Paris, Jun 9–10, 2022Deadline: Mar 1, 2022 International Symposium:“Gold in Renaissance Western Europe. Interdisciplinary Approaches” In his influential book on painting and visual culture in fifteenth-century Italy (Painting and Experience in Fifteenth-Century Italy, 1972), Michael Baxandall described the abandonment of gold in painting practices as a sensitive phenomenon both in contracts between painters and patrons,Continue reading “CFP: Gold in Renaissance Western Europe, Paris, June 2022, Deadline: 1st March 2022”
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Scholarship: Medieval and Renaissance Studies MA at UCL, Deadline 31st March 2022
The square half-mile around the UCL Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies must contain the highest concentration of manuscripts, books and seminars relating to the period 400 to 1600 anywhere in the Anglophone world. Situated halfway between the British Library and the School of Advanced Study, the Centre benefits from the richness of local resourcesContinue reading “Scholarship: Medieval and Renaissance Studies MA at UCL, Deadline 31st March 2022”
Online Lecture: Art and Internal Anatomy – Michelangelo, Bronzino, and Mannerist Bodies, 8th February 2022, 5:00-6:30pm (CET)
Christian Kleinbub – Ohio State UniversityBuilding on the speaker’s research on Michelangelo’s investment in internal anatomical matters, this talk proposes that other artists of his time, especially Bronzino, paid particular attention to the meaning of the internal organs like the liver, heart, and brain, referencing those organs to explain the internal states of represented bodies. Although suchContinue reading “Online Lecture: Art and Internal Anatomy – Michelangelo, Bronzino, and Mannerist Bodies, 8th February 2022, 5:00-6:30pm (CET)”
Online Course: Mapping Worlds – Medieval to Modern, Warburg Institute, 25th-29th April 2022 3:00-5:00pm (BST)
Course tutor: Alessandro Scafi (Senior Lecturer in Medieval and Renaissance Cultural History) The aim of this course is to explore how maps have served to order and represent physical, social and imaginative worlds from around 1200 to 1700. The focus is on the iconographic character of maps and the complex relation between art and scienceContinue reading “Online Course: Mapping Worlds – Medieval to Modern, Warburg Institute, 25th-29th April 2022 3:00-5:00pm (BST)”
Online Lecture: Murray Seminar – Eroticism, Emulation and Censorship: the Two Lovers by Giulio Romano, Barbara Furlotti, 10th February 2022 5pm (GMT)
Giulio Romano (1492/1499-1546), Raphael’s favourite pupil, played a key role in the awakening of a new approach to eroticism in Renaissance art. Engaging with openly pornographic subjects and more traditional mythological themes, such as the loves of the gods, Giulio became one of the most imaginative and provocative Renaissance painters of erotically charged scenes. ThisContinue reading “Online Lecture: Murray Seminar – Eroticism, Emulation and Censorship: the Two Lovers by Giulio Romano, Barbara Furlotti, 10th February 2022 5pm (GMT)”
Online Course: Introduction to Arabic Manuscript Studies, Hill Museum and Manuscript Library, 13th-24th June 2022
This two-week introductory course is open to graduate students, advanced undergraduates, faculty, and independent scholars with a research interest in Arabic manuscripts. The course will introduce students to the study of Arabic manuscripts in their historical, cultural, and material dimensions and to a diversity of Arabic manuscript traditions from West Africa and the Middle East,Continue reading “Online Course: Introduction to Arabic Manuscript Studies, Hill Museum and Manuscript Library, 13th-24th June 2022”
CFP: Editing Late-Antique and Early Medieval Texts. Problems and Challenges, Deadline 28th February 2022
Editing Late-Antique and Early Medieval Texts. Problems and Challenges II, University of Milan, October 10–12, 2022 This workshop continues the project inaugurated in 2017 in Lisbon (link), aiming at fostering and promoting the exchange of ideas on how to edit late Antique and early Medieval texts (mostly Latin texts, but without excluding possible extensions toContinue reading “CFP: Editing Late-Antique and Early Medieval Texts. Problems and Challenges, Deadline 28th February 2022”
Online Lecture: Locating Norman Sicily in Medieval Intellectual History, Philippa Byrne, IHR Europe 1100-1550 Seminar, 3rd February 2022 5:30pm (GMT)
The IHR Europe 1150-1550 seminar returns this Thursday 3rd February 5.30 pm. Dr Philippa Byrne will speak on ‘Locating Norman Sicily in Medieval Intellectual History’. This seminar will take place in hybrid form. Those meeting in person should assemble at UCL Cruciform LT2. It will also be possible to join the meeting online Please register online here. (The online formContinue reading “Online Lecture: Locating Norman Sicily in Medieval Intellectual History, Philippa Byrne, IHR Europe 1100-1550 Seminar, 3rd February 2022 5:30pm (GMT)”
Online Lecture: “Masters in Miniature”, SIMS Lecture Series, Bryan C. Keene, February 11th 2022, 1-2:30pm EST
The Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies is pleased to announce the next lecture in its Online Lecture Series, presented in partnership with Center for Italian Studies and the Italian Studies section of the Department of Romance Languages at the University of Pennsylvania: Masters in Miniature: Future Horizons for Italian Manuscript StudiesBryan C. Keene, Riverside CityContinue reading “Online Lecture: “Masters in Miniature”, SIMS Lecture Series, Bryan C. Keene, February 11th 2022, 1-2:30pm EST”
Online Lecture: Imagining Jerusalem in late Medieval Nuremberg – Adam Kraft & Albrecht Durer, Dr Dilshat Harman, April 1st 2022, 12:00-13:30 CT
“Imagining Jerusalem in Late Medieval Nuremberg: Adam Kraft and Albrecht Durer”Dr. Dilshat Harman, Center for Visual Studies of the Medieval and Early Modern Culture, Russian State University for the Humanities in Moscow Friday, April 1st, 2022 | 12:00–1:30 PM CT | via Zoom: https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/96410986654 The lecture will deal with Jerusalem in late medieval imagination, focusing onContinue reading “Online Lecture: Imagining Jerusalem in late Medieval Nuremberg – Adam Kraft & Albrecht Durer, Dr Dilshat Harman, April 1st 2022, 12:00-13:30 CT”
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