Description
This event was held on Friday, 8 November at Florida State University’s Palazzo Bagnesi Falconeri in Florence. The keynote lecture was delivered by Monsignor Timothy Verdon, Director of both the Museo dell'Opera del Duomo and the Office of Sacred Art of the Archdiocese of Florence. The program featured members from American and Italian universities, museums, and research institutions, including bestselling author Ross King. The event’s aim was to connect Florence’s academic community and cultural heritage sector with the public, promoting the exchange of ideas in the spirit of international and interdisciplinary collaboration.The symposium’s theme focused on 'rethinking' customary ideas, beliefs, and theories concerning Renaissance art and material culture. Instead of static, stand-alone entities, these objects were often single components of larger systems. These frameworks could be physical—as seen in churches, domestic spaces, or public squares—or conceptual, such as signs, symbols, and systems of thinking that reflected cultural, social, and gendered norms. This event presented new scholarship that considered the familial, religious, and/or civic significance of commissions, along with the personal, social, structural, ornamental, and/or ceremonial connections that art brought to the lives and spaces of Renaissance contemporaries. The interactive nature of art was also explored, most notably how the roles of patron, artist and public intersected. By taking ‘new looks’ at ‘old art,’ the symposium hoped to shed light on a more holistic, integrative approach to scholarship, which could assist how the discipline is discussed, taught, and researched in the future at universities, museums, and other cultural institutions.
| Aikajakso | 8 marrask. 2024 |
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| Tapahtuman tyyppi | Conference |
| Sijainti | Florence, ItaliaNäytä kartalla |