A roundup of items from ROME and H-ARTHIST; apologies for the inevitable 
cross-postings.

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Francis Haskell Memorial Fund
2007 Scholarships

Grants of up to £2000 will be awarded from this fund each year to enable
scholars to spend time in libraries or archives carrying out advanced
research in the history of western art. Preference may be given to
candidates in the early stages of their careers; to subjects related to
the commissioning, collecting or interpretation of works of art made
before 1914; and to research carried out outside the applicant’s country
of residence. Scholars from any country may apply. An additional award may
be made by the Trustees of The Burlington Magazine Foundation on the
recommendation of the Francis Haskell Trustees.

Applications, including a two-page proposal, a C.V. and a budget, should
be sent by email to [log in to unmask] - please label all
attachments with surname of applicant) or by post to Caroline Elam, 531
Caledonian Road, London N7 9RH, by 15th April 2007. There is no
application form. Applicants should ask two referees to write separately
to the same address by the same deadline in support of their proposals.
Awards will be made by 1st July 2007.

The Fund is still welcoming contributions from friends, former pupils and
admirers of Francis Haskell, and cheques, made out to The Francis Haskell
Memorial Fund, should be sent to John Nicoll, 4 Torriano Mews, Torriano
Avenue, London NW5.

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Family affairs: kinship and society in Renaissance Italy

Early modern society hinged ? at all social levels - upon the 
connections between kin. Trade, diplomacy and cultural exchange 
flourished through family relationships. This panel will focus on the 
practical cooperation between siblings, cousins or other relatives that 
profited each individual as well as the family. Papers might discuss 
kinship networks of varying social backgrounds, those that cross 
geographic borders (Rome and the provinces, Italy and Northern Europe, 
etc.) or those that link clerics and their secular relatives. How did 
early modern Italian families work together for individual support and 
collective success? Should we talk about ?family strategies?, or does 
that term imply a level of planning that was in fact absent? What was 
the impact of intra-familial disputes? How did families function as 
information networks, hospitality providers, and cultural disseminators?

Please send a 250 word abstract to both organizers 
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CALL FOR PAPERS
‘Rome: the Growth of the City from the Return of the Popes to the Present’
Seminar 7: From Pilgrims to Tourists
Birkbeck, University of London
June 22 2007

This is an interdisciplinary research seminar, and scholars from all
backgrounds are welcome to submit proposals on visitors to the city of Rome,
from the Renaissance to the present day, with an emphasis on pilgrimage and
the emergence of tourism.

Send brief abstract to: [log in to unmask]

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CALL FOR PAPERS:

RSA Renaissance Society of America, Annual Meeting
Chicago, 3-5 April 2008

The Ideal and the Utopian in Renaissance Architecture and Architectural
Theory


This call for papers envisions several panels, addressing the
non-realistic in Renaissance architecture and architectural treatises in
its cultural contexts. Interdisciplinary approaches are especially
welcome.

Topics might include,  but are by no means limited to:

- theory vs. praxis
- antiquity restored, imagined, invented?
- the architect's self-conception
- architecture and travel literature
- foundation rituals
- magic, astrology, cosmology
- the metaphysics of mathematics and geometry
- architecture parlante
- the art of memory
- building virtue
- controlling society
- the city's representation in literature and the arts

Please send abstract and short curriculum vitae to Berthold Hub:
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Deadline: 10 May 2007

Selected presenters will need to be members of the RSA by the time of the
conference.


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BIBLIOTHECA HERTZIANA
MAX-PLANCK-INSTITUT FÜR KUNSTGESCHICHTE

Internationale Tagung
Convegno Internazionale

Dürer, Italien und Europa
Dürer, l'Italia e l'Europa

23-25 aprile 2007

Unter der Schirmherrschaft der Botschaft der Bundesrepublik
Deutschland in Rom
Con il patrocinio dell'Ambasciata della Repubblica Federale
di Germania a Roma

In Zusammenarbeit mit/In collaborazione con
British School at Rome,
Sainsbury Lecture Theatre
Via Gramsci 61, 00197 Roma





