Istituto Universitario Olandese di Storia dell'Arte, Florence,
Sandro Botticelli (1444-1510): artist and entrepreneur in Renaissance
Florence
International conference organised by Gert Jan van der Sman (Istituto
Universitario Olandese di Storia dell'Arte) and Irene Mariani (The
University of Edinburgh).
20-21 June 2014
Florence, Istituto Universitario Olandese di Storia dell'Arte
The art of Botticelli is at the very centre of Renaissance scholarship.
While iconographic studies have greatly enhanced our knowledge of the
artist’s imagery and its intellectual context, the complex
interpretative literature has obscured our perception of Botticelli as
a Florentine citizen, painter-craftsman, and entrepreneur. Putting less
emphasis on the world of ideas, this conference seeks to address
crucial issues in understanding the concrete dimension of Botticelli’s
artistic activity. The speakers will explore four facets that bring
together new trends of investigation: his working methods and
technique; his drawing practice; his commercial strategies; and his
relationships with neighbours, patrons and friends.
Over the past decades Botticelli's paintings have been subject to
considerable technical analyses that have highlighted the painter’s
extraordinary skills. During the conference new findings will be
presented, including the recently discovered underdrawings of the
Munich "Pietà". Furthermore, his use of drawings on paper and parchment
will be re-evaluated in terms of their attribution, style and function.
Finally, the conference seeks to address the complex issue of
Botticelli’s painting practice in relation to production costs,
artistic competition, and social factors such as honour, friendship and
reputation. Ties of obligation, patronage, and friendship forged by
Botticelli help to explain the more immediate local realities of his
career’s development. As to his relationship with Angelo Poliziano,
attention will be drawn to the question of how Poliziano used to
communicate with those around him by means of a close examination of
his teaching methods.
Programme
Friday, June 20
11.00 Michael Kwakkelstein - "Director's welcome"
11.15 Gert Jan van der Sman (Istituto Universitario Olandese di Storia
dell'Arte) - "Introduction"
11.30 Diane Kunzelman (Opificio delle Pietre Dure, Florence) -
"Comparative technical investigation of several paintings by Sandro
Botticelli"
12.00 Maria Cristina Rodeschini (Accademia Carrara/Galleria d'Arte
Moderna
e Contemporanea di Bergamo) - "I Botticelli dell'Accademia Carrara di
Bergamo: il risultato dei recenti restauri"
12.30 Andreas Schumacher (Alte Pinakothek, Munich) - "The Pietà in
Munich: technical analysis and new findings"
13.00 Discussion
14.30 Lorenza Melli (Kunsthistorisches Institut, Florence) - "La
'Simonetta' e il suo disegno"
15.00 Jonathan Nelson (Villa I Tatti, Florence) - "Reconsidering the
'Triumph of Love' (Biblioteca Classense Ravenna) attributed 'to
Botticelli'."
15.30 Francesca Migliorini (University College, London) - "Botticelli's
illustrations for Dante's 'Comedy': some new insights into form,
'function and patronage'."
16.00 Tea/Coffee
16.30 Michelle O'Malley (University of Sussex) - "Taste, demand and the
production of quality: Botticelli after 1490"
17.00 Irene Mariani (The University of Edinburgh) - "Botticelli's 'Mars
and Venus' and the Vespucci family"
17.30 Discussion
18.00 Reception
Saturday, June 21
10.00 Alessandro Cecchi (Palazzo Pitti, Florence) - "I dipinti di
Botticelli e bottega conservati nella Galleria Palatina"
10.30 Gert Jan van der Sman (Istituto Universitario Olandese di Storia
dell'Arte) - "Botticelli's life and career in the Gonfalone
dell'Unicorno"
11.00 Tea/Coffee
11.30 Hans Körner (Heinrich Heine Universität Düsseldorf) - "'Più
femmine gnude bellissime.' Decontextualization as artistic and
'economic' strategy in the work of Sandro Botticelli."
12.00 Laura Refe (Independent scholar) - "Alla scuola di Poliziano: i
multiformi percorsi di un
insegnamento 'd'eccezione' nella Firenze del Botticelli."
12.30 Discussion and concluding remarks
This conference is funded with support from: Foundation Friends of the
Dutch Institute in Florence; and Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and
Science (KNAW)
The conference is open to the public with no charge.
Pre-registration is required to guarantee seating:
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Location: Istituto Universitario Olandese di Storia dell'Arte, viale
Torricelli 5, 50125 Florence (tel: (0039) 055 221612. Website:
niki-florence.org)
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There are some papers falling into the chronogical period covered by
this list in:
Collecting Prints & Drawings
13-15 June 2014
Schwabenakademie Irsee
Cabinets of prints and drawings belong to the earliest art collections
of Early Modern Europe. Some of them achieved astounding longevity such
as the Florentine Gabinetto Disegni e Stampe at the Uffizi. The fame
which they acquired then demanded for an ordered and scientific display.
Keepers were employed to ensure that fellow enthusiasts as well as
visiting courtiers, diplomats and also artists might have access to the
print room. Documenting an encyclopaedic approach to knowledge, prints
and drawings often depicted parts of the collection in the form of a
paper museum. They spread its fame, and with it the renown of its owner,
across Europe and into new worlds of collecting East and West.
Themes of this conference include, e.g., the importance of such
collections for the self-representation of a prince or connoisseur; the
reliability of the presentation of a gallery’s picture hang in prints
and drawings; differences in the approach to collecting, presentation
and preservation of prints and drawings in diverse parts of the world as
well as the afterlife of such collections to the present day;
institutional collecting and cultural sponsors (banks, industry,
foundations).
The programme includes two excursion. The first one takes place at the
“Graphische Sammlung” in Munich on Friday afternoon. From there we go to
Kloster Irsee together. The second one is scheduled for Sunday to the
Burg Trausnitz, Landshut. The costs of these excursions will be shown
separately in due time.
For further details, see
http://www.schwabenakademie.de/cms/programm/details/article/collecting-display/
The programme is detailed at
http://www.schwabenakademie.de/cms/uploads/media/Collecting_Prints_and_Drawings.pdf
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