ANN: Call for Applications 2023/24, Villa I Tatti, The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies (Settignano / Florence)
I Tatti, The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies in Florence, Italy, warmly invites applications for the 2023–2024 academic year. We offer the following eleven fellowships (n.b. deadlines vary):
ANN: Seminario – Il mestiere del conoscitore, Bernard Berenson, Herbert Horne, Roger Fry: Firenze-Londra 1900 (Bologna / Firenze, 20-23 Sep 2022)
All’esordio del XX secolo, nell’ambiente londinese e anglo-sassone in genere, in un intreccio fitto di relazioni verso la Toscana e verso gli Stati Uniti, fra ricerche, editoria, letteratura, fotografia, mercato, collezionismo e musei,…
ANN: Botticelli on Tour: Italian Old Master Exhibitions in the 1930s between Publicity and Propaganda, lecture by Matilde Cartolari (Forum Kunst und Markt, 27 Jun 2022 18:15 CEST, online)
In January 1930, the great anthological exhibition Italian Art 1200-1900 opened at the Royal Academy of London under the auspices of Benito Mussolini’s government. The exhibition received wide popular acclaim, attracting some 450,000 visitors in less…
CFP: Max Liebermann and Italy in the context of German-Italian artistic exchange from the 1860s to the 1930s (Liebermann Villa, Berlin & Casa di Goethe, Rome, Spring 2023)
As the leading museum and centre of research on Max Liebermann (1847-1935) the Liebermann-Villa am Wannsee is planning an exhibition project “Max Liebermann and Italy” (WT) for 2024. This project, carried out in collaboration…
CONF: Why are we still looking for Nazi-looted art in Italy? The importance of provenance research and negotiated solutions (Venice, Ateneo Veneto, 25 Mar 2022; also online)
The objective of this conference is to raise awareness of Nazi-looted art in Italy, emphasizing the urgent need of provenance research in Italian art collections and offering practical solutions to those who in the years…
ANN: Spoliation and Recovery of Art and Antiquities from Italy (The Society for the History of Collecting/Online, 22 Mar 2022, 3pm GMT)
As Italy’s artistic heritage, both antiquities and fine art, has been hardest hit by the illicit art trade, these papers will focus on the country’s historic spoliation during the Renaissance, Napoleonic and Grand…
ANN: Erased Memories: Italian colonialism and its material legacies; Lecture (Istituto Svizzero, Rome / online; 28 Jan 2022, 18:00 CET; in Italian)
Memorie cancellate: il colonialismo italiano e le sue eredità materiali Sebbene gli studiosi abbiano a lungo denunciato il silenzio che ha caratterizzato lo studio del passato coloniale dell’Italia, il revisionismo storico fatica a…
CFP: Art Across the Iberian World. Connecting Spanish Italy and Latin America (University of Zurich, 6-8 Oct 2022)
For a long stretch of time, both Southern Italy—the Kingdoms of Naples and Sicily—and Latin America were entangled in the same colonial system. Still, art historians have discussed these entanglements largely independently. This…
TIAMSA Member News: ANN: Clarissa Ricci & Marie Tavinor, “Art, Market and Agency at the Venice Biennale, 1895-1993” available for free download until 31 Jan 2022 (Journal of Modern Italian Studies, Vol. 26, n. 4, 2021)
Free Access until 31 January 2022: https://bit.ly/volume26-issue4 This special issue focuses on one of the most longstanding, international, and large scale exhibitions: the Venice Biennale. The keywords ‘art’, ‘agency’ and ‘market’ act as methodological pathways to…