Programma e Orari

Monday, September 2^nd

The Mystical Mind as a Divine Artist: Visions, Artistic Production, Creation of Images through Empathy

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CHAIRS

Akira AKIYAMA

University of Tokyo

Giuseppe CAPRIOTTI

Università di Macerata

Valentina ŽIVKOVIĆ

Institute for Balkan Studies, Beograd

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SPEAKERS

Alessandra Bartolomei Romagnoli

Pontificia Università Gregoriana, Roma

The Painted Word. Forms of the Mystic Language in XIII -XV Centuries

Claudia Cieri Via

Sapienza Università di Roma

Beyond the Visible. Aby Warburg and his Last Considerations about Images

Michele Bacci

Université de Fribourg

Holy Sites, Ecstatic Experience, and Icon-Generating Visions

Gia Toussaint

Herzog-August-Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel

Heart and Cross in the Works of Henry Suso

Sergi Sancho Fibla

École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris

Representing the Trinity in Circles. Between Iconography and Theology in the Beatrice d’Ornacieux’s (1303) Visions

Teruaki Matsuzaki

Tokyo Kasei Gakuin University

Kake-zukuri: A Japanese Building Type of Mountain Religion for the Mystical Experience

Lamia Balafrej

University of California, Los Angeles

Mystical Visions in the Desert

Philippe Morel

Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne

An Introduction to Spiritual Contemplation: the San Bernardo’s Vision from Filippino Lippi to Fra Bartolomeo

Raffaele Argenziano

Università degli Studi di Siena

The “Represented” World of Colomba da Rieti and Domenica da Paradiso

Lauro Magnani

Università degli Studi di Genova

Imaginative Vision and Artistic Image: from Meditation Tool to Post-Experience Testimony

Monday, September 2^nd

Artist, Power, Public

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CHAIRS

Giovanna Capitelli

Università degli Studi Roma Tre, Roma

Christina Strunck

Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg

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SPEAKERS

Gaetano Curzi

Università di Chieti-Pescara

The Power of Images and Images of Power: the Replicas of the Lateran Saviour in Central Italy

Hannah Baader

Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut

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

Guido Rebecchini

Courtauld Institute, London

Art and Persuasion in Paul III’s Rome

Carlotta Paltrinieri

Medici Archive Project, Firenze

The Social and Spatial Dimensions of the Florentine Accademia del Disegno

Priyani Roy Choudhury

Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Architecture as Visual Language of Imperial Identity in Fatehpur Sikri

Friederike Weis

Museum für Asiatische Kunst, Berlin

Unprecedented Images of Self-confident Women in Mughal India

Marco Folin/ Monica Preti

Università degli Studi di Genova/ Musée du Louvre, Paris – Villa I Tatti (The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies), Firenze

The Wonders of the Ancient World: a Western Imagery in Translation

Roslyn Lee Hammers

University of Hong Kong

The Power of Transformation: Qianlong’s Command of his Empire and its Cultural Traditions in the Garden of the Clear Ripples

Stefano Cracolici

Durham University

Lost in Darkness: The Hazy Origins of National Art in Mexico

Leonardo Santamaría- Montero

Universidad de Costa Rica, Alajuela

From Colony to Republic: Political Images and Ceremonies in Costa Rica (1809- 1858)

Alex Bremner

University of Edinburgh

Propagating Power: Gender, Language, and Empire in the English Baroque Revival (1885-1920)

Giulia Murace

Universidad Nacional de San Martín

Art and Diplomacy. Projects for a South American Academy in Rome (1896-1911)

Zhuge Yi

Hangzhou Normal University

Chinese Contemporary New Media Art

Katarzyna Jagodzińska

Uniwersytet Jagielloński, Kraków

Between Museum as a Symbol and Museum as a Forum. Power Relations in Building Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw

Tuesday, September 3^rd

Art and nature. Cultures of Collecting

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CHAIRS

Marco Collareta

Università di Pisa

Avinoam Shalem

Columbia University, New York

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SPEAKERS

Panel 1. Taxonomies

Dimitrios Latsis

Ryerson University, Toronto

Aby Warburg in Arizona: The Denkraum [Thinking Space] of Nature and Art

Eva-Maria Troelenberg

Universiteit Utrecht

“No quill and no brush can describe this splendor”: Ernst Haeckel, the Suez Canal and developmental vision

Anja Grebe

Danube University Krems

Art, Nature, Metamorphosis: Maria Sibylla Merian as Artist and Collector

Emmelyn Butterfield-Rosen

Clark Art Institute, Williamstown

Taxonomies of Art and Nature after Darwin

Joao Oliveira Duarte

Universidade Nova de Lisboa

Archiving nature. From Vandelli’s Curiosity Cabinet to the Natural History Cabinet

Panel 2. Against (and pro) Nature?

