art History and Visual Culture in Italy"

Tomáš Murár — Michelangelo and the Concept of Identity in Austrian Art History

09 – 10 December 2021

Conference "Against Identity? Discourses of Art History and Visual Culture in Italy"

Valeria Sedlerenok — L’identità culturale e il patrimonio artistico della Serenissima a Venezia all’inizio dell’Ottocento

09 – 10 December 2021

Conference "Against Identity? Discourses of Art History and Visual Culture in Italy"

Daniele Di Cola — Gustave Soulier e il problema dell’italianità in Les Influences orientales dans la peinture toscane (1924)

09 – 10 December 2021

Conference "Against Identity? Discourses of Art History and Visual Culture in Italy"

Davide Ferri, Giada Policicchio — Introduzione

09 – 10 December 2021

4A_Lab Seminar

Hanin Hannouch: Gustav Fritsch: Three-Color Photography and Nature in the German Empire

10 May 2021

4A_Lab Lecture & Panel Discussion

Christoffer Basse Eriksen: Nehemiah Grew and the Making of the “Anatomy of Plants” (1682)

Part 2 | Response & Panel Discussion
09 March 2022

4A_Lab Lecture & Panel Discussion

Christoffer Basse Eriksen: Nehemiah Grew and the Making of the “Anatomy of Plants” (1682)

Part 1 | Lecture
09 March 2022

KHI Amerindian Lecture Series

Els Lagrou:
Amerindian Abstract Chimeras: Relational Aesthetics in a Transformational Universe

16 December 2021

KHI Amerindian Lecture Series

Andrew Hamilton:
Fragments of Empire: The Afterlife of a Colonial Inca Tunic

02 December 2021

KHI Amerindian Lecture Series

María Eugenia Ulfe:
The Case of Andean Artists and Their Contemporary Artwork

25 November 2021

KHI Amerindian Lecture Series

Natalia Majluf:
Textiles/Art. An Essay on Aesthetic Categories in Twentieth-Century Peru

11 November 2021

KHI Amerindian Lecture Series

Federico Navarrete Linares:
Lienzo de Tlaxcala and Codex Mendoza: Two Examples of Codigophagy in 16th Century New Spain

30 September 2021

KHI Amerindian Lecture Series

Johannes Neurath:
The Uncertain Power of Images: Ambiguous Figuration and Amerindian Cosmopolitics

16 September 2021

Lecture

Hans Aurenhammer: ‘Linea centrica’ und gekrümmter Erdenrand. Horizonte und Perspektive in italienischen Bildern

25 June 2020

4A_Lab Seminar

Dan Handel: The Forest Cons: Sylvan Reflections within Architectural Imaginaries

13 December 2021

International Conference "Temple Cultures & Premodern Worlds"

Concluding Remarks – Richard Davis & Subhashini Kaligotla

17 September 2021

International Conference "Temple Cultures & Premodern Worlds"

Kathleen Morrison: Landscape as Temple

17 September 2021

International Conference "Temple Cultures & Premodern Worlds"

Pia Brancaccio: The Stupa at Sopara: Looking Beyond the Buddhist Remains

17 September 2021

International Conference "Temple Cultures & Premodern Worlds"

Whitney Cox: Seeing Double: The Tantrāloka, the Bṛhadīśvara Temple and the History of Medieval Śaivism

17 September 2021

International Conference "Temple Cultures & Premodern Worlds"

Ruth Barnes: Indian Textiles for Island Taste – Cloth in Early Indian Ocean Trade

15 September 2021

International Conference "Temple Cultures & Premodern Worlds"

Katherine Kasdorf: Temples and Urban Experience in Premodern South Asia: Monuments for the City

03 September 2021

International Conference "Temple Cultures & Premodern Worlds"

Naman Ahuja: Self-Reflecting & Reflecting the Self in the Other: Mirrors in Hindu Iconography and Rituals

03 September 2021

International Conference "Temple Cultures & Premodern Worlds"

