Chiara Franceschini on analogies between the global stasis of the past months and the condition in limbo
Vite nel limbo e finestre sul cortileMicromega 5/2020July 2020
Activities
El viaje a Roma de Luis de Oviedo, agente y coleccionista a principios del siglo XVII
In this new article, Cloe Cavero unearths unpublished archival sources to reconstruct the Roman sojourn of Luis de Oviedo (ca. 1585-1624), one of the most significant non-aristocratic collectors in early seventeenth-century Spain.
17 June 2020La imagen del Niño de La Guardia entre calumnia y devoción
Cloe Cavero participated in the Virtual Encounters of the Museo Sefardí de Toledo with a public lecture on the imagery of the Holy Child of La Guardia.
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29 May 2020Portable Passion. The Dissemination of Martin Schongauer’s Artistic Inventions in Spain
On 29 May, Nelleke de Vries discussed the impact of the engravings of Martin Schongauer (c. 1445/1450-1491) in Spain from the late-fifteenth century onwards.
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Child Martyrs in the Early Modern Spanish Empire
On 8 June, Cloe Cavero discussed processes of migration of local cults within the Catholic world in the framework of Neue Forschungen zur Frühen Neuzeit, a seminar organized by Arndt Brendecke.
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Mattia Preti’s Madonna della Lettera: Painting, Cult, and Inquisition in Malta, Messina, and Rome
In the new issue of the Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz, Chiara Franceschini reconstructs and discusses the genesis, iconography, functions, and removal of two altarpieces dedicated to the Messinese Madonna della Lettera, respectively in Rome (1642) and in Malta (1668), on the basis of previously unpublished inquisitorial documents.
Chapels of the Cinquecento and Seicento in the Churches of Rome: Form, Function, Meaning
Just out with Officina Libraria!
Nine studies of early modern private chapels as multimedia “laboratories” for social and devotional display and for artistic invention and innovation in 16th- and 17th-century Rome.
Replicas of the Santa Casa: Networks of Geographic Translation
In February 2020, Erin Giffin launched her ongoing digital humanities project mapping replicas of the Santa Casa di Loreto. A companion to the monograph Translating Space: Replicas of the Holy House of Loreto (in progress), this tool provides an interactive resource to better visualize the spread of Loreto devotion, and the relationships between replicas.
10-18 February 2020Santa Casa research: Czech Republic and Austria
In February 2020, Erin Giffin traveled to see a series of Santa Casa replicas across the Czech Republic and Austria.
17 January 2020Atlas Marianus Ibericus
Chiara Franceschini and Cloe Cavero talked about “Marian Atlases, Image Normativity and the Geography of Art” at the first encounter for a planned research network taking place at Université Paris 13.