Elizabeth J. Petcu

University of Edinburgh

Form Does Not Follow Function: Bernard Palissy Imitates Natural Processes

Matthew Martin

University of Melbourne

The Philosopher’s Stone – Art and Nature in Eighteenth-Century European Porcelain Production

Stefan Laube

Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Collecting the Other Way Round: From Collecting to Being Collected

Christopher Heuer

University of Rochester

Art of/as Inundation: Dürer’s 1525 Flood

Dipti Khera

New York University, Institute of Fine Art

The Season for Art

Tuesday, September 3^rd

Art and Religions

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CHAIRS

Mateusz Kapustka

Universität Zürich – Kunsthistorisches Institut

Andrea Pinotti

Università degli Studi di Milano

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SPEAKERS

Panel 1. Animation

Carlo Severi

École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris

‘Parer vivo’. An Epistemology of the Semblance of Life in Renaissance Perspective

Ewa Rybalt

Uniwersytet Marii Curie-Skłodowskiej, Lublin

When and Why the Light becomes Flesh. More about Titian’s “Annunciations”

Zuzanna Sarnecka

Uniwersytet Warszawski, Warszawa

Divine Sculptural Encounters in the Fifteenth-Century Italian Household

Caroline van Eck

University of Cambridge

Sacrifices Material and Immaterial. The Survival of Graeco-Roman Candelabra

Panel 2. Alienation

León García Garagarza

Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles

NECUEPALIZTLI: Metamorphosis and Transformation in Mesoamerican Art and Epistemology

Naman Ahuja

Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi

Ābhāsa (again) – External Images for Self-Reflection and Capturing an Inner Essence

Pamela D. Winfield

Elon University

Visual Mimesis, Textual Nemesis: Animation and Alienation in Medieval Japanese Zen Master Portraits

Jeehee Hong

McGill University, Montréal

The Meditating Monkey: Animation and Agency in Chan Buddhist Art

Thursday, September 5^th

De-Sign and Writing

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CHAIRS

Lihong Liu

University of Rochester

Marco Musillo

Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz- Max-Planck-Institut

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SPEAKERS

Sanja Savkic / Erik Velasquez Garcia

Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut & Humboldt Universität zu Berlin / Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad de México

Arts in Letters: the Aesthetics of Ancient Maya Script

Chen Liang

Universität Wien

Signs from the “Celestial Thearch”: Talismans in the Tomb-quelling Texts of the Eastern Han Dynasty

Margaret Graves

Indiana University Bloomington

Articulating the Medieval Islamic Object: Making Space, Movement, and Sound through Epigraphy

Béla Zsolt Szakás

Central European University, Budapest

Written on the Wall: Script and Decoration in Medieval Central Europe

Jens Baumgarten

Universidade Federal de São Paulo

From Signs, Letters and Hidden Paintings: Creative Processes in Colonial Context in Iberoamerica

Rebecca Dufendach et al

Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles

Moteuczoma Xocoyotzin Transformed in the “Three Texts” of the Florentine Codex

Huiping Pang

The Art Institute of Chicago

Nine Drafts for One Stroke (jiuxiu yiba): A Mural Painter’s Underdrawings on Handscrolls

Yu-Chi Lai

Academia Sinica, Taipei

The Literati Baimiao Tradition Encountering European Drawings

Eugenia Bogdanova-Kummer

Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures, Norwich

Modern Zen Calligraphy: Nantenbo Toju between Past and Present

Tutta Palin

Turun Yliopisto, Turku

Modern Disegno: Embodied Splendor of Lines

Virve Sarapik

Eesti Kunstiakadeemia, Tallinn

In-between: Image, Picture, and Sound-picture

Arthur Valle

Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro

Brazilian Pontos Riscados: Spiritual Invocation, Nomination, Geometric Thought

Friday, September 6^th

Building an Icon: Architecture from Project to Product

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CHAIRS

Filiz Çakır Phillip

Aga Khan Museum, Toronto

Dario Donetti

Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz-Max-Planck-Institut

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SPEAKERS

Sharon Smith

Arizona State University, Tempe

Of Architecture, Icons and Meaning: Encountering the pre-modern City

Yu Yang

Kyushu University, Fukuoka

Shadows of Bright Houses: Photographs of Architecture in Colonial Manchuria (1900-1945)

