Renaissance Society of America Conference 2012 Washington, DC

MAP Panels: 

Friday March, 23
2:00pm to 3:30pm
“PER VEDER CHE DIFFERENZA FUSSE FRA GLI ARTEFICI DI ROMA E QUEGLI DI FIORENZA…”: NEW ARCHIVAL FINDINGS ON FLORENTINE ARTISTS IN ROME IN THE CINQUECENTO                                                                                                                

Building: Grand Hyatt, Room: Constitution Level, Renwick

             “Florentine Patrons and Artists on the Quirinal in the Cinquecento”
              Alessio Assonitis, MAP

“Florentine Painters and the First Church of San Giovanni dei Fiorentini in Rome (1492-1582)”
Julia Vicioso, MAP

“Nuove informazioni sui pittori fiorentini attivi a Roma nella seconda metà del Cinquecento”
Simone Giordani,

 
3:45pm to 5:15pm
WOMEN'S CULTURAL AGENCY IN THE AGE OF THE MEDICI GRAND DUKES
Building: Grand Hyatt, Room: Constitution Level, Renwick

“Vittoria della Rovere and her matronage”
Adelina Modesti, La Trobe University

"The other Medici woman: Livia Vernazza de' Medici"
Brendan Dooley, University College Cork

“The Gondi Women”
Joanna Milstein, St. Andrew’s College

Saturday March, 24
8:45am to 10:15am
MEDICI GARDENS: HISTORY, DESIGN, FUNCTION
 Building: Grand Hyatt, Room: Constitution Level, Renwick

“Gardens of Mistaken Identity: the Giardino delle Stalle in Florence and the Giardino dell’Arsenale in Pisa”
Anatole Tchikine, Trinity College, Dublin

“From Hortus Botanicus to Hortus Medicus: The Afterlife of the Medici Garden at Careggi”
Raffaella Fabiani Giannetto

“Flowers of Health: Medicine and Floriculture at the Medici Court”
Sheila Barker, MAP

 
10:30am to 12:00pm
 THE PRINCE AND THE ACADEMIES: TUSCAN CULTURAL INSTITUTIONS UNDER THE MEDICI REGIME
 Building: Grand Hyatt, Room: Constitution Level, Renwick
 

“The Accademia degli Alterati in Medici Florence: An Accademia between Cultural Dissidence and Political Service”  Deborah Blocker, University of California, Berkeley

“Medici and Rozzi: A Sienese Congrega in the Times of Cosimo I”
Claudia Chierichini, Mount Holyoke College

“From the Accademia degli Humidi to the Accademia Fiorentina (1540–47): Inside Cosimo I's "Cultural Revolution"
Lisa Kaborycha, MAP

“Scientific Teaching in the Accademia del Disegno”
Bjorn Skaarup, European University Institute

 
2:00pm to 3:30pm
PERCEPTIONS OF THE OTHER IN THE GRAND DUCAL MEDICI ARCHIVE II (1537-1743)
Building: Grand Hyatt, Room: Constitution Level, Renwick

“ ‘Far and Beyond’. News of Other Worlds from the Netherlands in the Medici Archives”
Elena Brizio, MAP

“Florentine Correspondents in the Low Countries: the Birth of Belgium”
Maurizio Arfaioli, MAP

“ ‘Delle cose materiali rimarcabili’: Avvisi from the Savoia to the Florentine Court”
Roberta Piccinelli, MAP

 
3:45pm to 5:15pm
MEDICI AND SLAVERY IN THE MEDITERRANEAN SEA
Building: Grand Hyatt, Room: Constitution Level, Renwick

“The Quattro Mori and the Conditions of Slavery in Early Seicento Tuscany”
Mark Rosen, University of Texas, Dallas

“ ‘A Great Number of Christian Captives … That They Bring to Sell There’: French Perspectives on Mediterranean Slavery”  
Brian Sandberg, Northern Illinois University

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