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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.

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...

Etho-Ästhetiken des Visuellen

Die weitreichenden Beziehungen zwischen Kunst, Visualität und Ethik benötigen eine grundlegende Untersuchung. Die Kunst- und Bildgeschichte hat sich d...

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.

Fragile Objects, Coded Knowledge (The Architectural Archive)

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 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 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This project studies a recent donation to the Biblioteca Nazionale Braidense in Milan: the unpublished correspondence of the architects Hedwig Feldmann and Hans Edward Adler, dating back to their stay in the USSR from 1930 to 1933, as well as their collection of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.

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.

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...

Zwischen Ethos und Exzess? Eine Kritik des Erhabenen

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 ...

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...

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...

Storia dell'arte transregionale. Attori, spazi, ecologie dal XIII secolo ad oggi

In questa unità la ricerca è focalizzata sulla storia dell'arte e delle pratiche estetiche in una prospettiva transregionale ed ecologica. Ponendo l'accento sulla materialità dell'arte e delle pratiche artistiche, essa va ad investigare le opere d'arte in relazione al loro luogo, spazio, ambiente.

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.

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.

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...

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.

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...

CENOBIUM - Un progetto per la rappresentazione multimediale dei capitelli di chiostro romanici nell’ambito mediterraneo

CENOBIUM intende contribuire all'analisi delle complesse dinamiche degli scambi artistici nel XII e XIII secolo avvalendosi di fotografie digitali in alta definizione, video, scansioni in 3D nonché di una pagina web interattiva.

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.

Empires, Environments, Objects

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

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.

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...

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 Transregionale Studien

La Fotografia come strumento e medium della storia dell'arte

Collezioni fotografiche storiche create con l’intento della documentazione storico-artistica costituiscono anche importanti documenti per una storia dei metodi della disciplina.

Perspektivwechsel: Kunst und Philosophie nach Wittgenstein

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

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.

"La duplice polarità estetica e storica" - Metodo, estetica e funzione delle fotografie nell'opera della restauratrice Barbara Schleicher

La restauratrice di fama internazionale Barbara Schleicher (*1937) ha lavorato principalmente per la soprintendenza, chiese e musei in Toscana tra il 1960 e il 2014.

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.

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.

Coded Objects

In un momento in cui la progettazione e la distribuzione dell’informazione sono diventate un motore dominante della politica e dell’economia mondiali,...

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.

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...

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...

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.

Cultural Possessions

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

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.

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?

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).

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, ...

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.

Digital Humanities Lab

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

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...

Laboratorio 4A: Storia dell’Arte, Archeologia, Antropologia, Estetica

Laboratorio 4A: Storia dell’Arte, Archeologia, Antropologia, Estetica è un programma di ricerca e finanziamento progettato in collaborazione con l’Ist...

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.

Practices of Imagination

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

Photo Archives

'Photo Archives' è una serie aperta di convegni che esplorano le interazioni tra archivi fotografici, fotografia e discipline accademiche.

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.

Ricerca individuale

Pierre Belons "L'Histoire de la nature des oyseaux" (1555) – Naturhistorische Bild- und Sammlungspraxis zwischen dem 16. und 18. Jahrhundert

Christine Kleiter

Painting in Lucca in the Late Fifteenth Century: A Problem in Artistic Geography

Christopher Daly

Infiltrating Artifacts. Florence and Tuscany in their Mediterranean and Global Entanglements

Vera-Simone Schulz

Fungi in the Early Modern Low Countries: Image-forming, Ethnomycology and beyond

Lucas Vanhevel

Liminal Spaces in Coastal East Africa. Archipelagic Thinking and Transcultural Art Histories

Vera-Simone Schulz

Archaeology, Art and Visual Culture, and the Question of National Identity in Modern Iran

Seyed Keivan Moussavi Aghdam

The Lives of Things in Mesoamerica

Sanja Savkić Šebek

Armenian Architecture and the Romanesque: A New Perspective

Beatrice Spampinato

The Queen of Genoa and Baroque Territorial Aesthetics

Davide Ferri

Nature & Nation: art, design and political ecologies in the twentieth century

Sria Chatterjee

Le firme delle artiste nella prima età moderna

Samuel Vitali

Ephemere Architektur im kunsttheoretischen Diskurs (1660/61–1789)

Anne Spagnolo-Stiff

‘Translating, Fashioning, Meaning: the Patronage of Girolamo Basso (1435? – 1507) and Domenico della Rovere (1442 – 1501) between Turin, Savona, Loreto and Rome’

Matteo Chirumbolo

Le mostre d’arte antica in Italia tra il 1877 e il 1938 e la riscoperta del Seicento

Giada Policicchio

The Art and Architecture of the Kingdom of Georgia in the 10th and 11th Centuries

Irene Giviashvili

Il Rinascimento importato. Firenze e la nuova architettura russa (XV–XVI)

Federica Rossi

From Representation to Presence: Reconstituting the Islamic Art Museum through Performing and Contemporary Arts

Philip Geisler

Zwischen Spiritismus, Futurismus und Science-Fiction: die "geniale Wienerin" Edyth von Haynau (1884–1978)

Lisa Hanstein

Drawing and the Making of Architecture

Dario Donetti

The Art of Diplomacy: Artistic Exchange Between Italy and Safavid Iran, 1600–1700

Alexandria Brown-Hedjazi

“The future is our only goal”. Soviet Imaginaire and the Past

Federica Rossi

Elite Patronage and the Business of Spirituality: Commissioning Religious Art in Renaissance Florence

Stephanie Azzarello

Die Stiltheorie der Carracci – eine Neubewertung

Samuel Vitali

Medieval and Byzantine Collections Between the XIX and XX Century: Fascination and Dispersion