Lunedì 23 aprile

9.30    SYBILLE EBERT-SCHIFFERER
Direttrice, Bibliotheca Hertziana, Roma
     KRISTINA HERRMANN-FIORE
Direttrice, Galleria Borghese, Roma
Saluti e presentazione


DÜRER E GLI ARTISTI ITALIANI
Presiede SYBILLE EBERT-SCHIFFERER

10.00    SIMONE FERRARI
Università degli Studi, Torino
Dürer e Jacopo de' Barbari:
continuità di un rapporto

10.30    MARZIA FAIETTI
Direttrice, Gabinetto Disegni e Stampe degli Uffizi, Firenze
Aut Facilitas aut Lex? Dürer agli esordi e la grafica degli italiani

11.00     Coffee break

11.30    ANNA SCHERBAUM
Kunst- und Kulturpädagogisches Zentrum der Museen in Nürnberg
Pontormo und Dürer

12.00    ROMEO DE MAIO
Università degli Studi di Napoli "Federico II"
Dürer e Michelangelo nel mito dell'artista ideale

12.30     CLAUDIA ECHINGER-MAURACH
Institut für Kunstgeschichte, Universität Münster
Michelangelo begegnet Dürer

13.00     Pausa pranzo

14.30    KRISTINA HERRMANN-FIORE
Galleria Borghese, Roma
Apparenze antagoniste:
Dürer versus i Carracci e Caravaggio

15.00    HERWARTH RÖTTGEN
Kunsthistorisches Institut, Universität Stuttgart
Silen, Koch und Kaiphas, Erfindung und Wege eines "Typs". Von Mantegna und
Dürer zu Luca Giordano und anderen

15.30    Coffee break


DÜRER E L'ACCADEMIA FIORENTINA
Presiede ROMEO DE MAIO

16.00    GIOVANNI MARIA FARA
Istituto Nazionale di Studi sul Rinascimento, Firenze
Albrecht Dürer, Cosimo Batoli e la nascita dell'Accademia Fiorentina

16.30    PIETRO ROCCASECCA
Accademia di Belle Arti, Roma
Il ruolo della teoria düreriana nella formazione degli artisti nelle
Accademie di Firenze e Roma



Martedì 24 aprile
DÜRER E GLI ARTISTI IN EUROPA TRA NORD E SUD
Presiede MARZIA FAIETTI

10.00    GIULIA BARTRUM
Department of Prints and Drawings, The British Museum, London
The Reception of Dürer in England

10.30    NICOLE DACOS CRIFO
Université Libre de Bruxelles
Dürer, Van Orley, Vincidor e la scuola di Bruxelles

11.00    Coffee break

11.30    MARIEKE VON BERNSTORFF
Bibliotheca Hertziana, Roma
Albrecht Dürer "pintor católico, y santo". Zur Rezeption der
Reproduktionsgraphik Dürers in einigen Gemälden dse 16. und 17. Jahrhunderts

12.00    BENITO NAVARRETE PRIETO
Universidad de Alcalá, Madrid
Dürer e i pittori di Filippo IV

12.30    Pausa pranzo


DÜRER TEORICO: RECEZIONE IN ITALIA ED EUROPA
Presiede NICOLE DACOS CRIFÒ

14.00    JULIANA BARONE
Department of the History of Art, Oxford University
"Those lines and circles": geometry and proportion in Leonardo, Dürer and
Talpino

14.30    ELENA FILIPPI
Institut für Kunstgeschichte der LMU, München
Dürer, Vitruvio, le regole dell'arte e della vita. Una esemplificazione
"da manuale"

15.00    Coffee break

15.30    PETER SCHREIBER
ehemals Institut für Mathematik und Informatik, Universität Greifswald
Dürer's importance within the development of geometry as seen in the past
and in the present

16.00    CHRISTIAN RING
Hamburger Kunsthalle
Dürers Lehre von menschlicher Proportion und ihre Rezeption im Kontext des
Trattato dell'arte de la pittura von Lomazzo

