italian-studies: Scholarly discussions in any field of Italian studies
Dear all,
The Venetian Seminar, an annual one-day conference on Venetian studies, will take place on Saturday 16 May, at the Sainsbury Institute for Art, University of East Anglia, kindly hosted by Professor Bronwen Wilson. The programme for the Seminar is as follows:
10.30am: Coffee
11am: Maya Corry (Cambridge) - 'Artistic strategies for guiding devotion: background landscapes and sleeping shepherds in the works of Bellini and the Belliniani'; Marco Faini (Cambridge) - 'Domestic devotion, artistic patronage and politics in early Cinquecento Venice: Giovanni Girolamo Savoldo and the Contarini family'; Alessia Meneghin (Cambridge) - 'The Miracles of the Holy Virgin of the 'Rotonda' Church in sixteenth-century Rovigo'.
12.30pm: Lunch
2pm: Fabio Antonini (Birkbeck) - '"Here resides the 'matrix' of history": Venetian historians in the early modern state chancery'; Jola Pellumbi (KCL) - 'Embodying the Republic: Senatorial Dress in Sixteenth-Century Venice'
3.30pm: Tea
4pm: Elsje van Kessel (St Andrews) - 'Displaying the City: Venetian Street Exhibitions from San Marco to Rialto and Beyond'; Bronwen Wilson (UEA) - 'Marco Boschini's Island Navigations'
For further details, including information about travel and accommodation, please see:
https://leeds.academia.edu/VenetianSeminar
All welcome. There is no registration fee and lunch is provided. Please email [log in to unmask] if you plan to attend.
Dr Alexandra Bamji, University of Leeds
Dr Filippo de Vivo, Birkbeck, University of London
Dr Mary Laven, University of Cambridge
Convenors, Venetian Seminar
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