Andrea Acri: A Buddhist Bhairava? Kṛtanagara’s Icons against the Backdrop of Pan-Asian Late Tantric Buddhism

03 September 2021

International Conference "Temple Cultures & Premodern Worlds"

Madhuri Desai: The Mughal Temple in Banaras

02 September 2021

International Conference "Temple Cultures & Premodern Worlds"

Pushkar Sohoni: Yadava Temples, Before and After

02 September 2021

International Conference "Temple Cultures & Premodern Worlds"

James McHugh: Alcohol Culture and Indian Temples

02 September 2021

International Conference "Temple Cultures & Premodern Worlds"

Welcome and Introduction

02 September 2021

International Conference "Temple Cultures & Premodern Worlds"

Roundtable and Book Forum with Vidya Dehejia

01 September 2021

4A_Lab Seminar

Lianming Wang: The Last Gift from Beijing: the Jesuit Gardens and the Sino-European Botanical Exchanges

12 July 2021

4A_Lab Seminar

Ayşe Güngör: Roots in Resistance: Vegetal Life in the Contemporary Eco-art Practices from Turkey

14 December 2020

4A_Lab Seminar

Curator Talk with Manuela Fischer & Bat-Ami Artzi: Fragments of the Spanish Conquest from the Americas: Relics or Memorials?

09 February 2021

4A_Lab Seminar

Sophie Chao: Taking Plants and People Seriously: Multispecies Entanglements in the West Papuan Oil Palm Nexus

10 November 2020

4A_Lab Seminar

Curator talk with Stephan Kemperdick

04 November 2020

4A_Lab Seminar

Johannes Neurath: Images and Psychotropic Plants in Mesoamerica

13 October 2020

4A_Lab Seminar

Angela Nikolai: Naturally Functional? Moritz Meurer’s Teaching Aids between Theory and Practice

27 September 2020

Online Book Presentation "Foto-Objekte"

Costanza Caraffa: Introduction

16 December 2020

Online Book Presentation "Foto-Objekte"

Johannes Braun & Toby Cornish (JUTOJO): "An den Rändern, rau". From the Video Installation to the Book

16 December 2020

Online Book Presentation "Foto-Objekte"

Petra Wodtke: Networks – Julia Bärnighausen: Disruptions – Stefanie Klamm: Transformations – Franka Schneider: Co-laboration

16 December 2020

Online Book Presentation "Foto-Objekte"

Heike Grebin & Andreas Trogisch (Troppo Design): From the Project to the Book, or: The Project is the Book, the Book is the Project

16 December 2020

Online Book Presentation "Foto-Objekte"

Alexa Färber: Studying Photography's Multiple Modes of Existence

16 December 2020

Online Book Presentation "Foto-Objekte"

Katharina Sykora: About the 'Nature' of the Photo/Book

16 December 2020

Online Conference

Ariella Minden and Luca Palozzi: Introduction

05 - 06 November 2020

Online Conference

Janis Bell: Corrected mistakes: Printing Leonardo in Paris

05 - 06 November 2020

Online Conference

Gerd Blum: Upside Down: The Fragment of a Failed Monument Presented as a Masterpiece of Success – Michelangelo’s Moses and His Inverted Tablets in Image and Text, 1513–1568

05 - 06 November 2020

Online Conference

Rachel E. Boyd: Waste not, want not: Repairing Renaissance glazed terracotta

05 - 06 November 2020

Online Conference

Nino Nanobashvili: The Rise and Fall of Anatomy: Alessandro Allori’s Unfinished Drawing Manual and his Iterative Struggles with It

05 - 06 November 2020

Online Conference

Caroline Murphy: Diagnosing Disorder: Girolamo di Pace da Prato’s “Memoriale” (1558) and Aqueous Expertise in the Tuscan Landscape

05 - 06 November 2020

Online Conference

Stephanie S. Dickey: Rembrandt’s Failure as a Printmaker

05 - 06 November 2020

Online Conference

Tianna Uchacz: Recipes for Failure: Experimenting, Repairing, and Quitting in Renaissance Toulouse

