There is much of interest to this list in the most recent issue sof teh
Italian Art Society's newsletter:
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*EXHIBITIONS*
La nascita dell’arazzeria medicea. Dalle botteghe
dei maestri fiamminghi alla manifattura ducale dei
“Creati fiorentini”
7 April-28 September, 2008
Galleria del Costume, Palazzino della Meridiana, Firenze
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I Medici e le scienze: Strumenti e macchine nelle
collezioni granducali
15 May 2008-11 January 2009
Museo degli Argenti, Firenze
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The Triumph of Marriage: Painted Cassoni of the
Renaissance
October 16, 2008 – January 18, 2009, Isabella Stewart Gardner
Museum, Boston, Massachusetts
February 14-May 17, 2009, John and Mable Ringling Museum
of Art, Sarasota, Florida
The Triumph of Marriage exhibition is devoted to cassoni
painted in Tuscany during the fifteenth century. Curated by
Cristelle Baskins, the exhibition, catalogue and accompanying
symposium (see page 10 for the symposium schedule) connect
cassoni with issues of gender and family, literature and politics.
Often painted with historical and allegorical scenes, these
chests—luxury objects in their own right—were paraded
through the streets like trophies when the bride moved into the
house of her new husband. But cassoni did more than enhance
the status of families. The narrative paintings linked marriage to
history, civic values, and the roles appropriate to husband and
wife. Cassoni are now recognized as indispensable to the revival
of ancient culture as it engaged with the ideals and anxieties of
Renaissance society. The exhibition reunites several cassoni that
were originally commissioned as pairs. Through renewed study
of the narratives frequently sustained across the surfaces of two
cassoni, we can better appreciate that stories of triumph lie at
the heart of Renaissance weddings. The panels also comment on
civic spectacles, the parades and processions of the feast days,
the annual Palio in Florence and Siena or Emperor Frederick
III’s triumphal entries into Italian cities. Cassoni merit close
attention as brilliant exemplars of pictorial drama. Aside from a
repertory of figural types, gestures and settings, cassoni offered
an opportunity to develop unusual subjects in new formats. The
exhibition and its programs are sponsored by The Andrew W.
Mellon Foundation and the Samuel H. Kress Foundation.
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Art and Love in Renaissance Italy
November 18, 2008–February 16, 2009
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Special Exhibition
Galleries, 2nd floor
March 15-June 14, 2009, Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth
This exhibition will explore the various exceptional objects
created to celebrate and commemorate love and marriage in
the Italian Renaissance. The approximately 150 objects,
which date from around 1400 to 1600, range widely; they
encompass exquisite examples of maiolica and jewelry,
childbirth trays and bowls and marriage chests and
glassware, and works on paper and paintings, many of which
extol the more sensual aspects of love and fecundity. An
extensive programming schedule will include several
lectures and concerts; further information will be posted at:
http://metmuseum.org/special/se_event.asp?OccurrenceId=
%7B49F931E9-1441-4A0D-8387-D91D9F2EAC5A%7D
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The Triumph of Marriage: A Symposium on
Renaissance Cassoni
Friday, November 7 (keynote lecture), 6:30pm
Saturday, November 8 (symposium), 10am–5pm, followed
by a private reception
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
This exhibition symposium considers issues surrounding
Renaissance cassoni, marriage, and the motif of triumph.
Revived and transformed in the Renaissance, images of
ancient military triumph offered a model for public
celebration with parade floats and processions. Triumph was
also a poetic motif used as allegory in works such as
Petrarch’s famous poem, The Triumphs, which itself became
a popular subject in art celebrating marriage. The speakers
will approach Renaissance marriage and triumphal imagery
from a variety of disciplines, including history, art history,
and literature.
Friday, November 7, 6:30 pm
Keynote Lecture
Cristelle Baskins, Tufts University: “The Triumph of
Cassoni”
Nerida Newbigin, University of Sydney: “No imperial
majesty: Frederick III in Florence and Rome”
Saturday, November 8, 10 am–5 pm,
Symposium and Reception
Lilian Armstrong, Wellesley College: “Triumphs and Love
in North Italian Renaissance Books”
Roberta Bartoli, Kunsthistorisches Institut, Florence:
“Sacred Feasts and Social Rituals: Images of Banquets in
'Cassone' and 'Spalliera' Painting”
Caroline Campbell, Courtauld Gallery: “...favole tolte da
Ovidio: The Transformation of Ovid’s Metamorphoses on
Florentine Cassoni”
Philine Helas, Biblioteca Hertziana: “The Triumph of
Alfonso d'Aragona in Naples 1443: From Living Images to
Pictorial Representations”
Philip Jacks, George Washington University: “La Giostra in
Piazza: Courtly Pageantry on Florentine Cassoni"
Jacqueline Marie Musacchio, Wellesley College: “Beauty,
Fertility, Piety, and Duty: Marriage Chests and their
Contents in Renaissance Florence"
Sharon Strocchia, Emory University: “A Marriage Made in
Heaven: Ritual Unions of Bishops and Abbesses in Renaissance
Italy”
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*CALLS FOR PAPERS*
Italian Art Society-Sponsored Sessions, Kalamazoo 2009
Performance, Performativity and Italian Arts: Church,
Cloister, City and Court
These four linked sessions deal with performance and
performative acts that focus on or are focused by works of art.
