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Lecture
Gedanken sichtbar machen: Gustav Oscar Rejlander und die viktorianische Fotografie
Bernd Stiegler
10 January 2022, 3:00pm
Florence and online
Oscar Gustav Rejlander (1813-1875) ist der vielleicht bemerkenswerteste Fotograf im viktorianischen England. Mit The Two Ways of Life legte er bereits 1857 eine viel gelobte wie diskutierte Arbeit vor, die den Vergleich mit der Kunst nicht zu scheuen brauchte. Der Vortrag stellt Rejlanders Beitrag zur Geschichte der Fotografie und Kunst der viktorianischen Zeit vor.
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Motion: Transformation
35th Congress of the International Committee of the History of Arts
Florence, 1-6 September 2019, Congress Proceedings
Edited by Marzia Faietti and Gerhard Wolf
For the first time in the history of the CIHA, one of the international congresses, held every four years, was organized by two countries. Brazil and Italy collaborated in organising the XXXV congress, dividing it into two parts (Florence, 6-9 September 2019; São Paulo, 17-21 January 2022). The overall title Motion has pushed the focus in the direction of a transcultural or global art history, strongly debated in recent years, and on processes, dynamics and trajectories in time and space. Motion was to be addressed in two different yet interconnected perspectives, discussed in the respective venues of Florence and Sao Paulo: Transformation and Migrations.
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I 150 anni del Bargello
e la cultura dei musei nazionali in Europa nell'Ottocento
a cura di Ilaria Ciseri, Gerhard Wolf
Inaugurato in concomitanza del centenario dantesco del 1865, il Bargello fu il primo museo nazionale del neocostituito Regno d’Italia.
Il volume presenta gli Atti del convegno internazionale tenutosi a chiusura delle celebrazioni dei 150 anni del museo fiorentino, il 30 e 31 ottobre 2015. Il Symposium, che ha avuto luogo al Museo Nazionale del Bargello, in collaborazione con il Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut, ha ospitato specialisti e rappresentanti delle maggiori istituzioni museali europee definitesi nel contesto culturale degli anni Sessanta e Settanta dell’Ottocento, fino al primo Novecento.
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Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz
LXIII. Band (2021), Heft 2 (current issue)
With contributions from Francesco Saracino, Florian Métral, Alana O'Brien, Roberta J. M. Olson, Luca Pezzuto, and Michele Amedei.
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Collaborative Project
CENOBIUM
The new CENOBIUM website is now complete and online: http://cenobium.isti.cnr.it
Over recent years, the technology behind CENOBIUM – a project for the multimedia representation of Romanesque cloister capitals in the Mediterranean region – has increased the flexibility of the 3D-model rendering engine by improving the viewing experience and adding more features to perform shape-based analysis of the 3D-models (such as an interactive measuring instrument), by completely revising the “keyword search” tool, and by integrating historical photographs from the Photothek's collection.
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In Focus
In Noble Garb –
Historical Binding Papers in the Library
When antiquarian books are acquired by the library, they often come decorated with a variety of papers coloured using different techniques. This 'In Focus' brings together some of the historical binding papers from the library's collections.
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Online Exhibition
ART HISTORY WITH A CAMERA. The photography of Ralph Lieberman
In this online exhibition, we present photographs by Ralph Lieberman primarily from the Photothek's holdings. Lieberman’s photographic career began when he produced his own images for his dissertation. Since then, he has continuously contemplated both the possibilities and limitations of photography in the field of art history. This is reflected also in his teaching activities and in many of his publications. The Photothek holds more than 2,000 prints of his photographs that – in keeping with the focus of the Florentine collection – mainly show buildings and artworks from North and Central Italy.
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Video
Roots in Resistance: Vegetal Life in the Contemporary Eco-art Practices of Turkey
Ayşe Güngör
Building on the nexus between environmental activism and aesthetic practice, Ayşe Güngör traces a detailed account of contemporary eco-art practices from Turkey involving the display of botanic specimens. The talk took place on December 14, 2020 in the framework of the 4A_Lab online seminar series.
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Video
The Last Gift from Beijing: the Jesuit Gardens and the Sino-European Botanical Exchanges
Lianming Wang
In this 4A_Lab talk, Lianming Wang contextualizes the Beijing Jesuit gardens in the framework of global dynamics of horticultural and hydraulic practice as places of fruitful transcultural encounter and scientific knowledge production. The event took place on July 12, 2021 as part of the 4A_Lab online seminar series.
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Video
The Forest Cons: Sylvan Reflections within Architectural Imaginaries
Dan Handel
In this talk, architect and curator Dan Handel explores the multifaceted ways in which forests are being conceived, experienced, and transfigured through human imagination, shedding light on how sylvan epiphanies may find correspondence in spatial orders and architectural designs. The talk took place on December 13, 2021 as part of the 4A_Lab online seminar series.
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Interdisciplinary conference
Temple Cultures and Premodern Worlds across South Asia and the Indian Ocean
01 – 03 & 15 – 17 September 2021
Recordings of selected talks are now available on our Vimeo channel.
Welcome and Introduction to the Conference
Subhashini Kaligotla and Hannah Baader
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Temples and Urban Experience in Premodern South Asia: Monuments for the City
Katherine Kasdorf
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A Buddhist Bhairava? Kṛtanagara’s Icons against the Backdrop of Pan-Asian Late Tantric Buddhism
Andrea Acri
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Yadava Temples, Before and After
Pushkar Sohoni
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Indian Textiles for Island Taste – Cloth in Early Indian Ocean Trade
Ruth Barnes
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Seeing Double: The Tantrāloka, the Bṛhadīśvara Temple and the History of Medieval Śaivism
Whitney Cox
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Roundtable and Book Forum
with Vidya Dehejia
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Holiday Closure & Limitations
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Please note that the Institute will be closed until 9 January 2022 for the annual winter break. We would also like to inform our library users that some sections of the library won't be accessible in January 2022 due to construction works. Please consult our online reservation platform for further details. We apologize for any inconvenience.
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How to access the Library and Photo Library
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To access the Library (Via Giusti 44), users are required to make an online reservation: https://reserve.khi.fi.it
The Photo Library (and the Ya section of the Library) in Palazzo Grifoni is accessible on request by email: fototeca@khi.fi.it
Access to the Library and Photo Library is only possible on presentation of a European Covid Certificate (digital or printed).
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