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.
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. (more…)
In her project “Migrating Motifs”, Nelleke de Vries investigates the migration and exchange of Christian iconographical motifs between the regions north and south of the Alps during the period 1450-1550. (more…)
In this book project, Chiara Franceschini aims to provide a study of the normativity of sacred images in Europe, between 1450-1650 circa, focusing on case studies from Italy, Spain, France and the Low Countries.
The SACRIMA team provides a comparative survey of imagery norms in order to rethink the geography of sacred art in early modern Europe.
By creating a repository and a map of contested images from European archives and texts, the SACRIMA teams hopes to create a resource for scholars and individuals interested in exploring image normativity in early modern Europe.
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In the project “Devotional Translations,” Erin Giffin explores the proliferation of Holy Houses across the Italian peninsula and beyond.
In this case study, Chiara Franceschini focuses on the making and impact of expressive crucifixes in early modern Italy. Her starting point is an inquisitorial case against a Sicilian sculptor, Innocenzo da Petralia, the author of a series of hyperrealistic wooden crucifixes in Central Italy (1637-1638).
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