“La chiesa e il convento di Santa Maria dei Servi a Venezia. Aggiornamenti e nuove ricerche”
(“Chiese di Venezia, Nuove prospettive di ricerca”, 8, director: Gianmario Guidarelli), cur. by Eveline Baseggio, Tiziana Franco and Luca Molà.
Venice, Casa Studentesca Santa Fosca, Cappella dei Lucchesi (Cannaregio, 2372), 16-17 September 2021
Registration deadline: 18 September 2021
When the Servites arrived in Venice in 1314 they were a small religious community. In 1330 they began the foundation of their mother church, Santa Maria dei Servi, a monumental Gothic construction which extended for three quarters of the Servite island and whose massive proportions are still perceivable in Jacopo de Barbari’s View of Venice (1500). Once completed around mid-sixteenth century, Santa Maria dei Servi could be compared for its architectural magnificence and its splendid furnishings to the main churches of the other Mendicant Orders, first and foremost the Dominican Santi Giovanni e Paolo and the Franciscan Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari. What remains of the Servite Church today is a pale memory of its past grandeur. After the fall of the Republic of Venice and the subsequent Napoleonic suppressions, Santa Maria dei Servi was slowly torn down, its altars dismantled or sold in pieces, and all the paintings and sculptures either lost or disseminated in Venice or elsewhere. Fragments of the perimeter’s walls, two portals, and the outer shell of the Chapel of Lucchesi merged with the Institute Canal-Marovich. In December 2020 a conference, which was organized online due to the pandemic, had begun a broad discussion about the events surrounding the church and the convent, once a florid cultural center and pole of attraction of the Venetian intellectual community up until the Napoleonic suppresion and the subsequent dispersion of the artworks. During the upcoming meeting, thanks to new contributions made possible by the partial reopening of archives and libraries, and especially by the direct contact with what survives of the church complex, the goal is to reopen the multidisciplinary discussion about one the most remarkable Venetian religious contexts.
PROGRAM
16, September, 10.00-13.15
1 SESSION “L’insediamento dei Servi”
10.00-10.15: Welcome
10.15-10.45: Introduction, Eveline Baseggio Omiccioli, Tiziana Franco, Luca Molà
10.45-11.15: Ermes Ronchi (Pontificia facoltà teologica "Marianum", Roma), “Introduzione alla spiritualità dei Servi”
11.15-11.45: Emanuele Carletti (Università degli studi di Roma Tre), “Studium e vita culturale dei Servi di Maria a Venezia tra XIV e XV secolo”
11.45 Discussion with con Raffaella Citeroni (Padova)
12.00-12.15: break
2 SESSION “La cappella e la Scuola dei Lucchesi”
12.15-12.45: Luca Molà (Warwick University), “La Scuola del Volto Santo e i suoi Rettori: un profilo economico e sociale”
12.45-13.15 discussion with Valentina Baradel (Università degli studi di Padova)
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16, September, 15.00-18.00
3 SESSION “La chiesa, il convento e i suoi arredi”
15.00-15.30: Davide Tramarin (Università degli studi di Padova), “Santa Maria dei Servi. L’architettura della chiesa e del convento nel contesto della Venezia tardogotica”
15.30-16.00: Eveline Baseggio Omiccioli (Fashion Institute of Technology, NY), “Una nuova funzione per il tramezzo ai Servi? Girolamo Donato e la musica”
16.00-16.15: break
16.15-16.45: Marco Massoni (Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa), “La Congregazione dell’Osservanza in Santa Maria dei Servi a Venezia nel contesto artistico dei Servi di Maria tra Umanesimo e Maniera moderna (1476-1570)”
16.45-18.00 discussion
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17, September, 10.00-12.30
4 SESSION “Sessione in situ, chiesa e convento"
Participants: Gianmario Guidarelli (Università degli Studi di Padova), Valentina Baradel (Università degli studi di Padova), Eveline Baseggio (Fashion Institute of Technology, NY), Tiziana Franco (Università degli studi di Verona), Nora Gietz (Warwick University), Luca Molà (Warwick University), Davide Tramarin (Università degli studi di Padova), Francesco Trovò (Soprintendenza APAB per il comune di Venezia e Laguna), Elisabetta Secco (Bassano del Grappa), Angela Squassina (Università Iuav di Venezia)
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17, September 15.00-18.00
5 SESSION “I Servi nei documenti e come centro culturale"
15.00-15.30: Alessandra Schiavon (Archivio di Stato di Venezia), “Santa Maria dei Servi: un percorso di ricerca archivistica”
15.30-16.00: Tiziana Franco (Università degli studi di Verona), “Le tombe di epoca medievale. Aggiornamenti”.
16:00-16.30: Chiara Bombardini (Università degli studi di Padova), “Santa Maria dei Servi nei manoscritti di Pietro Gradenigo (1695-1776): disegni e notizie”
16.30-17.00: Amy Namowitz Worthen (Des Moines Art Center), “Borro’s scholarly network and the convent’s library resources”
17.00-17.15: break
17.15-18.00 PANEL DISCUSSION
Participants: Eveline Baseggio Omiccioli (Fashion Institute of Technology, NY), Tiziana Franco (Università degli studi di Verona), Eloise Davies (Pembroke College, University of Oxford), Alessia Giachery (Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, Venezia), Manlio Leo Mezzacasa (Università degli studi di Padova), Valentina Sapienza (Università Ca’ Foscari, Venezia), Deborah Walberg (Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania).
