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MAP Forum is an online program sponsored by the Friends of the Medici Archive Project, offering free weekly webinars to a diverse, global audience. Each week, scholars, researchers, curators, and specialists present live talks on topics related to early modern art and history, sharing insights from their latest publications and research projects.
Each week, scholars, researchers, curators, and specialists present live talks on topics related to early modern art and history, sharing insights from their latest publications and research projects.
The webinars are followed by a Q&A session, fostering dynamic conversations between the speakers and attendees. The aim is to make the most recent and cutting-edge research
accessible to a global community, free of charge, while providing a platform for scholars and leading researchers in the field to disseminate their knowledge to an expanded network of engaged and interested audiences.
Negar Rokhgar is an art historian specializing in early modern Europe and the Islamic world. Negar earned her PhD from Rutgers University in 2020 and is currently teaching in the Department of History of Art and Design at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. She has been affiliated with the Medici Archive Project since 2018, first as a Samuel H. Kress Fellow and later as an Eva Schler Postdoctoral Fellow. In her current role, she brings her expertise and passion to hosting this engaging and informative series.
For weekly invitations with Zoom links, please visit our homepage.
You can also watch all our previous lectures on our YouTube channel.
2025-26
2024-25
2023-24
2022-23
2021-22
2020-21
Federica Gigante -Stockings for Sale: Enslaved Muslim Makers and Textile Trade in Early Modern Italy
MAP FORUM - 10 March 2026 Federica Gigante - Stockings for Sale: ...
Christina Lamb Chakalova - Magnificence and Illusionistic Spectacle
MAP FORUM - 3 March 2026 Magnificence and Illusionistic Spectacle: ...
Arnold Witte - Giovanni Bellini’s paintings of the half-length Madonna with Child
MAP FORUM - 24 February 2026 Is Venice an Island? Giovanni Bellini’s ...
Meredith K. Ray - MAP FORUM
MAP FORUM - 17 February 2026 Twenty-Five Women Who Shaped the Italian ...
Perspectives in Research - MAP FORUM
MAP FORUM - 27 January 2026 MAP Fellows' Colloquium with talks by ...
Corey Tazzara - MAP FORUM
MAP FORUM - 20 January 2026 Filippo Sassetti on Trade, Institutions, ...
Francesco Freddolini - MAP FORUM
MAP FORUM - 10 February 2026 Eurasian Tuscany: The Grand Dukes and ...
Federica Francesconi - MAP FORUM
MAP FORUM - 3 February 2026 Living between Walls: Jewish Homes, ...
Andrew Hui - MAP FORUM
MAP FORUM - 13 January 2026 The Studiolo and the Soul: The Invention ...
Alexander Noelle - MAP FORUM
MAP FORUM - 16 December 2025 Inside the Exhibition: Filippino Lippi ...
Ahmad Guliyev - MAP FORUM
MAP FORUM - 9 December 2025 Textiles on the Move: Venetian and Safavid ...
Marco Musillo - MAP FORUM
MAP FORUM - 2 December 2025 From the Archive to the Collezione Aulica: ...
Rebecca B. Cappelli, Noah Margulis, Miguel Soto Garrido - MAP FORUM
MAP FORUM - 25 November 2025 Spotlight on Scholarship: MAP Fellows' ...
Paul Kalpan - MAP FORUM
MAP FORUM - 18 November 2025 The Black Presence in Florence and ...
Paula Hohti - MAP FORUM
MAP FORUM - 11 November 2025 Stitches of the Past: Reimagining Early ...
Philippe Canguilhem - MAP FORUM
MAP FORUM - 4 November 2025 Music and Culture in Mid-Sixteenth Century ...
Massimo Bomboni - MAP FORUM
MAP FORUM - 28 October 2025 The Medici and the Dutch Golden Age: ...
Ingrid Rowland - MAP FORUM
MAP FORUM - 21 October 2025 The Historiae of Sigismondo Tizio, ...
Brian Brege - MAP FORUM
MAP FORUM - 14 October 2025 Trading at the Edge of Empires: Francesco ...
