Did the Florentine philosopher Marsilio Ficino (1433-99) influence the art of his time? Art historians have been fiercely debating this question for decades. This book starts with Ficino’s views on the imagination as a faculty of the soul, and shows how these ideas were part of a long philosophical tradition and inspired fresh insights. ThisContinue reading “New Publication: Ficino and Fantasy – Imagination in Renaissance Art and Theory from Botticelli to Michelangelo by Marieke J.E. van den Doel”
Author Archives: Ellie Wilson
Call for Papers: Session at International Congress on Medieval Studies (Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, 9th -14th May 2022), Deadline: 10th May 2021
IAS Sponsored Sessions at ICMS 2022 Call for IAS-Organized Session Proposals (https://:www.italianartsociety.org)57th International Congress on Medieval Studies 2022Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, 9-14 May 2022 https://wmich.edu/medievalcongress The IAS sponsors up to three linked sessions at the annual meeting of the International Congress on Medieval Studies (ICMS). The Congress is an annual gathering of more than 3,000 scholarsContinue reading “Call for Papers: Session at International Congress on Medieval Studies (Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, 9th -14th May 2022), Deadline: 10th May 2021”
Online Lecture: Curators’ Introduction – Thomas Becket: Murder and the Making of a Saint, 7th May 2021, 17.30–18.30 (BST)
To mark last year’s 850th anniversary of his brutal murder, the exhibition explored Becket’s remarkable life, death and legacy. It presents his journey from a merchant’s son to Archbishop of Canterbury, and the attempts to obliterate his cult under the Tudor dynasty. Introduced and chaired by the Director of the British Museum, Hartwig Fischer, theContinue reading “Online Lecture: Curators’ Introduction – Thomas Becket: Murder and the Making of a Saint, 7th May 2021, 17.30–18.30 (BST)”
New Journal Article: ‘A portrait of central Italy’s geology through Giotto’s paintings and its possible cultural implications’, Ann Pizzorusso, Geoscience Communication, Volume 3, Number 2, December 2020
Central Italy has some of the most complex geology in the world. In the midst of this inscrutable territory, two people emerged – St. Francis and Giotto – and they would ultimately change the history of ecology, religion and art by extolling the landscapes and geology of this region. From antiquity to the Middle Ages,Continue reading “New Journal Article: ‘A portrait of central Italy’s geology through Giotto’s paintings and its possible cultural implications’, Ann Pizzorusso, Geoscience Communication, Volume 3, Number 2, December 2020”
Call for Papers: ‘Facciate Parlanti’, Opus Incertum, Issue 8 (2022), Deadline: June 30th, 2021
Since antiquity buildings have carried inscriptions on their surface. In particular, the habit of decorating façades with epigraphs spread in early modern Europe in keeping with the all’antica revival. The 2022 issue of the journal Opvs Incertvm (Department of Architecture, University of Florence) aims to investigate the role of new and ancient inscriptions (i.e. spolia)Continue reading “Call for Papers: ‘Facciate Parlanti’, Opus Incertum, Issue 8 (2022), Deadline: June 30th, 2021”
Online Seminar: The Global Middle Ages Seminar, Valerie Hansen and Morris Rossabi, 5th May 2021
Valerie Hansen and Morris Rossabi will present at the Global Middle Ages Seminar. They will each give a short paper followed by a moderated conversation and Q&A session. “The World’s Most Active Sea Route Before 1492: From the Chinese ports of Quanzhou and Guangzhou to Basra (in Modern Iraq) and Sofala (in Modern Mozambique)” (Valerie Hansen) Starting aroundContinue reading “Online Seminar: The Global Middle Ages Seminar, Valerie Hansen and Morris Rossabi, 5th May 2021”
Online Lecture: The Tacuina Sanitatis of Giangaleazzo Visconti – encounters between visual experience, courtly culture, and medicine, Dominic Olariu, Murray Seminars at Birkbeck, 25th May, 4.45pm for 5pm (BST)
Four illustrated Tacuinum sanitatis (Tables of Health) manuscripts commissioned in the late fourteenth century by Giangaleazzo Visconti, Count of Milan and Pavia, pioneered a genre of books based on empirical experience. The manuscripts assimilated the eleventh-century Arabic medical and dietary knowledge of the tract Taqwīm al-ṣiḥḥa (Restoration of Health), itself a ground-breaking work, combining this with new formats andContinue reading “Online Lecture: The Tacuina Sanitatis of Giangaleazzo Visconti – encounters between visual experience, courtly culture, and medicine, Dominic Olariu, Murray Seminars at Birkbeck, 25th May, 4.45pm for 5pm (BST)”
Online Lecture: Land, Memory and Power – Royal Privileges and the Representation of Kingship in Castile (c.1158 – 1350), Fernando Arias Guillén, 5th May 2020 1-2pm (BST)
Medieval encounters is an interdisciplinary medieval seminar series organised by Cambridge University, supported by the Trevelyan Fund and the History Faculty. Seminars normally take place in St Catharine’s College twice a term, including lectures and events such as meetings with international graduate students and debates. Until further notice seminars are held on Zoom. The linkContinue reading “Online Lecture: Land, Memory and Power – Royal Privileges and the Representation of Kingship in Castile (c.1158 – 1350), Fernando Arias Guillén, 5th May 2020 1-2pm (BST)”
Online Lecture: Anachronic Empire: The Heraldic Columns of Diogo Cão as Colonial Monuments, Medieval and Modern, Dr Jessica Barker, 28th April 2021, 2.30-4.00pm (BST)
UEA World Art Research Seminar 2021 A black and white photograph shows four men standing around a column on a rocky outcrop, one in clerical dress, one in military uniform, and two more dressed in suits. The monument comprises a pitted stone column surmounted by a metal shield with the coat of arms of theContinue reading “Online Lecture: Anachronic Empire: The Heraldic Columns of Diogo Cão as Colonial Monuments, Medieval and Modern, Dr Jessica Barker, 28th April 2021, 2.30-4.00pm (BST)”
Online Lecture: Salvation and the Apocalypse in Santa Caterina, Galatina – eschatological narratives and Greek identity in the Salento, Maria Harvey, 26th April, 18.00–19.30 (CET)
This event will take place via Zoom and requires advance registration. Please click here to reserve your place. As she returned to the Salento in 1415/6, dowager queen of Naples and Countess of Lecce Maria d’Enghien commissioned an extensive fresco cycle in the Franciscan church of Santa Caterina, founded by her first husband three decades earlier inContinue reading “Online Lecture: Salvation and the Apocalypse in Santa Caterina, Galatina – eschatological narratives and Greek identity in the Salento, Maria Harvey, 26th April, 18.00–19.30 (CET)”
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