10-18 February 2020
Santa 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.
Activities
Colegio de España, Paris
17 January 2020
Atlas Marianus Ibericus
Cécile Vincent-Cassy, Université Paris 13
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.
Waseda University, Tokyo
18-22 November 2019
DAAD-Waseda Seminar II
Between 18-22 November 2019, the SACRIMA Team participated in the second installment of the DAAD-Waseda seminar at Waseda University, Tokyo. (more…)
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
28 - 31 October 2019
DAAD-Waseda Seminar I
In the last week of October 2019, Professor Yoshie Kojima of Waseda University, Tokyo, came 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.”
Worcester College, University of Oxford; Thinking 3D Project
27-28 September 2019
Thinking 3D: Architecture and Audience
Dr. Katie Jacobiec (Scott Opler Junior Research Fellow in Architectural History, Worcester College, University of Oxford) ; Dr. Laura Moretti (Senior Lecturer, University of St Andrews); Daryl Green, MSc (Librarian, Magdalen College, Oxford)
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…)
4 - 14 August 2019
Rijksmuseum/RKD Summer School
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…)
Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte; Facultät Kunstwissenschaft, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
28-29 June 2019
Workshop: Message, Messenger, or False Friend? Early Modern Print as Intermediary
Erin Giffin, Dr. (SACRIMA, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität); Antonia Putzger, Dr. des. (Universität Bielefeld)
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. (more…)
Pavia, Almo Collegio Borromeo
9 May 2019
The Patriarchs and the Bosom of Abraham in European Art and Iconography
Daniela Rando (Università di Pavia)
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
Collège d'Espagne, Paris
21 May 2019
Ut pictura poesis
Cécile Vincent-Cassy (Université Paris 13); Jesus Ponce Cárdenas (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)
Madrid
24-26 April 2019
Redes artísticas, circulación y exposición de reliquias en el Mundo Hispánico
Luisa Elena Alcalá (UAM); Juan Luis González García (UAM)
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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Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
March 17 - 19, 2019
Renaissance Society of America Conference 2019
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”
Madrid
26-27 February 2019
Early Modern Perspectives on Medieval Accusations
José Riello (UAM); Borja Franco Llopis (UNED)
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.
Croatia
11-20 February 2019
Santa Casa research in Croatia
Between February 11-20, Erin Giffin visited the libraries of Zagreb and travelled down the coast from Trsat to Primosten to visit and compare Adriatic replicas of the Santa Casa di Loreto.
Milan
9-10 January 2019
Vesperbild. Alle origini delle Pietà di Michelangelo, in Milan
In January 2019, the SACRIMA team and students from the fall seminar travelled to a special exhibition at the Castello Sforzesco in Milan. (more…)
Institut für Kunstgeschichte, LMU / Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte
7-8 December 2018
Madonne: Reframing, Coronation and Re-Installation of Marian Images in Early Modern Spaces
In December 2018, SACRIMA’s third conference considered iterations of the Virgin Mary reframed through early modern coronations, revisions, and re-installations. Subjects presented span Northern and Southern Europe across the sixteenth through eighteenth centuries.
Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz
15-16 November 2018
Bad Reception: Expressing Disapproval of Art in Early Modern Italy
Diletta Gamberini (LMU München), Jonathan K. Nelson (Syracuse University Florence), Alessandro Nova (KHI Florenz)
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”.
Joint PhD seminar: Copy and Reproduction of Architecture in Early Modern Europe
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.
Santa Casa Research in Poland
Between September 16-21, Erin Giffin travelled through Poland to visit and compare various replicas of the Santa Casa di Loreto.
Research in Valladolid and Madrid
During the months of July and August, Cloe Cavero travelled to Spain to conduct archival research and fieldwork for her research project on child saints.
1 August 2018
WELCOME! Nelleke de Vries joins SACRIMA
Nelleke de Vries joins the ERC project SACRIMA as a PhD student with a project on the migration and adaptation of iconographical inventions between Northern and Southern Europe in 1450-1550.
American University, Washington D.C.
28-30 September 2018
Sixth Feminist Art History Conference, American University
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.