Megan Moran - MAP FORUM
MAP FORUM - 7 October 2025 Gender and Family Networks in Early Modern ...
Nancy Bisaha - MAP FORUM
MAP FORUM - 30 September 2025 Pope Pius II and the Concept of European ...
Pamela Jones - MAP FORUM
MAP FORUM - 8 April 2025 Celebrating Teresa of Avila: The Discalced ...
Jacqueline Marie Musacchio - MAP FORUM
MAP FORUM - 29 April 2025 Beautiful, Clever, Bold, Bad, and ...
David Mesquita - MAP FORUM
MAP FORUM - 11 March 2025 Estêvão Rodrigues de Castro (1559-1637): A ...
Margeret Meserve - MAP FORUM
MAP FORUM - 6 May 2025 Only Girls Did That: Renaissance Studies as ...
Benedetta Chizzolini - MAP FORUM
MAP FORUM - 1 April 2025 Enslaved Women and Gender Violence in Early ...
Leah Redmond Chang - MAP FORUM
MAP FORUM - 4 March 2025 Young Queens: Writing a Feminist Narrative ...
Ali Humayun Akhtar - MAP FORUM
MAP FORUM - 25 March 2025 Why Renaissance Artists Built a Global ...
Livia Lupi - MAP FORUM
MAP FORUM - 22 April 2025 Painting Architecture in Early Renaissance ...
Miguel Taín Guzmán - MAP FORUM
MAP FORUM - 13 May 2025 Seventeenth-Century Spain in the Urban Views ...
Sheila Barker - MAP FORUM
MAP FORUM - 15 April 2025 Artemisia Gentileschi’s Male Friendships ...
Morgan Ng - MAP FORUM
MAP FORUM - 18 March 2025 Form and Fortification: The Art of Military ...
Marcello Simonetta - MAP FORUM
MAP FORUM - 10 December 2024 The Vettori Brothers: Machiavelli's ...
Sam Kennerly - MAP FORUM
MAP FORUM - 25 February 2025 How to Send a Letter in Sixteenth-Century ...
Inbar Strul-Dabull - MAP FORUM
MAP FORUM - 18 February 2025 In Her Own Words and Beyond: Maria de’ ...
Susan Naramore - MAP FORUM
MAP FORUM - 11 February 2025 Creating Lucrezia Donati: From the Muse ...
Emma Iadanza - MAP FORUM
MAP FORUM - 28 January 2025 Cosimo de' Pazzi's "Continued Devotion" ...
Elizabeth A. Lehfeldt - MAP FORUM
MAP FORUM - 4 February 2025 Beyond Enclosure: Convent Households in ...
Babette Bohn - MAP FORUM
MAP FORUM - 21 January 2025 Bologna pittrice e Roma pittrice nel ...
Andrea Celli - MAP FORUM
MAP FORUM - 7 January 2025 Dante's Inferno in Palermo: Cristoforo ...
Christopher Platts - MAP FORUM
MAP FORUM - 14 January 2025 Rediscovering Catharina van Hemessen’s ...
Bianca De Divitiis - MAP FORUM
MAP FORUM - 3 December 2024 The Renaissance in Southern Italy: ...
Gary Schwartz - MAP FORUM
MAP FORUM - 26 November 2024 Jewish Art Collectors Take Rembrandt to ...
Catherine Powell-Warren - MAP FORUM
MAP FORUM - 19 November 2024 Collective Nature: Female Community and ...
Christian Kleinbub - MAP FORUM
MAP FORUM - 12 November 2024 Leonardo and Religion Although it is ...
William Barcham - MAP FORUM
MAP FORUM - 5 November 2024 Titian in the Nineteenth Century: from ...
Christopher R. Marshall - MAP FORUM
MAP FORUM - 29 October 2024 “The rest is easy”: Problems of ...
Stefano Dall'Aglio - MAP FORUM
MAP FORUM - 22 October 2024 The Collector of Wonders: Leopoldo de’ ...
Noelia García Perézcase - MAP FORUM
MAP FORUM - 15 October 2024 Portraiture, Gender, and Power in ...
