Activities

EHESS, Paris

EHESS Paris

EHESS, Paris

March 2023

Conference cycle at the EHESS in Paris

EHESS Paris

In conclusion of her ERC project SACRIMA, Chiara Franceschini will give a lecture series on “Arcipelagoes of Images: Art and Inquisition in the Early Modern Period” as Guest Professor at the EHESS in Paris.

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New Job

After three years as a doctoral researcher in the Sacrima project, Nelleke de Vries will start her new job as Curator of Old Masters and Modern Art at Rijksmuseum Twenthe in Enschede, the Netherlands in January 2022. 

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Rome, Saxa Rubra

Rai Tre, #maestri, Edoardo Camurri

Rome, Saxa Rubra

30 June 2021

Images on a Threshold

Rai Tre, #maestri, Edoardo Camurri

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

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The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Yanay Israeli

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

1 June 2021

Ritual Murder and its Afterlife

Yanay Israeli

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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Christine Ott and Hans Aurenhammer, Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main

Alessandro Nova, Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz

Marc Föcking, Universität Hamburg

5-7 May 2021

Michelangelo’s nocturnal work

Christine Ott and Hans Aurenhammer, Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main

Alessandro Nova, Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz

Marc Föcking, Universität Hamburg

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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Universidad Iberoamericana, Ciudad de México

Pablo Abascal Sherwell

Universidad Iberoamericana, Ciudad de México

5 April 2021

Circulación de devociones e imágenes religiosas

Pablo Abascal Sherwell

Cloe Cavero gave a guest lecture on the circulation of cults of saints in the early modern Catholic world at the Department of History of the Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City. 


Microsoft Teams/Roma Tre

Roma Tre, Patrizia Tosini, Chiara Franceschini

Microsoft Teams/Roma Tre

31 March 2021

Roman Chapels of the Cinquecento and Seicento Book Launch

Roma Tre, Patrizia Tosini, Chiara Franceschini

Susanne Kubersky-Piredda (Bibliotheca Hertziana, Rome) and Patrizia Cavazzini (Rome) presented Chapel of the Cinquecento and Seicento in the Churces of Rome, ed. by Chiara Franceschini, Steven F. Ostrow, and Patrizia Tosini (Milan 2020), in an online event organised by Patrizia Tosini at Roma Tre. The Editors’ Introduction and Chiara Franceschini’s chapter are now available here.

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Colegio de España, Paris

Cécile Vincent-Cassy, Université Paris 13

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.

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Waseda University, Tokyo
Waseda University, Tokyo

18-23 November 2019

DAAD-Waseda Seminar II

Between 18-23 November 2019, the SACRIMA Team participated in the second installment of the DAAD-Waseda seminar at Waseda University, Tokyo.  (more…)


Worcester College, University of Oxford; Thinking 3D Project

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)

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…)


Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte; Facultät Kunstwissenschaft, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

Erin Giffin (SACRIMA, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität); Antonia Putzger (Universität Bielefeld); Chiara Franceschini (LMU)

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 (SACRIMA, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität); Antonia Putzger (Universität Bielefeld); Chiara Franceschini (LMU)

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…)


Madrid

José Riello (UAM); Borja Franco Llopis (UNED)

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.

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Institut für Kunstgeschichte, LMU / Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte
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.

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Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz

Diletta Gamberini (LMU München), Jonathan K. Nelson (Syracuse University Florence), Alessandro Nova (KHI Florenz)

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”.

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American University, Washington D.C.
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. 

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Rome

Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Sevilla; Universidad de Sevilla; Università degli Studi Roma Tre; Centro Studi Cultura e Immagine di Roma

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


Tel Aviv University

Sefy Hendler (Université de Tel Aviv), Florian Métral (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne) et Philippe Morel  (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne).

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.

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Rome

Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institute for Art History

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. 

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Centre André Chastel, Paris

Francesca Alberti (CESR /Université François-Rabelais, Tours), Antonella Fenech Kroke (Centre André Chastel/CNRS)

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.

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Zentralinstitute für Kunstgeschichte – LMU München
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.

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Zentralinstitute für Kunstgeschichte
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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Bibliotheca Hertziana, Rome

Klaus Krüger and Anne Eusterschulte.

Biblioteca Hertziana – Max Planck-Institut for Kunstgeschichte in Rome.

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”.

 

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Casa de Velázquez, Madrid

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)

Harvard University, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Campus de Excelencia UAM-CSIC, Ministerio de Educación, Cultura y Deporte, École des hautes études hispaniques et ibériques (Casa de Velázquez, Madrid), École française de Rome, Telemme (UMR 7303 Aix-Marseille Université-CNRS)

 

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)

Harvard University, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Campus de Excelencia UAM-CSIC, Ministerio de Educación, Cultura y Deporte, École des hautes études hispaniques et ibériques (Casa de Velázquez, Madrid), École française de Rome, Telemme (UMR 7303 Aix-Marseille Université-CNRS)

 

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

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Rome, Accademia Nazionale di San Luca.

Institut für Kunstgeschichte (LMU München), École Pratique des Hautes Études (Sorbonne) and Accademia Nazionale di San Luca.

 

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.

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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.

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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.

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