95 - 06 November 2020

Online Conference

Marco Collareta: Fortuna e sfortuna del colore nella scultura invetriata del Rinascimento

05 - 06 November 2020

Online Study Day

Giorgio Van Straten: Presentation

13 October 2020

Online Study Day

Costanza Caraffa: Introduction

13 October 2020

Online Study Day

Elizabeth Edwards: Street Views: An Everyday Dissemination of Photographs

13 October 2020

Online Study Day

Estelle Blaschke: Rarity vs. Ubiquity. Some Thoughts on the Institutionalisation of Photography

13 October 2020

Online Study Day

Paul Frosh: When is an Archive Also a Bank? Industry, Value and Economy in a Photographic Institution

13 October 2020

Online Study Day

Kelley Wilder: Photographs as Bureaucracy in the Business of Photography

13 October 2020

Online Study Day

Armin Linke: Artistic Practices in Photographic Archives: From Phenotypes to Image Capital

13 October 2020

Online Study Day

Joan M. Schwartz: Access Aims and Descriptive Affordances

13 October 2020

Online Study Day

Tiziana Serena: Making Choices. History is Not a Ready-Made: Institutionalisation as Re-Writing

13 October 2020

Conference

Fulvio Cervini: Spartimenti di Marte. Visioni e narrazioni nelle armature da parata

13 December, 2019

Conference

Sara Ragni: «Canone» dosiano e sue declinazioni nella genesi e nella decorazione delle cappelle gentilizie fiorentine

13 December, 2019

Conference

Ariana Farina: Facciate dipinte e teoria del partimento. Un dialogo possibile

13 December, 2019

EVENING LECTURE

Roberto Bellucci e Cecilia Frosinini: L’Adorazione dei Magi di Leonardo da Vinci prima e dopo il 1481

3 December, 2019

EVENING LECTURE

Luca Giuliani: Michelangelo, il David e la fionda

13 November, 2019

EVENING LECTURE

Dieter Blume: Between vices and virtues – How to survive in an Italian ‘Comune’ of the Trecento

13 November, 2019

Conference

Ariella Azoulay: Errata - Imperial Rights

16 December, 2019

Conference

Thomas Keenan: How to Make a Refugee

16 December, 2019

Conference

Katherine Bregengaard: Visualizing Universalism. A story of Unesco’s travelling Human Rights Exhibition, 1949 - today

16 December, 2019

International conference

Özge Calafato: A Collection in Abu Dhabi. Vernacular Photography, Archive and Heritage Making

24 – 25 October, 2019

International conference

Zoé E. Headley: Making the Private Public? Creating an Archive of Tamil Studio Photography

24 – 25 October, 2019

International conference

Zeinab Azarbadegan: Producing Knowledge of the Space in Nineteenth Century. The Golestan Palace Archive in Iran

24 – 25 October, 2019

International conference

Ahmet A. Ersoy/ Deniz Türker: Photography and the Archival Field at the Yıldız Palace (1876-1909)

24 – 25 October, 2019

International conference

Liam Buckley: Photo Archiving, Monasticism, and Yogic Life at Sivananda Ashram (Rishikesh, India)

24 – 25 October, 2019

International conference

Kylie Thomas: States of Emergency. Photographic Archives During and After Apartheid

24 – 25 October, 2019

International conference

Jessica Holland: Decolonial ‘Affordances’ in the Digital Archive

24 – 25 October, 2019

International conference

Ibrahim A. Ali: New Insights from the Photographic Archives of the Pioneer Studios of Antonio Beato and Attaya Gaddis

24 – 25 October, 2019

International conference

Rodrigo Porto Bozzetti: An International Collection of 1 Million Photographs: Diários Associados Rio de Janeiro

24 – 25 October, 2019

International conference

Sary Zananiri: Gleaning in the Archives. A Transnational Approach to Imaging and Palestine

24 – 25 October, 2019

International conference

Ping-Heng Chen: The Japanese and Guatemalan Collections of the Photographic Work of Yasu Kohei/Juan José de Jesús Yas