Emily Michelson - MAP FORUM
MAP FORUM - 8 October 2024 The Saturday Sermon: Catholic Mission and ...
Florence Forte - MAP FORUM
MAP FORUM - 1 October 2024 Women Latinists and The Republic of Letters ...
Jane Stevens Crawshaw - MAP FORUM
MAP FORUM . 24 September 2024 Cleaning Up Renaissance Italy: ...
Jonathan Nelson - MAP FORUM
MAP FORUM - 17 September 2024 Focusing on portraits, this talk ...
Steven J. Cody - MAP FORUM
MAP FORUM - 23 April 2024 Andrea del Sarto and the Splendor of the ...
Nina Lamal, Paola Molino, and Davide Boerio - MAP FORUM
MAP FORUM - 30 April 2024 Medici Florence as the Center of News: A ...
Tamara Smithers - MAP FORUM
MAP FORUM - 14 May 2024 Memorials for Early Modern Artists & Cult ...
Rose Byfleet - MAP FORUM
MAP FORUM - 7 May 2024 Bianca Capello: The Medici Grand Duchess ...
Francesca Bregoli - MAP FORUM
MAP FORUM - 21 May 2024 Intimate Affairs: Family, Commerce, and ...
Rebecca Arnheim - MAP FORUM
MAP FORUM - 28 May 2024 Life in Drawing: The Portrait Drawing as a ...
A Festive Holiday Gala with the Summer 2024 Interns - MAP FORUM
MAP FORUM - 17 December 2024 A Festive Holiday Gala with the Summer ...
Renaissance genius? - Roundtable with John Spike, Elizabeth Pilliod, Ada Palmer
MAP FORUM - 6 June 2024 Renaissance genius? - Roundtable with John ...
Gift Giving In The Archives - Presented by the Fellows, Staff, and Scholars of MAP
MAP FORUM - 19 December 2023 Gift Giving In The Archives - Presented ...
Migration Patterns in Early Modern Italy - Roundtable
MAP FORUM - 30 January 2024 Migration Patterns in Early Modern Italy - ...
New Approaches to Teaching Renaissance Art - a Roundtable by Fabrizio Nevola and Eric Hupe
MAP FORUM - 19 March 2024 New Approaches to Teaching Renaissance Art - ...
Loretta Vandi - MAP FORUM
MAP FORUM - 29 September 2023 Margherita de’ Soderini's Educational ...
Erin Giffin - MAP FORUM
MAP FORUM - 3 October 2023 Mapping a Career across Giacomo Lauro's ...
Piergabriele Mancuso & Alice S. Legé - MAP FORUM
MAP FORUM - 10 October 2023 "The Jews, the Medici, and the Ghetto of ...
Stefanie Siegmund - MAP FORUM
MAP FORUM - 17 October 2023 Segno, status, and service: The importance ...
Vasileios Syros - MAP FORUM
MAP FORUM - 24 October 2023 Jews, Greeks, and the Early Modern State ...
Antonia Fondaras - MAP FORUM
MAP FORUM - 7 December 2023 Saint Augustine’s Double: Depicting the ...
Elizabeth Pilliod - MAP FORUM
MAP FORUM - 14 November 2023 Pontormo, Michelangelo, and Rubens This ...
Kyna Hamill - MAP FORUM
MAP FORUM - 21 November 2023 Jacques Callot, Print Culture, and the ...
Shannon McHugh - MAP FORUM
MAP FORUM - 28 November 2023 Petrarch and the Making of Gender in ...
Jasmine Cloud - MAP FORUM
MAP FORUM - 5 December 2023 The Roman Forum stood as one of the most ...
Andaleeb Banta, Christina Faraday - MAP FORUM
MAP FORUM - 12 December 2023 Making Her Mark: Anatomy of an Exhibition ...
Patricia Fortini Brown - MAP FORUM
MAP FORUM - 9 January 2024 The Venetian Bride: In Context In her ...
Irene Fosi - MAP FORUM
MAP FORUM - 16 January 2024 Mobility and Danger: The Roman Inquisition ...