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The conference will take place in attendance in compliance with anti-Covid. Access in attendance at the conference is limited: to attend the sessions in attendance which will take place in the Cappella dei Lucchesi is necessary register here: https://www.chiesedivenezia.eu/project/la-chiesa-di-santa-maria-dei-servi-16-17-settembre-2021/
To participate in the morning "in situ" session on Friday 17th September it is necessary to book in person during the conference sessions the day before. It will be possible to follow the conference live also via webinar by connecting freely without reservation, at this link:https://www.chiesedivenezia.eu/project/la-chiesa-di-santa-maria-dei-servi-16-17-settembre-2021/
The sessions will be recorded and will also be visible recorded on the youtube channel of the “Chiese di Venezia ": to the links accessible from here: https: //www.chiesedivenezia.eu
For information: https: //www.chiesedivenezia.eu
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57th International Congress on Medieval Studies
Kalamazoo
9-14 May 9–14
The International Center of Medieval Art is sponsoring three sessions on late-medieval Naples at the 57th International Congress on Medieval Studies (Kalamazoo, May 9 – 14, 2022)
Naples and Beyond: World-Wide Cultural Networks
The city and the kingdom of Naples in the late medieval period have attracted much exciting scholarly attention in the last two decades. No longer swayed by Vasari’s bitter commentary on Naples, recent research has been applying new methods and new digital technology to understand the city and its environs. This double session on Naples seeks to build on this recent scholarship by considering Naples as a world city and center of cultural production whose art, artists, and architecture were not only distinct but also influential beyond the boundaries of the kingdom of Naples to the wider Mediterranean, Europe, and other continents between c.1250 and c.1435.
Since the International Congress on Medieval Studies will be run virtually in 2022, the ICMA (via a Samuel H. Kress Foundation grant) will cover the conference fees of those participating in the ICMA-sponsored session(s). Participants will be required to be members of the ICMA at the time of the conference (May 2022).
Please submit abstracts no later than 15 September through the ICMS Confex site at https://icms.confex.com/icms/2022am/cfp.cgi. We will send out notifications in the latter half of September.
Within Naples: The City and the Regno c. 1250-1435
The only monarchy in Italy, Naples had a unique position in contrast to the many city-states of northern Italy. A powerful fiefdom of the papacy with a firm military and political grip over the entire peninsula during the fourteenth century, how did that powerful position manifest itself in art, architecture, and material culture? If Naples should be considered not on the periphery of mainstream Italian art but a center of it, then what aspects allow us to consider it as such?
Please submit proposals that consider, but are not limited to, the following questions:
- Representations of kingship/queenship and themes of personal and dynastic glorification
- Patronage of religious orders
- Medieval topography of Naples, including digital mapping or reconstruction/ maps as palimpsests
- Local saints and pilgrimage; nuns, religious leaders/preachers in Angevin Naples
- Importation of artists (painters, architects, goldsmiths, sculptors, scribes and illuminators) – materials and materiality
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Beyond Naples: Angevin Naples and its Reach beyond the Regno c. 1250-1435
A port city, Naples was a complex site of artistic mobility and exchange during the medieval period. What impact did the art and artists of late medieval Naples have on the global stage? And equally, what impact did the wider connected world have on Naples?
Please submit proposals that consider, but are not limited to, the following questions:
- The movement of art, other objects of material culture, and artistic materials between Naples and the wider Mediterranean and beyond
- Trade, especially maritime trade, as a trigger of cultural and artistic innovation
- Royal, diplomatic, cultural, commercial, and artistic relationships between Naples and other Italian city states, the wider Mediterranean, Europe, Africa, and Asia
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New Approaches to the Art and Architecture of Angevin and Aragonese Naples (1265-1458)
Sponsored by the Student Committee of the International Center of Medieval Art at the 57th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, May 9 – 14, 2022
The city and kingdom of Naples occupied a central place in late-medieval Mediterranean life: it was a powerful kingdom with deep connections to the French throne; it controlled vast territories throughout Italy in service to the papacy; and its many ports welcomed goods arriving from the Levant, north Africa, and western Europe. Despite this importance during the medieval period the city has been, generally, overshadowed by other cities such as Rome, Florence, and Venice in academic discourse. Nevertheless, the city has been interrogated in recent decades by many prominent European and American art historians who have expanded our understanding of Neapolitan art patronage and devotional images during the trecento and quattrocento, including Francesco Aceto, Nicolas Bock, Caroline Bruzelius, Bianca de Divitiis, Stefano D’Ovidio, Janis Elliott, Cathleen Fleck, Adrian Hoch, Pierluigi Leone de Castris, Vinni Lucherini, Tanja Michalsky, Alessandra Perriccioli Saggese, Elisabetta Scirocco, Paola Vitolo, Cordelia Warr, and Sarah Wilkins, to name a few.
This panel invites submissions from students that will build on recent scholarship and examine the relationship between the art, artists, and architecture of late-medieval Naples and the wider connected world. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: the movement of material and visual culture between Naples, the wider Mediterranean, and beyond; the movement of people, including patrons, artists, and craftsmen, between Naples and the wider connected world; the impact of trade to or from Naples; diplomatic, political, commercial, artistic, and cultural exchanges and interactions and their effects within and beyond Naples; the role of women as patrons, rulers, nuns, and powerbrokers in Naples; dress and comportment; the textile arts; portolan atlases; trade between Naples and other cities, including, but not limited to, Florence, London, Paris, Rome, Tunis, or Jerusalem.
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A good abstract will state the topic and argument and will inform specialists in the field of what is new about the research. Generalities known to everyone, or research that a scholar intends to do but has not yet begun, are not appropriate. Please keep in mind that, if selected, your abstract will be used, as is, for the online program and conference app.
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