Renaissance Siena: Studying a City and its Art
2.00 - 6.00pm, Monday 19 November 2007
Research Forum South Room, Courtauld Institute of Art, Somerset House, Strand, London WC2R 0RN
To complement the current National Gallery exhibition, this afternoon of papers by four leading scholars - including
Luke Syson, curator of the exhibition, and two contributors to the catalogue - invites discussion of the presence of
the past in a Tuscan city. To what extent do the art and architecture of Siena draw on classical antiquity and on
the more recent, medieval, past? Are these two histories consciously chosen and clearly distinguishable, or are they
intertwined in a manner that is distinctively Sienese? Papers on painting, architecture and urban design will focus
attention on issues that lie at the heart of the National Gallery exhibition.
Speakers and titles:
Machtelt Israëls (University of Amsterdam), Sassetta's 'Assumption' and the Renaissance Revival of the Trecento: A
Sienese Phenomenon?
Philippa Jackson (independent scholar), Siena Palace Decoration and the Antique
Fabrizio Nevola (Oxford Brookes University), Rewriting the City's Pasts in Stone: Humanists, Antiquarians and the
Built Fabric of Renaissance Siena
Luke Syson (National Gallery), Modernising the Medieval. The Politics of Stylistic Choice in Later Quattrocento Siena
Open to all, free admission
Organised by Professor Patricia Rubin & Dr. Joanna Cannon
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