Call for papers
Renaissance Society of America,
Annual Meeting 2010, April 8-10,
Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Isola San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice
Session: From the Anchor to the Crow's Nest: Ships and naval imagery in
Renaissance Art
Ships in all epochs since Antiquity have played important roles in
European art. This is true not only for the big harbor cities like
Hamburg and Bremen, Le Havre and Marseille, Lisbon and Seville, Brindisi
and Rome, Genoa and Venice. The transition from Antiquity to the Middle
Ages marked an important evolution from the secular to the sacred, in
which the powerful antique image of the ship of state was adopted for
religious purposes. Without any doubt, the "Ship of State" is the most
important ship metaphor. But this focused approach to ships in art
tends to gloss over the complexity of the topic in its diversity of
artistic meanings and functions.
One or two panels will explore what impact ships had on art produced in
Early Modern Europe. Questions to be considered include: How did
nautical imagery mirror war or peaceful times? How and where did ships
serve for the propagandistic use of rulers and powerful persons? Was
there a "renaissance" of antique ship types or do medieval images and
contemporary ship designs dominate Renaissance art production? In what
ways is the ship a symbol of the "Age of Discovery", economic power,
struggle and war? Possible topics from architecture and sculpture as
well as painting and the graphic arts include: the "Ship of State" and
shipwrecks, fountains with naval imagery and "ship monuments" in their
relationship to history and politics, economics, literature and
philosophy.
Please submit your abstract (no more than 150 words) and a short CV no
later than April 30, 2009 to:
Dr. Nicole Hegener, Institut für Kunst- und Bildgeschichte,
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, [log in to unmask] and
Dr. George Gorse, Art & Art History Department, Pomona College,
Claremont, CA, 91711 [log in to unmask]
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