Elena O’Neill

Universidad Católica del Uruguay, Montevideo

The Architecture of Eladio Dieste: Challenging Technology, Structure and Beauty

Morgan Ng

Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles

The Renaissance Fortress as Architectural Icon

Alina Payne

Villa I Tatti, The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, Firenze

TBC

Friday, September 6^th

Matter and Materiality in Art and Aesthetics: from Time to Deep-Time

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CHAIRS

Francesca Borgo

University of St Andrews

Riccardo Venturi

Villa Medici – Accademia di Francia a Roma

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SPEAKERS

Fabian Jonietz

Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz- Max-Planck-Institut

Renaissance Dust

Nicolas Cordon

Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne

The Lifelyness of Stucco: Materiality and Human Presence in Early Modern Decorative Systems

Bronwen Wilson

University of California, Los Angeles

Lithic Images, Jacopo Ligozzi, and the Descrizione del Sacro Monte della Verna (1612)

Amy Ogata

University of Southern California, Los Angeles

Making Iron Matter in the French Second Empire

Siobhan Angus

York University, Toronto

The Labor of Photography: a Materialist Analysis of Occupational Portraits

Jeanette Kohl

University of California, Riverside

‘Matters’ of Life and Death – From San Gennaro to Marc Quinn

Liliane Ehrhart

Princeton University

Freezing Time: Marc Quinn’s Self Series

Jing Yang

Jyväskylän Yliopisto, Jyväskylä

Chinese Art in the Age of the Anthropocene: The Interconnectedness between Humans and Non-human Entities

Nicole Sully

University of Queensland, Brisbane

By the Silvery Light of the Monument: Lucency and the Dematerialising of the Memorial

Stefania Portinari

Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia

Venice Biennale as World Map: Cartographies, Geological Interventions, Landmark Layers

Thursday, September 5^th

The Ghost in the Machine: The Disappearance of Artists, Critics, Viewers?

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CHAIRS

Rakhee Balaram

University at Albany

Flavio Fergonzi

Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa

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SPEAKERS

Kwan Kiu Leung

Royal College of Art, London

Visibility and Criticism in the Public Sphere

Nadia Radwan

Institut für Kunstgeschichte Universität Bern

Invisible Stories: The other Criteria of Art Criticism in the Middle East

Ling Min

Fine Arts Academy of Shanghai University

What is Lost in the Transformation of Art Criticism in China?

José Antonio González Zarandona

Deakin University, Melbourne

Destruction of Images; Images of Destruction: Critical Stances of Contemporary Heritage

Francesco Guzzetti

Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa

The Standard: Questioning Subjectivity in the Early 1970s

Lola Lorant

Université Rennes 2

From Art Criticism to Art History, Challenging the Environmental Denial in the Writings of the Nouveau Réalisme in the Transatlantic World

Maria de Fátima Morethy Couto

Universidade Estadual de Campinas

Bringing the Spectator to the Foreground: Julio Le Parc and Lygia Clark at the Venice Biennials (1966 and 1968)

Peter Bell / Leonardo Impett

Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen / Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institut für Kunstgeschichte, Roma

The Choreography of the Annunciation: Reverse Engineering Baxandall’s Pictorial Plot

Pamela Bianchi

Université Paris 8

The Digital Presence of the Ephemeral: Three Study Cases

Sara De Chiara

Sapienza Università di Roma

Edmond de Belamy or Bel Ami: the Rise of the “Non-Artist” vs the Artist’s Retreat

Friday, September 6^th

Voyage

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CHAIRS

Marzia Faietti

Gallerie degli Uffizi / Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz- Max-Planck-Institut

Ana Gonçalves Magalhães

MAC USP – Museu de Arte Contemporânea da Universidade de São Paulo

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SPEAKERS

Miyuki Aoki Girardelli

Istanbul Technical University

The “Orient” in the West: Japanese Architect Ito Chuta’s Travels in the Ottoman Empire and its Challenge to the Oriental Narrative

David Young Kim

University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia

Giorgio Vasari and Antonio Vieira: the Travels of Transatlantic Art Theory

Maria Berbara

Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro

Representations of Brazil in Italy in the 16th and 17th centuries: between Domestication and Ferocity

Alexander Gaiotto Miyoshi

Universidade Federal de Uberlândia

The Emigrants (1910) by Antonio Rocco: Voyage of a Painting and its Painter

Luiz Marques

Universidade Estadual de Campinas

Italian Works of Art from XVI to XVIII Century Introduced in Brazil, Unknown or Less Known in Italy (and Brazil)

Paolo Rusconi

Università degli Studi di Milano

“Un’idea del Brasile”. Pietro Maria Bardi’s Second Life

Gerhard Wolf

Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut

Beyond the Voyage