24 – 25 October, 2019

International conference

Giulia Paoletti: Escaping the Colonial Archive. The Itinerancy of Amadou Bamba’s Portrait

24 – 25 October, 2019

International conference

Deborah Schultz: Changing Contexts, Challenging Amnesia. Rosângela Rennó’s Rio-Montevideo

24 – 25 October, 2019

International conference

Shahidul Alam: Understanding Absence

24 – 25 October, 2019

International conference

Shamoon Zamir_Costanza Caraffa: Introduction

24 – 25 October, 2019

International conference

Margaret H.Ellis, C.Richard Johnson Jr, William A.Sethares: Computational Characterization of Leonardo’s Papers

12 October 2019

International conference

Barbara Fanini: Dai Glossari alla Leonardo//thek@ Nuovi strumenti e nuove prospettive d’indagine per il lessico vinciano

12 October 2019

International conference

Paolo Galluzzi: Leonardo//thek@1.0. Un’infrastruttura digitale per evitare il naufragio nell’oceano di dati del Codice Atlantico

12 October 2019

International conference

Claudio Calì: Filigrane dal Codice Atlantico. Proposta per una loro valorizzazione “design oriented”

12 October 2019

International conference

Pietro C. Marani: Trascrivere, pubblicare, catalogare il Codice Atlantico. Un bilancio degli ultimi cento anni

12 October 2019

International conference

Nicholas Pickwoad: Deconstructing the Forster Codices. An Artefactual History

11 October 2019

International conference

Claire Farago: Unfinished Business. Leonardo’s Artful Art and Its Written Legacy

11 October 2019

International conference

Frank Fehrenbach: Trasgressioni

11 October 2019

International conference

Francesca Borgo: Da sinistra a destra. Leonardo cambia direzione

11 October 2019

International conference

Domenico Laurenza: La compilazione del Codice Leicester

11 October 2019

International conference

Fabio Frosini: Come lavorava Leonardo. Un percorso nel labirinto delle sue carte

11 October 2019

Project presentation

Dirk Jacob Jansen: Magnum ac Novum Opus in Translatio Nummorum. A Digital Edition of Jacopo Strada’s Numismatic Corpus

15 October 2019

Project presentation

Jan Simane: Translatio Nummorum. The Project and its Prospects

15 October 2019

Project presentation

Volker Heenes: Strada’s Coin Drawings and Coin Descriptions and their Sources in the Census

15 October 2019

Project presentation

Timo Strauch: Ancient Coins and Renaissance Documentation of Coins in the Census of Antique Works of Art and Architecture Known in the Renaissance

15 October 2019

Matinée

Shruti Mahajan: Dastavez I Documents – Memory, Identity and the Archival Paradigm

October 07, 2019

Evening lecture

Andrea Pinotti: "Einfühlung als stilbildende Macht". Warburg, Hildebrand, Vischer, and Corporeal Empathy

25 September 2019

Evening lecture

Andreas Beyer: Die Renaissance vergegenwärtigen. Aby Warburg und André Jolles in Florenz um 1900

23 September 2019

Evening lecture

Arno Lederer: Weder alt noch neu

13 June 2019

Evening lecture

Bernhard Jussen: From Marcus Aurelius's Horse to the Sexuality of Christ

12 June 2019

Workshop: Raffaello e l’architettura

Anna Rebecca Sartore: Il vescovo e il cardinale

7 June 2019

Workshop: Raffaello e l’architettura

Amedeo Belluzzi: Palazzo Pandolfini a Firenze

7 June 2019

Conference

Peter Krieger: Contemporary Neo-Baroque Architecture and Neo-Colonial Ideology

3 – 5 June 2019

Conference

Jens Baumgarten: Invention of the Baroque and Discourses of the Neo-Baroque

3 – 5 June 2019

Conference

Laura Moure Cecchini: Italian Fascism and the Baroque

3 – 5 June 2019

Conference

Estelle Lingo: Baroque Visuality between Perspective and the Photograph

3 – 5 June 2019

Conference

Celeste Brusati: Painting Naturally in the Netherlands

3 – 5 June 2019

Conference

Lorenzo Pericolo: The Baroque Body as a Stylistic Paradox

3 – 5 June 2019

Conference

Evonne Levy: “Baroque”. Mnemosyne Atlas

3 – 5 June 2019

Conference

Baroque to Neo-Baroque: Curves of an Art Historical Concept

3 – 5 June 2019

Evening lecture

Zeynep D. Gürsel: A Picture of Health. Undressing Patients, Redressing Photographs