Rome
17-20 September 2018
A la luz de Roma: Santos y santidad en el barroco iberoamericano
Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Sevilla; Universidad de Sevilla; Università degli Studi Roma Tre; Centro Studi Cultura e Immagine di Roma
Institut für Kunstgeschichte, LMU, Zentnerstr. 31, Room 4. Thursdays, 17.15-20.
Sommersemester 2018
Forms and Norms in European Art and Beyond
Call for Applications, RSA Seminar 2019: Archipelagoes of Images
Archipelagoes of Images: Islands as Centers of Artistic Encounter and Conflict
The SACRIMA team invites applicants to participate in a cross-cultural seminar at RSA in Toronto, CA (17-19 March, 2019).
Tel Aviv University
11-12 June
La Renaissance des origines
Sefy Hendler (Université de Tel Aviv), Florian Métral (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne) et Philippe Morel (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne).
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.
Institut für Kunstgeschichte, LMU. Zentnerstraße 31, Munich
Rome
5-6 June 2018
Maniera and Mannerisms: a Historiographic Paradigm of Cinquecento Art
Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institute for Art History
As a collaboration of the Bibliotheca Hertziana in Rome, SACRIMA, and the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florence, this workshop presents a forum for scholars currently engaged in research projects that reckon with the historiographic challenges continuously shaping contemporary discourse regarding mannerism and artwork produced across the sixteenth century.
28-30 May
Research in Toledo and Cuenca
In the framework of her research on images and cults of child saints in early modern Europe, Cloe Cavero conducted fieldwork and archival research in the ecclesiastical collections of Toledo and Cuenca.
Statuto delle immagini e ruolo dei competenti d’arte nei procedimenti del Sant’Uffizio
Chiara Franceschini presented a paper on the role of competing agencies in charge of image control in early modern Catholic countries in the framework of L’Inquisizione Romana e i suoi archivi. A vent’anni dall’apertura dell’ACDF, a conference celebrated in Rome on 15-17 May 2018.
The Courtauld Institute of Art, London, UK
25 May 2018
Courtauld Institute Renaissance Postgraduate Symposium: Art and Ideas on the Move, 1400-1600
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.
Italy
23 February - 7 April 2018
Santa Casa research in Italy
This spring, Erin Giffin conducted independent research of Santa Casa replicas in two- and three-dimensional format in multiple communities across Italy.
Paris, INHA
12 April 2018
Séminaire collectif d’histoire de l’art de la Renaissance, INHA
Chiara Franceschini was invited to present the project and talk about «La normativité des images sacrées à l’époque moderne» in conversation with Emanuele Coccia and Francesca Alberti at the Séminaire collectif d’histoire de l’art de la Renaissance, Paris, INHA, salle Vasari, jeudi 12 avril, 18.00.
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Opportunities for PhD students in Art History/Visual Culture
Sacrima Project
One or two PhD students (pre-doctoral researchers) in early modern art history/visual culture are sought to work within SACRIMA
Deadline: 12 April 2018
New Orleans
22-24 March 2018
The 64th Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America, New Orleans
Renaissance Society of America
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.
Dipartimento Culture e Civiltà
15 March 2018
Leggere il Medioevo: Autori, Incontri, Discussioni
Università di Verona
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.
Rome
19-23 February 2018
Roma-Babilonia: The Plurality of Artistic Languages in Post-Renaissance Rome (circa 1550-1650)
The itinerary started in the Sala Paolina of Castel Sant’Angelo, where Chiara Franceschini and our guest Tiffany Hunt, M.A., discussed with the group about this fundamental starting point for the study of the late Cinquecento art.
Centre André Chastel, Paris
19 January 2018
Corps troublants. Images et imaginaires dans la première modernité
Francesca Alberti (CESR /Université François-Rabelais, Tours), Antonella Fenech Kroke (Centre André Chastel/CNRS)
Chiara Franceschini contributed to the first workshop of the cycle Corps troublants in Paris.
Alcalá de Henares
29 December 2017
The Magistral Church of Saints Justo and Pastor in Alcalá de Henares
Cloe Cavero visited the crypt where the relics of the two young brothers Saints Justo and Pastor were translated with great magnificence in 1568.