Francesca Fiorani - MAP FORUM
MAP FORUM - 23 January 2024 The Shadow Drawing: How Science Taught ...
Adelina Modesti - MAP FORUM
MAP FORUM - 6 February 2024 Vittoria della Rovere, Grand Duchess of ...
Jill Pederson - MAP FORUM
MAP FORUM - 13 February 2024 Leonardo, Bramante, and the Academia: Art ...
Timothy McCall - MAP FORUM
MAP FORUM - 27 February 2024 Making the Renaissance Man: Masculinity ...
Peta Motture - MAP FORUM
MAP FORUM - 5 March 2024 Revisiting 'Donatello: Sculpting the ...
Mattia Zangari, Elisabetta Lurgo - MAP FORUM
MAP FORUM - 12 March 2024 Mystic Women in 17th-Century Florence ...
Sheila ffolliott - MAP FORUM
MAP FORUM - 26 March 2024 The Wicked Queen: Cinematic Renditions of ...
Nelleke de Vries - MAP FORUM
MAP FORUM - 2 April 2024 Face to Face. Reappraising the Oeuvre of ...
Sandra Suárez - MAP FORUM
MAP FORUM - 6 April 2024 Women, Sex and Soldiers in the Early Modern ...
Joanne Allen - Transforming the Church Interior in Renaissance Florence
MAP FORUM - 6 September 2022 Transforming the Church Interior in ...
Emanuel Buttigieg - A 17th-Century Cruise with the Knights of Malta
MAP FORUM - 13 September 2022 A 17th-Century Cruise with the Knights ...
Kenta Tokushige - MAP FORUM
MAP FORUM - 4 April 2023
Robin O'Bryan - MAP FORUM
MAP FORUM - 28 June 2022 Dynasty and Dwarfs in Medici Art: Ten ...
Johanna Vernqvist - MAP FORUM
MAP FORUM - 21 June 2022 Gaspara Stampa: A Poet Philosopher One of the ...
Brian Sandberg - MAP FORUM
MAP FORUM - 14 June 2022 Crusading Culture and Religious Violence in ...
Elizabeth Pilliod - MAP FORUM
MAP FORUM - 24 May 2022 Fact over Hearsay, Inuendo and Slander: ...
Joel Schwindt - MAP FORUM
MAP FORUM - 17 May 2022 Monteverdi and Striggio's Orfeo: Modern Music, ...
Adelina Modesti - MAP FORUM
MAP FORUM - 10 May 2022 The Strategies of Female Patronage: Vittoria ...
Janis Bell - MAP FORUM
MAP FORUM - 3 May 2022 Leonardo Manuscripts in Milan: Mystery, Murder, ...
Rebecca J. Long - MAP FORUM
MAP FORUM - 26 April 2022 El Greco and Italy Born in Crete as ...
Robert B. Simon - MAP FORUM
MAP FORUM - 19 April 2022 An Incomplete Damnatio Memoriae: Recovering ...
Elizabeth Cleland - MAP FORUM
MAP FORUM - 12 April 2022 Catherine de' Medici and her Valois ...
Fikri Cicek - MAP FORUM
MAP FORUM - 5 April 2022 Chemical Medicine for Shared Court Diseases: ...
Patricia McCobb - MAP FORUM
MAP FORUM - 29 March 2022 The Story of Diomede Leoni and His Horti ...
Alison Brown - MAP FORUM
MAP FORUM - 22 March 2022 Piero di Lorenzo de' Medici: Playing the ...
Timothy McCall - MAP FORUM
MAP FORUM - 15 March 2022 Renaissance Men's Fashion: Ten Decisive ...
Marcello Simonetta - MAP FORUM
MAP FORUM - 8 March 2022 The Gianfigliazzi Papers: a New Source about ...
Diego Pirillo - MAP FORUM
MAP FORUM - 1 March 2022 Renaissance Refugees: Religious Migrations in ...
Babette Bohn - MAP FORUM
MAP FORUM - 22 February 2022 Rediscovering the Women Artists of ...
