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We are delighted to host the presentation of Nuno We are delighted to host the presentation of Nuno Castel-Branco's new volume THE TRAVELING ANATOMIST: NICOLAUS STENO AND THE INTERSECTION OF DISCIPLINES IN EARLY MODERN SCIENCE (University of Chicago Press, 2025).

The presentation will be held at the MAP Offices in Palazzo Alberti, Florence on Tuesday, 14 April 2026 at 4:00pm, and will include a discussion featuring Gaston J. Basile, Stefano Dominici, Abram Kaplan, and the author.

Nicolaus Steno (1638–1686) was a renowned anatomist in his lifetime. He reformed the anatomical understanding of glands, argued that the heart was a muscle, renamed the so-called female testicles as ovaries, and developed a mathematical model for understanding muscle contraction—discoveries that were fundamental to the fields of anatomy and physiology. However, other aspects of Steno’s life have come to define him: his claim that mountains’ strata reveal the history of the Earth and his conversion to Catholicism as a practicing scientist. This excessive attention to his geological discoveries and to asking whether science and religion are compatible, Nuno Castel-Branco argues, has obscured his significant accomplishments as an anatomist. The Traveling Anatomist thus restores Steno to his rightful place as a crucial figure in early modern science.

For further information or to rsvp, email education@medici.org

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MAP FORUM PRESENTS: Vasari at Santa Maria della Pi MAP FORUM PRESENTS: Vasari at Santa Maria della Pieve in Arezzo: Renovation, Commemoration, and the Sacred Image by Sally J. Cornelison
Tuesday, 31 March 2026 at 5pm EST / 11pm CET
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Between 1560 and his death in 1574, Giorgio Vasari renovated the prestigious medieval church of Santa Maria della Pieve in his native Arezzo, adding to its interior four altars and three altarpieces, all of which were removed during a 19th-century renovation of the church. To launch my book Vasari and the Sacred Image, in this talk, I will provide an overview of Vasari’s work at the Pieve, but my principal focus is the monumental, freestanding altar he built for its high chapel. Decorated with nearly 30 sculpted and painted images and now in Arezzo’s Badia of Sts. Flora and Lucilla, the high altar also served as Vasari's burial chapel. I will explore the unique place it occupies within the tradition of funerary monuments and chapels made by and for early modern Italian artists and architects, as well as its significance as the most personal work of Vasari’s long and prolific artistic career.

Sally Cornelison is Professor of Art History at Syracuse University and director of SU's Florence Graduate Program in Italian Renaissance Art. A specialist in the history of Italian late medieval and early modern religious art, her scholarly work has long concerned the history of art, devotion, ritual, iconography, and patronage as they relate to the cult of saints and relics and the sacred paintings of Giorgio Vasari. In addition to book chapters and articles that have appeared in journals such as the Art Bulletin, Renaissance Quarterly, Renaissance Studies, and Art History, she is the author of Art and the Relic Cult of St. Antoninus in Renaissance Florence (2012) and Vasari and the Sacred Image: Renovating Santa Maria della Pieve in Arezzo (2026).

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There's still plenty of time to sign up for our SU There's still plenty of time to sign up for our SUMMER SEMINARS IN PALEOGRAPHY AND ARCHIVAL STUDIES 📜
Two sessions will be held in Florence on 25-30 May and 1-6 June 2026

The principal aim of this seminar is to provide an introduction to Italian archives (with particular emphasis on Florentine archival collections); to examine in depth various documentary typologies; to read diverse early modern scripts; and to to assist in planning research in Italian archives and libraries. Especially relevant for graduate students, university faculty, and museum curators working on Renaissance and early modern topics, this seminar is taught by a team of current and former MAP scholars, as well as university professors and other MAP-affiliated researchers.

Teaching will take place at MAP head offices at Palazzo Alberti in Via de’ Benci 10 and on-site, in public and private archives in Florence.

A working knowledge of Italian is recommended. No previous archival and paleographic experience is required. Teaching will be in English.

Participants will be encouraged to develop their research with archival approaches, meet with instructors individually in order to strategize future archival research in Italy, network with scholars in their field, and gain access to archives and libraries resources pertinent to their research.

Applications for both sessions are due 22 May 2026.
Visit the link in our bio for more information.

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MAP FORUM PRESENTS: Giorgio Vasari without the Med MAP FORUM PRESENTS: Giorgio Vasari without the Medici: The Lives and the Florentine Exiles by Federico Giglio
Tuesday, 24 March 2026 at 5pm EST / 10pm CET
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Giorgio Vasari is widely recognized as the model Medici artist and the main actor of Cosimo I’s cultural program. This lecture seeks to challenge both Vasari himself and the image he deliberately constructed of his own life and career by addressing a central question: is it possible to think of Vasari without the Medici? Focusing on a formative yet often overlooked phase of his career (1541–1554), when he worked largely outside Florence and beyond a direct Medici patronage, I will place Vasari within the broader context shaped by political tensions between the Medici and the Florentine exiles, or fuoriusciti. The first part of the lecture examines Vasari’s interactions with these exile communities in Rome and Venice—merchants, bankers, and intellectuals—with the aim of understanding how these contacts influenced his professional development and may have affected his standing with the Medici family. The second part explores how these networks may have shaped the Roman context of the very genesis of the first edition of the Lives(1550). Based on new and previously unpublished archival evidence, the lecture argues that, at least at its earliest stages, a work still seen and celebrated as emblematic of Medici culture and patronage may in fact have its intellectual roots in anti-Medici exile circles.

Federico Giglio is Assistant Director at the Medici Archive Project. He received his PhD in History of Art from Sapienza University of Rome in October 2025 with a dissertation exploring the relationship between Giorgio Vasari as an artist, diplomat, and historiographer, and the Florentine community in Rome.
He is currently working on a book about Giorgio Vasari and the cultural sphere of anti-Medici exiles in mid-sixteenth-century Italy.

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