A conversation on Rai 3 about images and people on the threshold, lives without identity, and uncertain destinies.

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Cloe Cavero examined the complex afterlife of ritual murder accusations as religious cults at the Departamental Seminar of Spanish and Latin American Studies of The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

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At the International Conference Capricci luterani. L’opera di Michelangelo sullo sfondo del dibattito interconfessionale (Frankfurt, 5-7 May 2021), Chiara Franceschini discussed new possibilities for interpreting the Sagrestia Nuova and other sixteenth-century Italian works in relation to vigilance and artistic practices of working at night.

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Chiara Franceschini discussed early modern notions of the vigilant artist at the Lecture Series Zeiten der Wachsamkeit, organized within the framework of the SFB 1369 Projekt Vigilanzkulturen based at LMU Munich.

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Chiara Franceschini spoke about the ‘Devil’s Crucifixes’ and Ter Brugghen in a digital conference organized by Villa Médicis, Académie de France à Rome. 

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. (more…)

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.  (more…)

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.  (more…)

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. (more…)

Cloe Cavero participated in the workshop Ut Pictura Poesis I: Art et littérature dans la Monarchie hispanique au Siècle d’Or, celebrated at the Collège d’Espagne in Paris.

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Chiara Franceschini and Cloe Cavero participated in the VI Seminario de Arte y Cultura en la Corte, which took place in Madrid at the Casa de México, El Escorial and the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.
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Erin Giffin will present her ongoing research of Santa Casa devotion around the Adriatic in her presentation “The Ark of Loreto: Loretan Devotion throughout the Adriatic”

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In the last week of February, Cloe Cavero travelled to Madrid to present two papers related with her current research project, firstly at the Coloquios Investigadores of the Department of Art History, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM), and following at the Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED), in the framework of the Research Group Before Orientalism: Images of the Muslim in Iberia (15th-17th centuries) and their Mediterranean Connections.

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Chiara Franceschini participated in this International Workshop with a paper entitled “‘Ad alcuni è piaciuto, ad altri non punto’: stime e giudizi di artisti nella Roma del Cinquecento”.

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Over 11-12 October, 2018, Erin Giffin was invited to present her ongoing research at a joint PhD seminar organized by the Politecnico di Torino and ETH Zurich at the Sacro Monte di Varallo near Milan, Italy. 

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Erin Giffin will present her ongoing current research on Loretan devotion at the Sixth Feminist Art History Conference at American University. Her paper, entitled “Mater Ecclesia(e): Papal Symbolism and the Madonna of Loreto,” explores the evolution of iconographic traits of the Loretan Madonna across the early modern period. 

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This September, Cloe Cavero participated in an International Symposium on saints and sanctity held in Rome, and organized by the Universidad Pablo de Olavide, the Universidad de Sevilla, the Università Roma Tre, and the Centro Studi Cultura e Immagine di Roma.

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Chiara Franceschini participated in the first part of the International Colloquium La Renaissance des origines. Commencement, genèse et création dans l’art des XVe et XVIe siècles, celebrated in Tel Aviv University (11-12 June) as part of the France-Israel Season 2018.

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Erin Giffin will present her ongoing research regarding replicas of the Holy House of the Virgin in an upcoming Renaissance Postgraduate Symposium at the Courtauld Institute of Art in London. 

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Cloe Cavero participated in the RSA 2018 with a paper dealing with the political resonance of the altarpiece of Saints Justus and Pastor in El Escorial.

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Chiara Franceschini presented her new book, Storia del Limbo (Feltrinelli, 2017) in the framework of the lecture series “Leggere il Medioevo: Autori, Incontri, Discussioni” at the Università di Verona.

Chiara Franceschini contributed to the first workshop of the cycle Corps troublants in Paris.

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Erin Giffin participated in the Summer Course for the Study of the Arts in Flanders, eleven days devoted to medieval and renaissance sculpture!

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Cloe Cavero travelled to Madrid to attend a workshop on sacred images at the time of the Reformation.

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The SACRIMA members travel to Chicago!

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Chiara Franceschini organized the panel Image Normativity and Religion in Italy and Spain: New Perspectives at the RSA Boston, sponsored by the Italian Academy for Advanced Study in America, Columbia University.

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