Neusäß, Türkheim
December 22, December 28
Bavarian Holy Houses: Neusäß and Türkheim
Over the month of December, Erin Giffin visited the Bavarian Holy Houses at Neusäß (in the outskirts of Augsburg), and Türkheim.
Chiesa di San Gottardo in Corte, via Pecorari, 2 (Milano)
Monday, 11 December, 18.30
Chiara Franceschini presents her book “Storia del Limbo” (Feltrinelli, 2017)
Scuola della Cattedrale, Milano
With Salvatore Settis, Armando Torno and Mons. Gianantonio Borgonovo
30 November 2017
Holy Children in the Bayerische Nationalmuseum
Bayerisches Nationalmuseum, Prinzregentenstraße 3, München.
In the framework of the International Conference Holy Children, Liminal Bodies: The Status and Materiality of Infancy in Early Modern Visual Culture, the members of the SACRIMA team joined speakers and guests to visit the Bayerische Nationalmuseum of Munich. (more…)
Zentralinstitute für Kunstgeschichte – LMU München
30 November – 1 December 2017
Holy children, liminal bodies. The status and materiality of infancy in early modern visual culture
Starting from an investigation of the reinvention, the functions and the adaptations of the ‘normative image’ of the ancient putto in the Renaissance, this conference questioned the multiform transmigration, variation, adaptation and use of images of children in early modern Europe.
Institut für Kunstgeschichte, LMU, Zentnerstr. 31, Room 510. Thursdays, 17-20.
Wintersemester 2017/2018
Sacred Images and Visual Normativity in Early Modern Art
Research Seminar (Oberseminar), 2017-2018
Institut für Kunstgeschichte, LMU, Zentnerstr. 31, Room 510. Thursdays, 17-20.
Zentralinstitute für Kunstgeschichte
2 – 3 November
Contested forms. The limits of the sacred image and the normative power of art in early modern Europe
“Contested forms” was the first of a series of planned conferences and workshops organized by the Sacrima team over the duration of the five-year project. These events will open discussions with the larger scientific community regarding the main research questions of the project and/or provide closer analysis of associated sub-projects and case studies.
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19 September 2017
WELCOME! Erin Giffin joins SACRIMA
Dr. Erin Giffin, PhD University of Washington in Seattle (2017) joins the ERC project SACRIMA as Postdoctoral Research Associate with the project Devotional Translations: Early Modern Replicas of the Holy House of the Virgin.
4 September-13 October 2017
After the Holy Child of La Guardia
Cloe Cavero spent six weeks in Spain working on different ecclesiastical archives and visiting churches of the archbishopric of Toledo. (more…)
31 July - 5 August 2017
Travelling through the Crown of Aragon
Cloe Cavero visited Castellón, Valencia, Barcelona, Sigena, Huesca and Zaragoza. (more…)
Institut für Kunstgeschichte, LMU
DEADLINE 20 July
CfP: “Holy children/Liminal bodies: The status and materiality of infancy in early modern visual culture”
Institut für Kunstgeschichte, LMU
Institut für Kunstgeschichte, LMU
1 July 2017
WELCOME! Veronika Winkler joins SACRIMA
Veronika Winkler, M.A., is a PhD Candidate at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich with the research project Success Stories in the New World. Transfer, translation and discourse in the mirror of hagiographical painting cycles in Viceroyal Peru (1600-1780).
Leuven
18-28 June 2017
Medieval and Renaissance Sculpture in the Low Countries
Erin Giffin participated in the Summer Course for the Study of the Arts in Flanders, eleven days devoted to medieval and renaissance sculpture!
Bibliotheca Hertziana, Rome
18-19 May 2017
Figura. Ästhetische und mediale Aspekte einer Denkform in der Vormoderne
Klaus Krüger and Anne Eusterschulte.
Biblioteca Hertziana – Max Planck-Institut for Kunstgeschichte in Rome.
Chiara Franceschini participated in this interdisciplinary conference with the paper “Appearance of life (Schein-Leben), gradations of reality and liminal figures”.
Casa de Velázquez, Madrid
8-11 May 2017
The Great Debate on Images: The Catholic Monarchy and its Atlantic Empire
Casa de Velázquez, Madrid
Coordinated by: Felipe Pereda (Harvard University), María Cruz de Carlos Varona, (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid), Nicolas Morales (EHEHI, Casa de Velázquez)
Cloe Cavero travelled to Madrid to attend a workshop on sacred images at the time of the Reformation.
