Architecture as Living Matter
Lecture Series
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Lecture
Architecture is a Time Machine
Jonathan Hill
08 June 2022, 6:00pm
Online
A building is a time machine, transporting us to many times separately or simultaneously. Temporal understanding is a means to learn from the past, reassess the present, and speculate on future models of practice and discourse.
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Bodies, Interiors and Origins of Art: National Artefacts in the Theory of Gottfried Semper
Elena Chestnova
22 June 2022, 6:00pm
Online
This talk will focus on the discursive entwinement between bodies and artefacts in the theory of Gottfried Semper. It will shed light on the ways in which Semper labels specific aspects of material culture as belonging to national and ethnic groups.
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Alberti Revisited: Art – Ethics – Politics Lecture Series
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Philosophy as a way of life: remarks on Leon Battista Alberti's Theogenius
Annalisa Ceron
21 June 2022, 6:30pm
Online
In the Theogenius, Alberti deals critically not only with the Stoic idea that philosophy is a way of life as it is a medicine of the mind, but also with the version of it put forward by Petrarch in his De remediis utriusque fortunae. If the Theogenius is analysed together with the Profugiorum ab erumna libri III and some related Intercenales, it is possible to show that the novelty of Alberti’s reflections lies not in his pessimistic diagnosis of the human condition, but rather in his ironic conception of the therapy: unlike the Stoics, Alberti does not believe in the possibility of finding a definitive cure for human suffering.
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Workshop
Global Early Modern Art in Nine Objects
28 June 2022, 6:00pm
Online
With the participation of: Daniela Bleichmar (University of Southern California), Amy Buono (Chapman University), Sinem Casale (Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut), Surekha Davies (Utrecht University), Kristina Kleutghen (Washington University in St. Louis), Lihong Liu (University of Michigan), Sugata Ray (University of California, Berkeley), Yael Rice (Amherst College), and Claudia Swan (Washington University in St. Louis).
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An Invisible Hand in All Her Works: Animal Architects and Political Economy in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World
Rebecca Zorach
09 June 2022, 3:00pm
Florence & online
Rebecca Zorach writes on early modern European art, contemporary activist art, and art of the 1960s and 1970s.
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Lecture
Umberto Ellero's Teleiconotipia: an intermedia perspective on photography and policing in colonial Italy
Nicoletta Leonardi
13 June 2022, 2:30pm
Florence & online
In looking at the colonial narratives and racist stereotypes at work in Ellero’s introduction of teleiconotypy as an evidentiary and surveillance technology of colonial policing, the aim of this lecture is to offer an escape from the otherwise limiting boundaries of historical single media narratives based on the idea of technological revolutions bringing back to light the marginalised episode of an unsuccessful but culturally significant intermedia invention.
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Georgia Project Lecture Series
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Locating and Constructing New Zions in the Medieval South Caucasus
Michele Bacci
31 May 2022, 3:00pm
Online
The present paper investigates the extent to which the visual, spatial, and performative evocation of Jerusalem's Zion as an archetypal church mount – or mount church – both had an impact on the shaping and decoration of sacred spaces and informed the monks' view of their special relationship with the surrounding natural environment.
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Early Neoclassical Architecture in Tbilisi
Maia Mania
21 June 2022, 3:00pm
Online
This presentation deals with some of the Neoclassical edifices built in Tbilisi, four of which have survived, while others no longer exist.
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4A_Lab Seminar
Art, Islam, and the Politics of Museum Display at Toronto's Aga Khan Museum and Granada's Museo de la Alhambra
Philip Geisler
13 June 2022, 4:30pm
Berlin
The paper examines object displays at the public Museo de la Alhambra in Granada, Spain, and the private Aga Khan Museum in Toronto, Canada.
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4A_Lab Seminar
A Place of Hybrid Encounters. Heritage Biography of a Railway Station
Shraddha Bhatawadekar
20 June 2022, 4:00pm
Berlin & online
Functional railway stations are fascinating places that subsume different aspects of what we commonly deem as heritage, such as “cultural,” “living,” and “industrial.” Although their study could significantly contribute to expanding our understanding of heritage, their potential to contribute to the discussion remains less explored. This research therefore aims to expand the notion of heritage by using an object biography approach.
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Lecture
Lecture by Vyjayanthi Rao
30 June 2022
Florence & online
Within the framework of the research project The City as Archive. Histories of Collecting and Archiving in and the Musealisation of Florence, Eighteenth Century to the Present. Further details to come.
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Workshop
Public Time, Monuments and Ghosts in Florence: a Walk and a Conversation
05 - 06 July 2022
Florence
Including a lecture, a public walk and conversation, and a round table in collaboration with Villa Romana.
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Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz
LXIII. Band (2021), Heft 3 (current issue)
With contributions from Giampaolo Distefano, Laura María Palacios Méndez, Edoardo Rossetti, Stephanie Hanke, Giulio Dalvit, and Maurizio Ricci.
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Zeitschrift für Ideengeschichte
Heft XVI/2 Sommer 2022
Der ligurische Komplex
Hrsg. von Hannah Baader und Gerhard Wolf
Die Sommerausgabe der ZIG reist nach Ligurien und spürt der „schwierigen Schönheit“ dieses fragilen Gebildes zwischen Land und Meer nach – ein Phantasie- und Passagenraum über Jahrhunderte.
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Decoding Leonardo's Codices
Compilation, Dispersal, and Reproduction Technologies
ed. by Paolo Galluzzi and Alessandro Nova
This book investigates how Leonardo’s manuscripts were compiled, their dispersal after the artist’s death, and the pioneering initiatives for facsimile reproduction and text transcription, beginning in the last decades of the nineteenth century.
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Nehemiah Grew and the Making of the "Anatomy of Plants" (1682)
Christoffer Basse Eriksen
Christoffer Basse Eriksen shows how Grew’s innovative approach to the vegetable world came to constitute a new science, called “plant anatomy,” aimed at effusing the printed page with the dynamism and liveliness of vegetable life.
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Gustav Fritsch: Three-Color Photography and Nature in the German Empire
Hanin Hannouch
In this talk, art historian Hanin Hannouch traces Gustav Fritsch’s (1832–1927) preoccupation with three-color photography and its complex relationship to “nature” in the Kaiserreich.
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Figurations of Space. Alberti Prints in the Rare Books Section of the Library
Marking the 550th anniversary of the death of Leon Battista Alberti (1404–1472) and the publication of the first German edition of his writing Della tranquillità dell’animo (On the Tranquility of the Soul).
The rare books section of the library of the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florence holds seven editions of Leon Battista Alberti’s theoretical treatises on art and architecture, which have not previously been studied in detail. The online exhibition is a first step in this direction.
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Archival Practices in the Photothek
The Photothek's latest online exhibition goes behind the scenes to look at archival practices here at the KHI, shedding light on the agency of archivists within the ecosystem of the Photothek.
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Calls for Papers and Applications
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Mobile Memories
Annual conference of the research group Bilderfahrzeuge. Aby Warburg's Legacy and the Future of Iconology
Berlin, 10-11 November 2022
Deadline: 30 June 2022
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Robert Klein Fellowship 2023
The Institut national d'histoire de l'art in partnership with the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz, announce a call for applications for the selection of the 2023 Robert Klein fellow. Application deadline: 1 June 2022
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How to access the Library and Photothek
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The Photothek (and the Ya section of the Library) in Palazzo Grifoni is accessible on request by email: fototeca@khi.fi.it
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