Camilla Musci

Blicke auf Platz und Skulptur – Photographien der Piazza della Signoria in Florenz

Stephanie Hanke

Decolonising Museum Narratives: A Comparative Study

Shraddha Bhatawadekar

Plague, Image, Cult: Image Production and Social Resilience in the Second Pandemic Age

Nils Weber

The Gardens of Qaiserbagh: Between Myth, Reality and Illusion

Parul Singh

Practices of Entanglement. Mediating Art, Knowledge, and Trade between Florence and Flanders in the Early Modern Era (c. 1550 – 1680)

Madeline Delbé

Die frühen Jahre von Leopoldo Cicognaras Kunstbibliothek

Barbara Steindl

Schwellenräume zwischen Stadt und Meer: Italienische Hafenanlagen der Frühen Neuzeit als Eingangspätze der Stadt

Stephanie Hanke

Die Farben der Papageien: Exotische Vögel in der Genueser Malerei des 16. bis 18. Jahrhunderts

Stephanie Hanke

Picturing Love in Renaissance Italy: Boccaccio, Petrarch and the Return of Cupid

Rebecca Bowen

The Liber insularum Archipelagi by Cristoforo Buondelmonti

Beatrice Blümer

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Research Group Hannah Baader
Research Group Hana Gründler
Lise Meitner Group Anna-Maria Meister
External Member Jaś Elsner
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Direttore emerito Alessandro Nova
Direttore emerito Max Seidel
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Bilderfahrzeuge. Aby Warburg’s Legacy and the Future of Iconology

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

Etho-Ästhetiken des Visuellen

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

Fragile Objects, Coded Knowledge (The Architectural Archive)

The Photographers’ Sales Catalogue Collection of the Photothek

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

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

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

Zwischen Ethos und Exzess? Eine Kritik des Erhabenen

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

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

Storia dell'arte transregionale. Attori, spazi, ecologie dal XIII secolo ad oggi

A Heritage Observatory of Socialist Worlds

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

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

Rinascimento conteso

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

CENOBIUM - Un progetto per la rappresentazione multimediale dei capitelli di chiostro romanici nell’ambito mediterraneo

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

Empires, Environments, Objects

GAP – Graffiti Art in Prison

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

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

La Fotografia come strumento e medium della storia dell'arte

Perspektivwechsel: Kunst und Philosophie nach Wittgenstein

Photo-Objects, Cultural Displays, and Rhetorics of Value

"La duplice polarità estetica e storica" - Metodo, estetica e funzione delle fotografie nell'opera della restauratrice Barbara Schleicher

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

Ethics and Architecture

Coded Objects

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

Il Progetto EUPLOOS

Phenomenon ‘Colour’: Aesthetics – Epistemology – Politics

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

Cultural Possessions

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

Languages of Art History

The Art of Containment

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

The Ligurian Complex. Case Studies in Ecology and Aesthetics

Digital Humanities Lab

Sounds of Melancholy

Laboratorio 4A: Storia dell’Arte, Archeologia, Antropologia, Estetica

The Aesthetics of Marble

Practices of Imagination

Photo Archives

On Alinari: Archive in Transition

Ricerca individuale

Pierre Belons "L'Histoire de la nature des oyseaux" (1555) – Naturhistorische Bild- und Sammlungspraxis zwischen dem 16. und 18. Jahrhundert

Painting in Lucca in the Late Fifteenth Century: A Problem in Artistic Geography

Infiltrating Artifacts. Florence and Tuscany in their Mediterranean and Global Entanglements

Fungi in the Early Modern Low Countries: Image-forming, Ethnomycology and beyond

Liminal Spaces in Coastal East Africa. Archipelagic Thinking and Transcultural Art Histories

Archaeology, Art and Visual Culture, and the Question of National Identity in Modern Iran

The Lives of Things in Mesoamerica

Armenian Architecture and the Romanesque: A New Perspective

The Queen of Genoa and Baroque Territorial Aesthetics

Nature & Nation: art, design and political ecologies in the twentieth century

Le firme delle artiste nella prima età moderna

Ephemere Architektur im kunsttheoretischen Diskurs (1660/61–1789)

‘Translating, Fashioning, Meaning: the Patronage of Girolamo Basso (1435? – 1507) and Domenico della Rovere (1442 – 1501) between Turin, Savona, Loreto and Rome’

Le mostre d’arte antica in Italia tra il 1877 e il 1938 e la riscoperta del Seicento

The Art and Architecture of the Kingdom of Georgia in the 10th and 11th Centuries

Il Rinascimento importato. Firenze e la nuova architettura russa (XV–XVI)

From Representation to Presence: Reconstituting the Islamic Art Museum through Performing and Contemporary Arts

Zwischen Spiritismus, Futurismus und Science-Fiction: die "geniale Wienerin" Edyth von Haynau (1884–1978)

Drawing and the Making of Architecture

The Art of Diplomacy: Artistic Exchange Between Italy and Safavid Iran, 1600–1700

“The future is our only goal”. Soviet Imaginaire and the Past

Elite Patronage and the Business of Spirituality: Commissioning Religious Art in Renaissance Florence

Die Stiltheorie der Carracci – eine Neubewertung

Medieval and Byzantine Collections Between the XIX and XX Century: Fascination and Dispersion

Blicke auf Platz und Skulptur – Photographien der Piazza della Signoria in Florenz

Decolonising Museum Narratives: A Comparative Study

Plague, Image, Cult: Image Production and Social Resilience in the Second Pandemic Age

The Gardens of Qaiserbagh: Between Myth, Reality and Illusion

Practices of Entanglement. Mediating Art, Knowledge, and Trade between Florence and Flanders in the Early Modern Era (c. 1550 – 1680)

Die frühen Jahre von Leopoldo Cicognaras Kunstbibliothek

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