2 May 2017
Presentation of the SACRIMA Project in the Department of Kunstwissenschaften of LMU
IBZ, Amalienstr. 38, München.
Chiara Franceschini and Cloe Cavero presented the SACRIMA Project to members of the Kunstwissenschaften Department at LMU.
Institut für Kunstgeschichte, LMU, Zentnerstr. 31, Room 4. Thursdays, 17-20.
Sommersemester 2017
Sacred Images and Visual Normativity in Early Modern Art
Research Seminar (Oberseminar), SoSe 2017
Institut für Kunstgeschichte, LMU, Zentnerstr. 31, Room 4. Thursdays, 17-20.
15 April 2017
WELCOME! Cloe Cavero de Carondelet joins SACRIMA
Dr. Cloe Cavero de Carondelet, PhD European University Institute in Florence (2016) joins the ERC project SACRIMA as Postdoctoral Research Associate with the project The Age of Sanctity: Images and Cults of Child Saints in Early Modern Europe and with special responsibility for the geographic area of Iberia.
Chicago, The Palmer House Hilton
30 March-1 April 2017
The 63rd Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America, Chicago
Institut für Kunstgeschichte, LMU, Zentnerstr. 31, Room 510
10 February 2017
SACRIMA Workshop I. ERC Study Day The Normativity of Sacred Images in Early Modern Europe: perspectives and research proposals
Prof. Dr. Chiara Franceschini
12-13 December 2016
Ideal Forms and Ideal Seeing in the Renaissance
Rome, Accademia Nazionale di San Luca.
Institut für Kunstgeschichte (LMU München), École Pratique des Hautes Études (Sorbonne) and Accademia Nazionale di San Luca.
Chiara Franceschini presented “Ideal Forms and Ideal Seeing in Roman Chapels” at the International Conference Ideales Sehen und Ideale Sehen in der Renaissance/Ideal Forms and Ideal Seeing in the Renaissance, organized by Sabine Frommel and Ulrich Pfisterer in Rome.
12-13 December 2016
International Workshop: Genèse et postérité des Evangelicae Historiae Imagines (1593)
Chiara Franceschini presented the paper “Quandoque imagini adpinxit, quod non legitur in Evangelio. Notes on the autonomy of images in the EHI”, at the international workshop Genèse et postérité des Evangelicae Historiae Imagines (1593), organized by Ralph Dekoninck, Pierre Antoine Fabre et Patrick Goujon.
DEADLINE 1 December 2016
CfA: Applications are sought for up to two Research Associates (Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter/in) for the ERC funded project SACRIMA
Applications are sought for up to two Research Associates (Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter/in) for the new ERC funded project SACRIMA, The Normativity of Sacred Images in Early Modern Europe led by Professor Chiara Franceschini and based at the LMU Institute for Art History in Munich, Germany. Applications from other related disciplines are welcome.
6 September 2016
Presentation of the SACRIMA project at the University Ca’ Foscari of Venice
Chiara Franceschini presented the SACRIMA project at the Dipartimento di Filosofia e Beni Culturali of the University Ca’ Foscari of Venice.
August 2016
On the itinerary of the religious sculptor Innocenzo da Petralia
Chiara Franceschini followed the itinerary of Innocenzo da Petralia in Umbria and in Le Marche, visiting Gubbio, Cagli, San Lorenzo in Campo and Pesaro.
16-17 June 2016
Fervidus ignis: discorsi sul fuoco nel tardo Rinascimento
Chiara Franceschini delivered the paper “Lumeggiata da quel fuoco“, Fiamme, inferni e novità pittoriche nel (tardo) Rinascimento” at this conference, organized by Federica Favino and Maria Conforti at the Università di Roma La Sapienza.
1 June 2016
SACRIMA starts!
Prof. Dr. Chiara Franceschini joins the Institut for Kunstgeschichte of the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich as Professor of Early Modern Art with the ERC Project SACRIMA / The Normativity of Sacred Images in Early Modern Europe.
31 March-2 April 2016
62nd Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America, Boston
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.
