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What's on this January

Lectures 

Lecture
Instrumental Bodies: On Makers, Servants, and Machines in the Medieval Mediterranean
Lamia Balafrej
24 January 2023, 3:00pm
Florence & online


This talk will delve into visual, material, philosophical, technical, and literary sources, in order to understand the work of technology in medieval imaginaries.

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Lecture
Pietre "di diversi colori come l'arco celeste": il marmo a Genova nell’Età moderna
Roberto Santamaria
25 January 2023, 11:00am
Florence & online


La conversazione riguarderà l’estrazione, il commercio, il trasporto e l’impiego di marmi e pietre colorate a Genova, in Liguria e dal Mediterraneo all’Europa e alle Americhe.

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Study Week

Study Week
Cultural heritage management: reusing prisons as spaces for contemporary art 

16-20 January 2023
Zaragoza


The 5th intensive study week of the GAP - Graffiti Art in Prison Project will look at prisons from the heritage point of view, considering their cultural value, analyzing potential new uses, and exploring the possibility of contemporary art, including graffiti, to change the uncomfortable feelings linked to these places.

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Save the date

Symposium
Amerindian Art Histories and Archaeologies
01, 08, 15, 22 February 2023, 5:00pm CET / 4:00pm GMT
Online


Organized by Sanja Savkić Šebek (KHI in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut & Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin), Bat-ami Artzi (CSoC, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev; former 4A_Lab Fellow) & Elizabeth Baquedano (UCL Institute of Archaeology).

The KHI – UCL symposium convenes art historians, archaeologists, anthropologists and curators who share interests in the transformative potential of matter and materials stemming from different social and aesthetic practices. These practices are manifest in creative works produced by indigenous peoples across the Americas from ancient times to the present. In each of the four sessions, three researchers will bring into conversation case studies from a diverse set of indigenous cultural traditions and address a specific type of materiality. Namely, they will address the materiality of stones, metals, color, as well as multi-materiality and multisensory creations and experiences, their functions, uses and reception from ancient, colonial and contemporary indigenous societies from Brazil, the Central Andes, Panama, Mesoamerica and North America.

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Lecture
Illustrating the Vitae patrum: The Rise of the Eremitic Ideal in Fourteenth-Century Italy
Denva Gallant
01 March 2023, 3:00pm
Florence & online


This lecture introduces a variety of manuscripts of the Vitae patrum—from the less extensively illuminated manuscripts to the most fulsomely illustrated dated to the fourteenth-century. It focuses, however, more narrowly on Morgan manuscript M.626 and considers just how its illuminations emphasize and in turn offer the contemplative life as exemplar.

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Blogs

Blog post
“Ucciardone – ‘U Ciarduni”. Life inside Palermo’s infamous prison
GAP Project – Graffiti Art in Prison

From October 15th to November 12th 2022 the Centro Internazionale di Fotografia di Palermo “Letizia Battaglia”, located in the Cantieri Culturali alla Zisa, hosted the exhibition “Ucciardone – ‘U Ciarduni”, by the photographers Michele Di Leonardo (Palermo, 1963) and Salvo Valenti (Palermo, 1962).

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Work with us

Studentische Hilfskraft (w/m/d)

Das Kunsthistorische Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut – sucht für die Dauer von 5 Monaten, beginnend ab dem 1. Mai 2023, für die Bibliothek eine Studentische Hilfskraft (w/m/d) (Teilzeit, 19 Stunden pro Woche).
 

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In Focus

Inspiration and Arrangement. The library – a place of research for 125 years
beginning on 12 December 2022

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Online Exhibition

"Mudejarismo" and "Moorish Revival"

The reception and reinterpretation of the Islamic heritage of al-Andalus during the Iberian Middle Ages and the global nineteenth century in art and architecture was the focus of a research project undertaken by an interdisciplinary research team led by Francine Giese. Titled “Mudejarismo and Moorish Revival in Europe” and running from 2014 to 2019, the project was based at the Institute of Art History of the University of Zurich and funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF). Selected buildings and interiors throughout Europe were studied for a critical analysis of the two phenomena commonly referred to as “Mudejarismo” and “Moorish Revival”. Though controversial today, both terms were used within the Zurich project and its scientific output to identify a specific moment in time when nineteenth-century art historiography sought to construct a history of styles based on a largely Eurocentric view of the different artistic trends of the past and present.

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How to access the Library and Photothek 

The Library and the Photothek are open to users with a valid library card, Monday to Friday, from 9:00 am to 8:00 pm and 10:00 am to 7:00 pm respectively.

Please note that section Za (auction catalogs) of the Library will not be accessible for an extended period. We apologize for any inconvenience.

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