Upcoming Jane Fortune Conference

Women Artists of Early Modern Italy: New Archival Studies

Presented by The Jane Fortune Research Program on Women Artists in the Age of the Medici
and
the Archivio di Stato di Firenze

Friday, March 2, 2012
 

9:00  INTRODUCTION
D.ssa Carla Zarrili, Director, Archivio di Stato, Firenze
Dr. Jane Fortune, Boardmember of the Medici Archive Project (to be read by D.ssa Elena Brizio)
Dr. Alessio Assonitis, Director of the Medici Archive Project
 
9:30 KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Sheila ffolliott, Professor emerita, George Mason University:
“More than Famous:” Women Artists in Early Modern Europe
 
10:00 -10:50 THE REPUTATION AND COLLECTING OF WOMEN ARTISTS IN EARLY MODERNITY
Roberta Piccinelli, Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at The Medici Archive Project:
Medici Collectors of Women Artists in the Seventeenth Century
Barbara Tramelli, Pre-Doctoral Research Fellow at the Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte in Berlin:
Sofonisba Anguissola ‘Pittora de Natura’: a Page from Van Dyck’s Italian Sketchbook
 
11:00-12:45  THE LIVES AND CAREERS OF EARLY WOMEN ARTISTS, PART I
Cecilia Gamberini, Doctoral Student, Universidad Autònoma de Madrid:
A Documented Reconstruction of Sofonisba Anguissola’s Life at the Spanish Court
Sheila Barker, Director, The Jane Fortune Research Project:
Artemisia Gentileschi's Tumultuous Florentine Years
Claire Eskander, Junior Researcher, The Jane Fortune Research Project:
Problems and Hypotheses: Artemisia Gentileschi and Her Family
Lisa Goldenberg Stoppato, Coordinator of Educational Programs, The Medici Archive Project:
Arcangela Paladini: from Convent to Court
 
12:45-1:10 PANEL DISCUSSION WITH MORNING SPEAKERS
 
1:10-2:00 Lunch Break (lunch for speakers and guests at the Archivio di Stato)
 
2:00-2:50 FINDING NEW WORKS BY WOMEN ARTISTS
Adelina Modesti, ARC Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, La Trobe University, Melbourne:
A Newly Discovered Late Work by Artemisia Gentileschi
Myrtò Psicharis, Junior Researcher, The Jane Fortune Research Project:
A Style of Her Own: A New Attribution to Agnese Dolci
 
 3:00-4:40 THE LIVES AND CAREERS OF EARLY WOMEN ARTISTS, PART II
Julia Vicioso, Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at The Medici Archive Project:
Notes on Women Artists in the Archive of San Giovanni dei Fiorentini in Rome: Costanza Francini, Lavinia Fontana and Suor Maria de Dominicis
Eve Straussman-Pflanzer, Associate Curator of European Painting and Sculpture before 1750, The Art Institute of Chicago:
The First Female Medici Court Artist: Archival Evidence of the Life and Career of Camilla Guerrieri Nati
Heiner Krellig, Lecturer, Freie Universitaet Berlin
Gli affari di Rosalba. Nuove evidenze documentarie sulla vita della "Prima Pittrice de l’Europa"
Martina Manfredi, Post-Doctoral Researcher, University of Pisa:
Female Artists as Entrepreneurs. Carlotta Amigoni: a Venetian Paintress in Georgian London
 
5:00-5:30  PANEL DISCUSSION WITH AFTERNOON SPEAKERS; CLOSING REMARKS