Successive epochs and clear geographical boundaries have determined the coordinate system of art history for centuries. With it, museum collections can be structured and university chairs or Separate professorships from each other. Individual research profiles are also usually aligned with these coordinates.
Current approaches such as gender, queer and postcolonial studies, perspectives of global art history, network research and ecocritical questions, on the other hand, problematize precisely these boundaries, cross them and focus on blind spots.
Starting from a clearly defined place in the coordinate system of art – Early Modern Times, Italy – we would therefore like to address the following questions in the event:
How do art historians take up transversal aspects in their research, how do they implement them methodically in the specific case? How do museums (re)act in this field? How do students find their way with current methodological positions in a mixture of epochal and country art history, and what is the importance of the art of the early modern period from Italy?
Five reports from current research projects and from museum practice provide impetus for the discussion of these questions. Colleagues and students are cordially invited to the event! Registration is not necessary.
// Program
Friday, May 9, 2025
09:30
Helen Barr: Introduction
10:00 a.m.
Helen Buddensieg: Who cares? About the cooperation of legnaioli and Correggio
10:45
Clara Nicolay: The aesthetics of the performative. Lorenzo Lippi’s drawings
11:30
Coffee break
12:00 p.m.
Malena Rotter: Dialogue and Difference. Museum views on the early modern period
12:45
Lunch break
2:00 p.m.
Katharina Bedenbender: Viriditas in times of Catholic reform: On the importance of the
Trees at Federico Borromeo
14:45
Julia Saviello: Art in and with Nature. The chiostro maiolicato by S. Chiara in
Naples
15:30
Poster and coffee break
16:30
Final discussion
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N 47°33’7.536” O 7°35’28.398” = Coordinates of the Historical Museum Basel. There is Jacob Burckhardt’s desk.
Reference:
CONF: N 47°33’7.536” O 7°35’28.398”. Re:turn to Italy (Frankfurt, 9. May 2025). In: ArtHist.net, Apr 22, 2025 (accessed Apr 23, 2025), <arthist.net/archive/47296>
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