In the last week of October 2019, Professor Yoshie Kojima of Waseda University, Tokyo, will come to LMU with a group of Waseda researchers to participate in the first installment of the DAAD-Waseda sponsored Seminar “Early Modern Sacred Images in Japan and Europe: Contact, Comparison, Conflict.”
Centered on sacred images traversing cultures, this DAAD and Waseda sponsored research project investigates the active role of objects and images as agents of religious encounter and conflict between early modern Europe and Japan.
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In this contribution, Chiara Franceschini presents some of the newly discovered cases of images contested by the Roman Inquisition.
Over 27-28 September, Erin Giffin presents her ongoing research with a poster at the Thinking 3D: Architecture and Audience conference at Worcester College of Oxford, England, headed by Dr. Katie Jacobiec, as part of the Thinking 3D initiative organized by Dr. Laura Moretti and Daryl Green.
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Nelleke de Vries participated in the Summer School: Northern Renaissance Art, a joint organization between the Rijksmuseum and the RKD–Netherlands Institute for Art History.
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In this essay, Chiara Franceschini discusses the extremely imaginative series of miniatures of hell and the Last Things as well as the complex relations between text and image in the Livre de la Vigne, Ms. Douce 134 from the Bodleian Library (1460 circa).
In this article, Cloe Cavero de Carondelet examines the rare scene represented in a little-known drawing by the royal painter Eugenio Cajés.
With the financial support of the Fritz Thyssen Foundation, the SACRIMA team and workshop participants engaged with questions regarding the intermediary function of early modern print culture in new compositions and contexts.
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Chiara Franceschini talked about “Il seno di Abramo nell’iconografia europea” in a public lecture at the Collegio Borromeo in Pavia on 9 May 2019
