The Medici Archive Project (MAP) is an independent research institute whose aim is to preserve and valorize the archives of the Medici dynasty, which comprise over fifteen million documents (many of them are featured in the MIA DATABASE). MAP also serves as a major academic hub for scholars and students worldwide in the field of Italian Renaissance and early modern studies.
Color production in early modern Europe was one of the prime motivators of artistic experimentation; colors also could cause an artwork's failure as pigments degraded. This talk examines how artists and their audiences understood the fleeting nature of colors in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The widely recognized breakdown of certain pigments highlighted the environmental transformation and ultimate ephemerality of the work of art. Elizabeth Rice Mattison is the Andrew W. Mellon Curator of Academic Programming and Curator of European Art at the Hood Museum at Dartmouth College.
Color production in early modern Europe was one of the prime motivators of artistic experimentation; colors also could cause an artwork's failure as pigments degraded. This talk examines how artists and their audiences understood the fleeting nature of colors in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The widely recognized breakdown of certain pigments highlighted the environmental transformation and ultimate ephemerality of the work of art. Elizabeth Rice Mattison is the Andrew W. Mellon Curator of Academic Programming and Curator of European Art at the Hood Museum at Dartmouth College.
Individuals who join Friends of MAP share in the thrill of historical discovery thanks to special experiences reserved just for them, including the MAP Forum (our online lecture series), and a host of other features such as weekly free lessons in reading Italian documents called “Friday Lunch Letters.”