They are structured around four broadly construed spatial
zones—the church, the cloister, the city [and contado], and the
court. We seek papers that explore performance and performativity
in all their possible manifestations, including, but by no
means limited to, religious rituals (church consecrations, Easter
dramas, penance), civic rituals (ceremonial entries, public trials
or punishments, apotropaic processions), personal rituals (marriage,
birth, death, penance, prayer), cultural productions (dance,
music, theater), or the acts of commissioning and producing
works of art. Each paper should explore an interconnection
between performance and the visual or architectural arts,
elucidating the ontologies, meanings, and functions of works of
art that are performed upon or perform within these varied yet
intertwined religious and secular realms.
Performance, Performativity and Italian Art: Church,
Presider - Nicola Camerlenghi, Louisiana State University
Performance, Performativity and Italian Art: Cloister,
Presider - Alison Perchuk, Yale University
Performance, Performativity and Italian Art: City, Presider
- Catherine McCurrach, Wayne State University
Performance, Performativity and Italian Art: Court,
Presider - Joyce Kubiski, Western Michigan University
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Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance
Studies Conference 2009
http://www.asu.edu/clas/acmrs/conferences/conferences.html
ACMRS invites session and paper proposals for its annual
interdisciplinary conference to be held 12–14 February 2009
in Tempe, Arizona. We welcome papers that explore any
topic related to the study and teaching of the Middle Ages
and Renaissance, and especially those that focus on this
year’s theme of the five senses, both in its literal and
metaphorical manifestations. The deadline for proposals is
5:00 p.m. Mountain Standard Time on 15 October 2008.
Proposals must include audio/visual requirements and any
other special requests. Subsequent a/v requests may not be
honored without additional charge. In order to streamline the
committee review process, submissions will only be
accepted at http://link.library.utoronto.ca/acmrs/conference/
from 1 May through 15 October 2008. Questions? Call 480-
965-9323 or email [log in to unmask]
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South Central Renaissance Conference: Exploring
the Renaissance 2009
March 5-7, 2009, Hot Springs, Arkansas
http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~nydam/scrc/cfp_scrc2009.shtml
Papers (15-20 minutes in length) are invited on any aspect of
Renaissance studies (history, art history, literature, music,
philosophy, science, theology). Abstracts only (400-500
words; a shorter 100-word abstract for inclusion in the
program) must be submitted online no later than December
1, 2008 via the SCRC website's abstract submission form.
Sessions: sessions should be proposed no later than
November 1, 2008 and e-mailed to the Program Chair (link
given in the conference website above). Abstracts of papers
for approved sessions should be submitted online via the
SCRC website's abstract form.
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Sixteenth Century Society Conference 2009
The Sixteenth Century Society and Conference (SCSC) is now
accepting proposals for individual papers and complete sessions
for its annual conference, to be held at the Crowne Plaza Hotel
Geneva (Switzerland) from 28-30 May 2009. Beginning August
1, 2008 proposals with abstracts (up to 200 words in length) for
papers and complete sessions for the SCSC meeting should be
submitted online at:
http://www.sixteenthcentury.org/conf_proposals.shtml
For more information, contact: Jeffrey R. Watt, SCSC 2009
Program Chair, at: [log in to unmask]
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Foundations of Modernity, Yale University
Foundations of Modernity: A Graduate Symposium on the
Italian Renaissance at Yale University, April 3-5, 2009. Please
submit an anonymous abstract (no longer than 250 words) and,
on a different page, a cover sheet with the title of your paper,
your name, affiliation, and contact information (including
telephone and e-mail address). Kindly send this information as
a Microsoft Word file attachment to:
[log in to unmask] by November 15, 2008.
Future information will be available on the events webpage of
the Yale Italian Department as the symposium draws nearer:
http://www.yale.edu/italian/news/index.html
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*TRAVEL GRANTS*
Italian Art Society Travel Grants
The Italian Art Society is pleased to announce a competition for
two grants of $500 each to support travel to:
1) the College Art Association in Los Angeles in
February 2009 and
2) the International Congress for Medieval Studies in
Kalamazoo in May 2009
This competition is open to PhD students or recent PhD
recipients (within three years of the degree) presenting a paper
at these conferences about the art or architecture of ancient to
contemporary Italy.
Please send an introductory letter about your paper with your
IAS membership status, your current c.v., your paper abstract
with session title and chair information, a preliminary budget, a
description of other possible travel funding sources, and contact
data for your academic advisor as a single Word or PDF
document (with last name in title) via email to the Chair of the
IAS Travel Committee, Cathleen Fleck, at
[log in to unmask] The deadline for both grant
applications is 1 November 2008. Award notification will be
by 1 December.
The IAS expects each grant recipient to become a member and
to attend our business meeting at the relevant conference. For
membership see:
http://www.italianartsociety.org/membership.html.
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