Two messages from H-ARTHIST, one worrying, one interesting:


From:    Ittai Weinryb <[log in to unmask]>
Date:    Thu, 23 Feb 2006
Subject: Save Johns Hopkins' Villa Spelman

Save Johns Hopkins' Villa Spelman

To the dismay of faculty, staff and students, the administration of the
Johns Hopkins University has announced its plans to sell the Villa Spelman.

The Villa Spelman has played a pivotal role in the intellectual life of
Florence for over twenty five years, hosting weekly Italian Studies
seminars led by the finest scholars from around the world and frequent
conferences whose published proceedings represent cutting-edge research on
Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque studies. The sale puts at risk this
celebrated program and the many other projects associated with the Villa
Spelman. Upon receiving the announcement that the Villa Spelman is to be
sold, Walter Stephens, Director since 2001, resigned in protest. Please
sign the online petition:
<http://www.PetitionOnline.com/spelman/petition.html> to save the Villa
Spelman.


Ittai Weinryb
268 Mergenthaler Hall
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, MD 21218


From:    Jana Graul <[log in to unmask]>
Date:    Tue, 21 Feb 2006
Subject: CONF: Dono, merce, bottino (Firenze, 9-12 Mar 06)

Convegno internazionale

Dono, merce, bottino.
Itinerari e fortuna di opere d’arte islamiche in Italia e nel
mediterraneo, dal 1250 al 1500

Gift, Good, Theft.
Circulation and Reception of Islamic Objects in Italy and the
Mediterranean World, 1250–1500


Convegno internazionale a cura di
Catarina Schmidt Arcangeli e Gerhard Wolf

9–12 marzo 2006

Kunsthistorisches Institut Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut
Via Giuseppe Giusti 38 – 50121 Firenze



Giovedì, 9 marzo 2006

18.00 Conferenza di apertura

Avinoam Shalem (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München)
If Objects could speak: The Amazing Biographies of Islamic Objects in
Christian Context



Venerdì, 10 marzo 2006

9.15
Gerhard Wolf
Saluto

9.30
Catarina Schmidt Arcangeli
“Cose belle sulle vie da mar” – Introduzione



Il commercio di oggetti islamici/
Trading Islamic Objects

10.00
David Jacoby (Hebrew University, Jerusalem)
Oriental Silks Go to West: a Declining Trade in the Late Middle Ages

10.45 Pausa

11.00
Marco Spallanzani (Università degli Studi, Firenze)
Tappeti orientali a Firenze nel Rinascimento

11.45
Anna Contadini (School of Oriental and African Studies, University of 
London)
Glitter and Colour: Acquisition, Reception and Transformation of Islamic
Art in the West

12.30 Pranzo



Oggetti islamici: doni preziosi/
Islamic Objects: Precious Gifts

14.00
Stefano Carboni (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)
Glass, Goods and Gifts: the Circulation of Islamic Glass in Italy

14.45
Anthony Cutler (Penn State University)
Thus Do the Laws of our Fathers Teach us: The Gifts of al-Kamil in their
Mediterranean Context

15.30 Pausa

15.45
Giovanni D´Erme (Università degli Studi “L’Orientale”, Napoli)
Facies pubblica e facies privata della regalità nel mondo iranico e negli
ambienti aperti alle sue influenze

16.30
Giovanni Curatola (Università degli Studi, Udine)
Marin Sanudo, Venezia, i doni diplomatici e le merci orientali islamiche


Sabato, 11 marzo 2006

Arte islamica in contesti “diversi”/
Islamic Art in “other” Contexts

9.30
Marita Vittoria Fontana (Università degli Studi “La Sapienza”, Roma)
L´incontro di Muhammed e Khadija nelle illustrazioni del codice Vaticano
Latino 1960

10.15
Joško Belamarić (Ministero della Cultura, Soprintendenza Regionale per la
Tutela dei Beni Culturali, Split)
La percezione dell´Islam sulla costa orientale del Mar Adriatico: dal
Medioevo al Rinascimento

11.00 Pausa

11.30
Fernando Valdes Fernandez (Unversitad Autonoma, Madrid)
Manufacturas palatinas, objectos de corte, regalos de embajada en la
Cordoba omeya

12.15
Florence Moly (Kunsthistorisches Institut, Firenze)
Scienza araba tra Baghdad, Palermo e Cordova: studi naturalistici nei
codici miniati del XIII° secolo

13.00 Pranzo
Imitazione e trasformazione di oggetti islamici/ Emulation and Alienation
of Islamic Objects

14.30
Claus-Peter Haase (Museum für Islamische Kunst, Berlin)
Quoting Oriental Style: Observations on the Imitation Criteria in the Arts
from the Duecento to the Quattrocento

15.15
Sylvia Auld (University Middle Eastern Studies, Edinburgh)
Circles of Correspondence: Exploring Links between East and West in the
13th Century

16.00 Pausa

16.15
Turgut Saner (Technical University, Istanbul)
Circulation of Architectural Motifs in Medieval Anatolia

17.00
Michele Bernardini (Università degli Studi “L’Orientale”, Napoli)
Dal Mongolo di Subiaco a Tamerlano: storia di un mutamento iconografico


Domenica, 12 marzo 2006

Ricezione e rappresentazione di oggetti islamici/
Reception and Representation of Islamic Objects

9.00
Trinita Kennedy (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)
“in questa inclita cita`de Venezia de far bone et optime lavori di ogni
sorte de porzelane chome sono quele de Levante transparenti”: Venice as
Marketplace for Imitation of Islamic Ceramics

9.45
Gisela Helmecke (Museum für Islamische Kunst, Berlin)
Die Zentren islamischer Textilkunst in Sizilien und Süditalien, ihre
Erzeugnisse und ihre Rezeption

10.30 Pausa

11.00
Almut Goldhahn (Deutsches Studienzentrum, Venedig)
Den Teppich im Blick: orientalische Knüpfteppiche und ihre Darstellungen
auf venezianischen Madonnenbildern des 15. Jahrhunderts

11.45
Alberto Saviello (Kunsthistorisches Institut, Firenze)
“A beautiful Stranger”? – El Gran Turco and Early Images of the Ottoman
Sultan Mehemd II

12.30
Ulrike Ilg (Firenze/ Justus-Liebig-Universität, Giessen)
“On the Difficulties of Portraying a real” Turk – Some Reflections of
Ethnographic Orientalism in European Art from the 14th to the 16th Century

Conclusione



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Sede:
Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz
Max-Planck-Institut
Via Giuseppe Giusti 38
I-50121 Firenze

Contatto:
Maja Haederli
Tel. (+39) 055 2491122 – Fax (+39) 055 2479663
E-mail [log in to unmask]
Dr. Catarina Schmidt Arcangeli
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