27 May 2019

Matinée

Josip Belamarić: The Conversion of Diocletian’s Mausoleum into the Cathedral of St. Domnius (Split, Croatia)

22 May 2019

Evening lecture

Andrea De Marchi: Alla ricerca di Verrocchio pittore

13 May 2019

Evening lecture

Gerhard Wolf: Broken Vases, Walking Vessels. The Art of Containment in 4½ Objects

30 April 2019

Evening lecture

Claudia Conforti: Giovanni Michelucci. L'architettura e la città

4 April 2019

Evening lecture

Mauro Mussolin: Palinsesti. Michelangelo e la carta

with an introduction by Alessandro Nova

5 March 2019

Workshop

Audrey Rieber: Translating Riegl. On the constitution of a postivist language of art

with an introduction by Marco Matteo Mascolo

1 March 2019

Workshop

Claudia Hopkins: 10 Years of 'Art in Translation' Reflections on Art History and Translation

with an introduction by Robert Brennan

1 March 2019

Workshop

Introduction by Alessandro Nova and Giovanna Targia

1 March 2019

Workshop

Achim Wurm: Traduzioni d’arte – A Practitioner’s View

with an introduction by Giovanna Targia

1 March 2019

Seminar

Noémie Etienne: Liotard and the Exotic

12 February 2019

Evening lecure

Ben Marzeion: Before the Deluge - the UNESCO World Heritage under Climate Change

with an introduction by Eva-Maria Troelenberg

22 June 2017

A Conversation

Joseph Rykwert and Francesco Pellizzi: A Conversation

within the conference "Streets, Routes, Methods I: Reflections on Paths, Spaces and Temporalities"

5 – 6 May 2017

Evening lecture

Giammarco Piacenti e Michele Bacci: Restaurare il Cielo

with an introduction by Gerhard Wolf and Maria Aresin

12 July 2016

Conference

Costanza Caraffa: Welcome and Introduction

within the conference "Photographic Objects: On the Materiality of Photographs and Photographic Archives in the Sciences"

15 – 17 February 2017

Lecture

Petra Trnková: The Unbearable (and Irresistible) Charm of “Duplicates”

within the conference "Photographic Objects: On the Materiality of Photographs and Photographic Archives in the Sciences"

15 – 17 February 2017

Lecture

Kelley Wilder: The Two Cultures of Word and Image. On Materiality and the Photographic Catalogue

within the conference "Photographic Objects: On the Materiality of Photographs and Photographic Archives in the Sciences"

15 – 17 February 2017

Lecture

H. Geismar and P. Laurenson: Finding Photography, Opening up the Photo-Object: A Dialogue between Anthropology and Conservation

within the conference "Photographic Objects: On the Materiality of Photographs and Photographic Archives in the Sciences"

15 – 17 February 2017

Work with us

Predoctoral and Postdoctoral Fellows (M/F/D) 4A_Lab: Art Histories, Archaeologies, Anthropologies, Aesthetics Fellowships 2026/2029

Library and Photothek

Research topics

Ethics and Architecture

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)

The Southern Caucasus Regions: Heritage, Landscape and Narratives

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

Vessels beyond Containment

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

Iconologies and Iconospheres of the Sea, ca. 1200–1650, III: Liquid Materialities

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

Ship Ex-Voto as Objects, Metaphors and Figures of Communality, from Antiquity to the Nineteenth Century

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

Ethico-Aesthetics of the Visual

The City as Archive. Histories of Collecting and Archiving in and the Musealisation of Florence, Eighteenth Century to the Present

