CFP: The Medici and the Courts of Central and Eastern Europe (The Medici Archive Project, Florence, 7 Feb 2025)
Communication between courts and cities could be achieved by several means, including the exchange of objects, artists, diplomats and news. Exchange was rarely a linear back-and-forth but could follow all sorts of patterns….
CFP: The Mutability of Collections: Transformation, Contextualisation and Re-Interpretation (Seminar on Collecting & Display, Institute of Historical Research, University of London, 7-8 July 2023)
We invite proposals for papers reflecting on the ways in which the contents of collections are not permanent but may be subject to numerous mutations. Objects in collections are added, exchanged or disposed of, translated and…
CONF: The Medici Beyond Florence. Art and Politics (Florence/online, 16-17 Mar 2022)
The conference investigates the history and culture of the Medici family through art collecting and patronage practices, from the beginning of the ducal era (1530) to the end of the Thirty Year’s War (1648)….
CONF: Amsterdam and Rembrandt: New Research (online / National Gallery of Canada, 16 June 2021, 11am-1pm EDT)
The Rembrandt in Amsterdam exhibition traces the central decades of Rembrandt’s career, from his arrival in Amsterdam to the emergence of his late style in the mid-1650s, in the transformative context of the dynamic city that…
ANN: Online Lectures Series The Medici and Their Archives: Artistic Patronage and Diplomacy (6-11 Jul 2020)
The Medici Archive Project is pleased to announce the free Online Lectures Series The Medici and Their Archives: Artistic Patronage and Diplomacy, that will be held on Zoom, 6-11 July 2020. Although the series will be…