Conferences

Past Conferences

  • The Life and Legacy of Ferdinando I de’ Medici: Medici Prince (1549–1562), Cardinal (1562–1587), and Grand Duke of Tuscany (1587–1609), Palazzo Alberti, Florence, 3 February 2023
  • Food! Gastronomic Discourse in Early Modern Europe, Palazzo Alberti, Florence, 20 January 2023
  • Beyond the Sabbath: Witchcraft and its Stereotypes in Early Modern Europe,  Palazzo Alberti, Florence, 16 September 2022
  • The Medici on the Road, Palazzo Alberti, Florence, 16-17 June 2022
  • The Medici and the Perception of Sub-Saharan Africa (1450-1700), Palazzo Alberti, Florence, 2-3 June 2022
  • The Art of Copying in Early Modern Europe, Palazzo Alberti, Florence, 21 January 2022
  • Medicine in Early Modern Italy: Between Theory and Practice, 1500-1700, Palazzo Alberti, Florence, 19 October 2021

  • Medici Bastardi, seven-lecture series on the Medici illegitimate children, Palazzo Alberti, Florence, January-June 2020

  • Cosimo Divino, twelve-lecture series on the life and career of Cosimo I de’ Medici on the 500th year anniversary of his birth, Palazzo Alberti, Florence, January-June 2019.

  • The Colors of Paradise – Painting Miniatures in Italian Convents, ca. 1300-1700, International Conference, Biblioteca di San Marco, Florence, 11-12 October 2018

  • Carteggio universale di Cosimo I de’ Medici, 1536-1574, Florence, 27 September 2018 (In partnership with the Archivio di Stato)

  • The Medici and the Jews: Religion, Culture and Urban Strategies in Early Modern Florence, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, 13-14 June 2018  (in partnership with Tel Aviv University)

  • Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle (1517-1586), Cardinal and Statesman, Istituto Sangalli, Florence, 25 and 26 January 2018 (in partnership with the Istituto Sangalli)

  • Il Principe dei Granduchi: Convegno di studi su Francesco I de’ Medici, Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, 15 December 2017 (in partnership with Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi)

  • Firenze nella crisi religiosa del Cinquecento, Istituto Sangalli, Florence, 23-25 November 2017 (in partnership with Università degli Studi di Firenze, Centro Culturale “Pietro Martire Vermigli”, Istituto Sangalli per la storia e le culture religiose, Regione Toscana)

  • La comunità ebraica fiorentina tra Medioevo e Rinascimento: studi e ricostruzione virtuale del Ghetto, Florence, SAGAS, 16 November 2017

  • Fra Bartolomeo della Porta (1517-2017), Museo di San Marco, 26-28 October 2017 (in partnership with Museo di San Marco, Polo Museale della Toscana, Provincia Romana di Santa Caterina da Siena, and Nederlands Interuniversitair Kunsthistorisch Instituut)

  • Water in Early Modern Tuscany, 1500-1700, Palazzo Alberti, Florence, 9-10 June 2017 (in partnership with Monash University Prato Centre)

  • A Legacy of Ladies: Women Artists and Patrons at the Late Medici Court, Palazzo Alberti, 21 April 2017

  • Against the Medici: Art and Dissent in Renaissance Italy, Auditorium dell’Archivio di Stato di Firenze, 26-27 May 2016 

  • “…li giudei debbano abitar unidi…”: The Birth and Evolution of the Venetian Ghetto (1516-1797), Palazzo Ducale, Venice, 5-6 May 2016 (in partnership with Beit Venezia, Comitato “I 500 anni del Ghetto di Venezia”, Maimonides Center for Advanced Studies – Universität Hamburg, and Soprintendenza belle arti e paesaggio per Venezia e laguna)

  • Vasari @ Santa Croce, with Syracuse University in Florence and the Opera di Santa Croce. Basilica di Santa Croce, 3 March 2016 (in partnership with Syracuse University)

  • Artemisia Gentileschi: Interpreting New Evidence, Assessing New Attributions, Sala Bianca, Palazzo Pitti, Florence, 6 May 2015; Harold Acton Library, British Institute in Florence, 7 May 2015 (in partnership with the British Institute in Florence and the Polo Museale Fiorentino)

  • Practicing Public Health: Europe 1300-1700, Convento della Santissima Annunziata & Villa I Tatti (Settignano), 12-13 June 2014 (in partnership with Villa I Tatti, The Harvard Center for Italian Renaissance Studies)

  • Cosimo di Giovanni de’ Medici: Magnus Etruriae Dux. Auditorium dell’Archivio di Stato di Firenze, 29-30 May 2014

  • Artiste nel Chiostro. Produzione artistica nei monasteri femminili in età moderna, Sala dell’Annunciazione, Convento della Santissima Annunziata, 4-5 October 2013 (in partnership with Biblioteca Domenicana di Santa Maria Novella)

  • I Medici e il Levante. Culture e dialoghi e il Mediterraneo orientale. Auditorium dell’Archivio di Stato di Firenze, 7 June 2013

  • Βία: Una nuova risorsa per le ricerche nell’archivio mediceo, Auditorium dell’Archivio di Stato di Firenze, 27 November 2012

  • Women Artists in Early Modern Italy, Auditorium dell’Archivio di Stato di Firenze, 2 March 2012

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