Action ǀ Retraction: Czechoslovak Art and Philosophy in the International Context, 1945–1989

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

Change of Perspective: Art and Philosophy after Wittgenstein

Between Ethos and Excess? A Critique of the Sublime

4A Laboratory: Art Histories, Archaeologies, Anthropologies, Aesthetics (2019–2023)

4A Laboratory: Art Histories, Archaeologies, Anthropologies, Aesthetics

Digital Humanities Lab

Materiality and (In-)Visibility: Women in Socialist and Post-Socialist Public Spaces

The Aesthetics of Marble

The Ligurian Complex. Case Studies in Ecology and Aesthetics

A Heritage Observatory of Socialist Worlds

Heritage, Art History, Tourism (H.A.T.)

The Space of Childhood: The Adler Collection between Architecture, Art, History, Pedagogy and Creativity

Practices of Imagination

Phenomenon ‘Colour’: Aesthetics – Epistemology – Politics

Photo-Objects, Cultural Displays, Archival Performance, and Rhetorics of Value

Objects of Migration, Photo-Objects of Art History: Encounters in an Archive

'La duplice polarità estetica e storica' - Method, Aesthetics and Function of Photographs in the Work of Restorer Barbara Schleicher

Studies on the Photography, Laboratory, and Archival Practice of Anton Hautmann around 1860

On Alinari: Archive in Transition

The Photographers’ Sales Catalogue Collection of the Photothek

The King’s Finger, the Mermaid’s Body and the Power of the Sea

Cultural Possessions

Empires, Environments, Objects

Sounds of Melancholy

OSCOP – Observing South Caucasus’ Historical Landscape: An Open Photo Archive

Coded Objects

Fragile Objects, Coded Knowledge (Architecture's Archives)

The Intelligence of Loss in the Archive

Hidden in Plain Sight

Nation of Norms: Designing German Worldviews One Object at a Time

The Matter of Metadata: Archival Constructs between Index Cards and AI

Impact Research in Architecture and Urbanism

Trading Zones. Art and Philosophy in Eastern Europe since 1945

Genealogies of Inactivity in Eastern Europe after 1945

Humanism between Ideal and Ideology

The Art of AI: Rethinking Notions of Creativity, Aesthetics, and Ethics

Rethinking the (Post-)Socialist Body: Art, Theory, and Politics

Visualising Drugs & Dyes. Art and Pharmacology in Medieval Worlds, 600–1400

Decay, Persistence, Re-Possession. Ecologies of Cultural Heritage

Modernisms and Organicism: Dialogues between Art, Philosophy and Science

The Bibliophilic Networks of Umberto Saba and the Serlupi Crescenzi Collection: Provenance, Collecting Practices, and the Circulation of Books between Trieste and Florence (1920–1950)

Art Histories / Catastrophes / (Heritage) / Ecologies [AC(H)E]

Connected Teams Practicing Transcultural Art Histories under the Conditions of Ecological Crises and Digital Transformations: India, Latin America, and Europe

Guided tour

Alisha Rankin and Julia Voss in conversation at Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin

Lecture

Alisha Rankin: Picturing Expertise: Eye Surgeons, Images, and Innovation in Early Modern Germany

Lecture

Irina Mykhailova, The Italian Renaissance in the Early Soviet Era: Between Political Appropriation and Intellectual Connoisseurship

Lecture

Andreas Mayer: The Physiognomist of the Body: Balzac’s Pedestrian Observations

Lecture

Tim Ingold: Three Moments in the Birth of Marble: Ocean, Quarry, Workshop

Lecture

Christoph Möllers: Why Freedom of the Arts?

Symposium

Modes of Compression: Aesthetics, Operations, Formats

Armin Linke: The City as Archive. Florence

Predoctoral and Postdoctoral Fellows (M/F/D)
4A_Lab: Art Histories, Archaeologies, Anthropologies, Aesthetics
Fellowships 2026/2029

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

Armin Linke:
The City as Archive. Florence

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