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

09 – 10 December 2021

The video recordings from this conference are now available on the KHI's Vimeo channel.

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Raffaello.
Mito e percezione

edited by Daniele Benati, Sonia Cavicchioli, Sandra Costa, Marzia Faietti

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.

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Library and Photothek

Please note that the Institute will have reduced opening hours from 1 August to 31 August.
Library: Monday to Friday, from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm
The Photothek will be accessible by appointment only (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.

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 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...

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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...

Bilderfahrzeuge. Aby Warburg’s Legacy and the Future of Iconology

Der Forschungsverbund hat zum Ziel, die Migration von Bildern, Artefakten und Ideen aus einer interdisziplinären Perspektive zu erforschen. Dabei geht es besonders um Beziehungen zwischen Kulturen, die sich in Zeit und Ort, Sprache, Religion und politischer Ordnung unterscheiden, und um die theoretischen Implikationen von solchen Migrations-, Transformations- und Interaktionsprozessen.

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.

Ethico-Aesthetics of the Visual

The far-reaching relations between art, visuality and ethics require fundamental examination. Art history, and more generally the history of images, h...

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

The tendency observed in recent years to question the Western history of (post-)modernism, and to increasingly take into account, among other things, ...

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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 ...

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).

Artist in Residence: Armin Linke

Il Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz ha invitato Armin Linke quale artist in residence per il 2019-2022. Le ricerche dell'artista e fotografo...

Digital Humanities Lab

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

GAP – Graffiti Art in Prison

GAP – Graffiti Art in Prison connects Palazzo Chiaramonte (Steri) in Palermo with artistic expression in prisons today. This interdisciplinary project, funded by the EU Program Erasmus+, incorporates scientific research, didactic and artistic programs, and social engagement.

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.

Research areas

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

Practices of Imagination

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

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, and Rhetorics of Value

Systems of value impact the lives of photographs as well as the work practices in art-historical photo archives.

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“ – Methode, Ästhetik und Funktion der Fotografien im Werk der Restauratorin Barbara Schleicher

Die international renommierte Restauratorin Barbara Schleicher (*1937) war in den Jahren 1960–2014 vor allem für Denkmalbehörden, Kirchen und Museen in der Toskana tätig.

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.

Research areas

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.

Exhibitions

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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

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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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

Teamleitung Finanzbuchhaltung (m/w/d)

Library and Photothek

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)

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

The Art of 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

Bilderfahrzeuge. Aby Warburg’s Legacy and the Future of Iconology

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

Artist in Residence: Armin Linke

Digital Humanities Lab

GAP – Graffiti Art in Prison

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, and Rhetorics of Value

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

„La duplice polarità estetica e storica“ – Methode, Ästhetik und Funktion der Fotografien im Werk der Restauratorin 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

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

Archival Practices in the Photothek

In Noble Garb – Historical Paper Bindings in the Library

ART HISTORY WITH A CAMERA. The photography of Ralph Lieberman

Joseph Beuys collection

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!

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