18.00 Visita alla mostra "Dürer e l'Italia"
  riservata ai relatori del convegno




Mercoledì 25 aprile
DÜRER E L'ANTICO
Presiede BERNARD ANDREAE

9.30    ANTONIO GIULIANO
Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Roma
Dürer, l'antico e l'oriente

10.00    JÜRGEN MÜLLER
Bibliotheca Hertziana, Roma
Dürer und Laokoon

10.30    Coffee break

DÜRER IN GERMANIA
Presiede MATTHIAS WINNER

11.00    THOMAS ESER
Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nürnberg
Bellini in Nürnberg. Indizien für die Begegnung des jungen Dürer mit
italienischer Kunst vor seinen Italienreisen

11.30    KARL SCHÜTZ
Direktor der Gemäldegalerie des Kunsthistorischen Museums Wien
Dürer und der Manierismus: das Bildnis des Johannes Kleberger

12.00     MATTHIAS MENDE
Nürnberg
Dürers Römertugenden im Nürnberger Rathaussaal

12.30     Pausa pranzo


DÜRER E I TEMI DELLA CULTURA EUROPEA
Presiede KRISTINA HERRMANN-FIORE

14.00    FRITZ KORENY
Institut für Kunstgeschichte, Universität Wien
Albrecht Dürer, MELENCOLIA I.
Anmerkungen zu den Vorstudien in London und Berlin

14.30    CLAUDIO STRINATI
Polo Museale Romano, Roma
Recenti interpretazioni della Melancolia I

15.00    MAURIZIO CALVESI
Roma
Dürer e l'alchimia

15.30    Coffee break

16.00     MATTHIAS WINNER
Bibliotheca Hertziana, Roma
'Hand weg von der Tafel' (manum de tabula). Die Maxime des Apelles in
Dürers Erasmus-Stich und ihre Nachfolge

16.30     JEFFREY CHIPPS SMITH
The University of Texas at Austin
Panofsky's Dürer

Coordinamento scientifico: Prof. Dr. Sybille Ebert-Schifferer
In collaborazione con Dr. Kristina Herrmann-Fiore

Segreteria: Elisabetta Pastore (+39-06-69993226)
e-mail: [log in to unmask]

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Call for Papers:  Push Me, Pull You: Art and Devotional Interaction in Late
Medieval and Early Modern Europe

Deadline: August 31, 2007

Late Medieval and Early Modern art was sometimes pushy. Its architecture
demanded that people move through certain passages, its sculptures played
elaborate games alternating between concealment and revelation, and its
paintings charged viewers with moving visually through two dimensions,
simulating imaginative pilgrimage journeys. The viewers of this period were
meant to push back, interacting with artwork in a performative manner,
while gaining insight into religious belief and their own reactions to
these demanding works of art.  In recent years, scholars have begun to
investigate the many ways in which people interacted with artwork of this
period.  Far from sitting back as spectators, viewers were often involved
in a physical and imaginative relationship with art, and artists and
architects designed their work with this in mind. This volume seeks to
bring further attention to how interactive artwork functioned in the late
medieval and early modern periods.

Scheduled to be published by Brill Academic Press, Leiden, in 2009, we are
looking for essays that explore interactive artwork: architecture,
sculpture, metalwork, manuscript illumination, painting, etc., all are
welcome.
Please send a 1-page (or less) abstract to:

Sarah Blick
Department of Art History
Bailey House 4, Kenyon College
Gambier, OH 43022
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and

Laura Gelfand
Myers School of Art
The University of Akron
Akron, OH 44325-7801
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by August 31, 2007

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CALL FOR PAPERS:

RSA Renaissance Society of America, Annual Meeting

Chicago, 3-5 April 2008

Francesco di Giorgio Martini

This call for papers welcomes new perspectives on Francesco di Giorgio
Martini's architecture and architectural theory and its cultural context.
Interdisciplinary approaches are especially welcome.

Please send abstract and short curriculum vitae to Berthold Hub:
[log in to unmask]

Deadline: 10 May 2007

Selected presenters will need to be members of the RSA by the time of the
conference.