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The Medici Archive Project
Добавлен 27 мар 2024
The Medici Archive Project (MAP) is an independent research institute based in Florence whose aim is to preserve and valorize the archives of the Medici dynasty, which comprise over fifteen million documents (many of them are featured in the MIA DATABASE). MAP also serves as a major academic hub for scholars and students worldwide in the field of Italian Renaissance and early modern studies.
Ada Palmer, Elizabeth Pilliod, John T. Spike - THE ART OF NEGOZIO
THE ART OF NEGOZIO - 6June 2024
Renaissance Genius? A Roundtable discussion (Part 1)
One can easily admit that the term GENIUS has been abused by contemporary society. Nowadays, child prodigies, tech moguls, athletes-not to speak of influencers and internet gurus-are too often and too hastily elevated to this status. Elon Musk, Sabrina Gonzalez Pasterski, Roger Federer, and Jordan Peterson are considered, by some, geniuses (as were Bernie Madoff and Elizabeth Holmes, before reality finally caught up with them). In the previous centuries, such a title was assigned primarily to scientists, philosophers, and musicians. Notable examples are Blaise Pascal, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, John Stuart Mi...
Renaissance Genius? A Roundtable discussion (Part 1)
One can easily admit that the term GENIUS has been abused by contemporary society. Nowadays, child prodigies, tech moguls, athletes-not to speak of influencers and internet gurus-are too often and too hastily elevated to this status. Elon Musk, Sabrina Gonzalez Pasterski, Roger Federer, and Jordan Peterson are considered, by some, geniuses (as were Bernie Madoff and Elizabeth Holmes, before reality finally caught up with them). In the previous centuries, such a title was assigned primarily to scientists, philosophers, and musicians. Notable examples are Blaise Pascal, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, John Stuart Mi...
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George Lasry, Marcello Simonetta - THE ART OF NEGOZIO
Просмотров 2014 дней назад
THE ART OF NEGOZIO - 27 November 2024 Renaissance Ciphers: Secrecy and Security. How did the Medici protect confidential information? The use of cryptography, or code-writing for secrecy and security purposes, was very wide-ranging. The techniques of encoding became increasingly sophisticated, moving from symbols replacing letters to complex ciphers. This workshop will explore the impact of cry...
Gary Schwartz - MAP FORUM
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MAP FORUM - 26 November 2024 Jewish Art Collectors Take Rembrandt to their Hearts The talk deals with one of the subjects covered in the recent publication Rembrandt seen through Jewish eyes: The artist’s meaning to Jews from his time to ours. Starting in his own lifetime, Rembrandt has exerted a notable draw on Jewish art collectors. In part, their interest is more than a matter of taste. Cert...
Catherine Powell-Warren - MAP FORUM
Просмотров 2314 дней назад
MAP FORUM - 19 November 2024 Collective Nature: Female Community and the Illustration of Nature in 17th-Century Amsterdam. This talk explores the community formed by the Dutch artists Maria Sibylla Merian, Johanna Helena Herolt, Maria Moninckx, and Alida Withoos and the patron Agnes Block. As members of this loose, informal female group, they made images and were compensated for them, obtained ...
Christian Kleinbub - MAP FORUM
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MAP FORUM - 12 November 2024 Leonardo and Religion Although it is often assumed that Leonardo da Vinci was, at best, uninterested in religion, it cannot be denied that he also produced some of the most important and original sacred images of his time. Revisiting Leonardo’s works and writings, my talk will attempt to understand how what we think we know about this most famous of empirical polyma...
William Barcham - MAP FORUM
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MAP FORUM - 5 November 2024 Titian in the Nineteenth Century: from Invention to Fiction, From Mystification to Apotheosis. After general neglect during the 18th century, Titian once more became the focus of painters and collectors alike in the 19th century in Venice and in France and England as well. What forms did his 'rebirth' take, and was its manifestation in Venice different from those in ...
Christopher R. Marshall - MAP FORUM
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MAP FORUM - 29 October 2024 “The rest is easy”: Problems of Attribution and Workshop Organisation in the Later Neapolitan Paintings of Artemisia Gentileschi. The recent influx of new attributions to Artemisia Gentileschi has stimulated an ongoing critical revision of her oeuvre, particularly in relation to the many new attributions datable to her later Neapolitan career. This lecture proposes t...
William J. Connel, James Hankins - THE ART OF NEGOZIO
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THE ART OF NEGOZIO - 25 October 2024 The Medici: More Equal than Others? Nearly a decade ago, the collection of essays “The Medici: Citizens and Masters”, reignited a debate between Philip Jones and Nicolai Rubinstein about the despotic versus republican nature of Medici political identity. This debate is still very much alive today, as democracies around the world are failing, and financial fo...
Stefano Dall'Aglio - MAP FORUM
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MAP FORUM - 22 October 2024 The Collector of Wonders: Leopoldo de’ Medici and Seventeenth-Century Rome. The talk is based on a research carried out under the aegis of the Medici Archive Project on a newly discovered correspondence: letters sent from Florence by the prince and cardinal Leopoldo de’ Medici to his agent in Rome Ottavio Falconieri in the second half of the seventeenth century. Leop...
Noelia García Perézcase - MAP FORUM
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MAP FORUM - 15 October 2024 Portraiture, Gender, and Power in Sixteenth Century Art. Creating and Promoting the Public Image of Early Modern Women. This book explores the construction and dissemination of the image of female power during the Renaissance. It analyzes how women in power created, promoted, and displayed their image, using artistic and cultural patronage to strengthen their authori...
Emily Michelson - MAP FORUM
Просмотров 1214 дней назад
MAP FORUM - 8 October 2024 The Saturday Sermon: Catholic Mission and Jewish Resistance in Early Modern Rome. Public sermons for the conversion of Jews took place weekly for 300 years, regularly drawing crowds of locals and visitors. This talk reconstructs the event that became one of early modern Rome’s most distinctive, celebrated attractions. It argues that Roman conversion sermons were funda...
Florence Forte - MAP FORUM
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MAP FORUM - 1 October 2024 Women Latinists and The Republic of Letters (1300 - 1700) This talk will provide a summary of the recent workshop hosted at MAP on Friday 20 September, called ‘The Epistolary Renaissance: Women Latinists and the Republic of Letters (1300-1700)’. This workshop examined the Latin literary contributions of women in late medieval and early modern Europe, with a focus on t...
Francesca Fiorani, Sara Taglialagamba, Carlo Vecce - THE ART OF NEGOZIO
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THE ART OF NEGOZIO - 26 September 2024 Renaissance genius! A roundtable discussion. One can easily admit that the term GENIUS has been abused by contemporary society. Nowadays, child prodigies, tech moguls, athletes-not to speak of influencers and internet gurus-are too often and too hastily elevated to this status. Elon Musk, Sabrina Gonzalez Pasterski, Roger Federer, and Jordan Peterson are c...
Jane Stevens Crawshaw - MAP FORUM
Просмотров 2014 дней назад
MAP FORUM . 24 September 2024 Cleaning Up Renaissance Italy: Environmental Ideals and Urban Practices in Genoa and Venice. Health, cleanliness, waste and reuse were closely managed in the port cities of Genoa and Venice through the regulation of urban daily life as well as communal responses to natural disasters. The close connections between the nature of people and the places they inhabited e...
Jonathan Nelson - MAP FORUM
Просмотров 2414 дней назад
MAP FORUM - 17 September 2024 Focusing on portraits, this talk explores the risks borne by those who produced and commissioned in Renaissance Italy. Employing a new methodology, built around concepts from risk analysis and decision theory, it provides examples of 'production risks', which arise from the conception of a work of art until its final placement, and 'reception risks', when a patron,...
Nina Lamal, Paola Molino, and Davide Boerio - MAP FORUM
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Nina Lamal, Paola Molino, and Davide Boerio - MAP FORUM