David Ekserdjian - MAP FORUM
MAP FORUM - 15 February 2022 The Italian Renaissance Altarpiece in Our ...
Joseph Eliav - MAP FORUM
MAP FORUM - 8 February 2022 Perfected forms and the fate of empires: ...
William Connell - MAP FORUM
MAP FORUM - 1 February 2022 The Secretary’s Last Rites: Machiavelli on ...
Elizabeth Currie - MAP FORUM
MAP FORUM - 25 January 2022 Fashion Hits and Misses during the Reigns ...
André Belo - MAP FORUM
MAP FORUM - 18 January 2022 The Arrest of the false King Sebastian by ...
Erin Giffin - MAP FORUM
MAP FORUM - 11 January 2022 Retracing the Home of Mary: Replicas of ...
John Henderson - MAP FORUM
MAP FORUM - 4 January 2022 Imagining the Pox in Renaissance Italy This ...
Sara Mansutti - MAP FORUM
MAP FORUM - 28 December 2021 Cosimo Bartoli in Venice: Humanist, ...
Thomas Golsenne - MAP FORUM
MAP FORUM - 21 December 2021 Carlo Crivelli and Mystical Materialism ...
Ethan Matthew Kavaler - MAP FORUM
MAP FORUM - 12 December 2021 Sex and Death in Renaissance Kassel: The ...
Kirstin Noreen - MAP FORUM
MAP FORUM - 7 December 2021 The Sancta Sanctorum in Rome and the ...
Anthony Russell - MAP FORUM
MAP FORUM - 30 November 2021 The Rewards of Virtù and the Religion of ...
Michelle O'Malley - MAP FORUM
MAP FORUM - 23 November 2021 Botticelli and Workshop Management in the ...
Jonathan Ligrani - MAP FORUM
MAP FORUM - 16 November 2021 The Residue of Performance: Scribal ...
Rebekah Compton - MAP FORUM
MAP FORUM - 9 November 2021 Art for Hermits: Medici Devotion and the ...
Carol Richardson - MAP FORUM
MAP FORUM - 2 November 2021 Bernini's Revenge? Art, Sex and Religion ...
Sheila Barker - MAP FORUM
MAP FORUM - 26 October 2021 Poisons at the Medici Court: From Secrets ...
Natalie Tomas - MAP FORUM
MAP FORUM - 21 October 2021 A Life in Letters: Maria Salviati de' ...
Jennifer Sliwka - MAP FORUM
MAP FORUM - 12 October 2021 A Florentine Vision of Paradise: ...
Lorraine Karafel - MAP FORUM
MAP FORUM - 5 October 2021 Tapestries for a Medici Pope: Raphael’s ...
Rosamond Mack - MAP FORUM
MAP FORUM - 21 September 2021 Verrochio's Art of Dressing: Sculpture ...
Stephen Campbell - MAP FORUM
MAP FORUM - 14 September 2021 Towards a New Geography of Art in Italy, ...
Kate Lowe - MAP FORUM
MAP FORUM - 7 September 2021 Consciousness of the World: A Papal ...
Carlo Falciani - MAP FORUM
MAP FORUM - 31 August 2021 The presentation will be in Italian and ...
Brian Brege - MAP FORUM
MAP FORUM - 8 June 2021 The Empire That Wasn't: The Grand Duchy of ...
Alexander Röstel - MAP FORUM
MAP FORUM - 15 June 2021 The House and Collection of Giuliano, Antonio ...
Sheila Barker - MAP FORUM
MAP FORUM - 22 June 2021 "The Immensity of the Universe": Giovanna ...
Sheila ffolliott - MAP FORUM
MAP FORUM - 4 May 2021 Caput Mundi: The Medici in Rome When we think ...
Corey Tazzara - MAP FORUM
MAP FORUM - 18 May 2021 Toleration and Trade in Livorno 1650-1700 ...
Beth Glixon - MAP FORUM
MAP FORUM - 25 May 2021 Barbara Strozzi and her Opus: The Excellent ...
Linda Wolk-Simon - MAP FORUM
MAP FORUM - 11 May 2021 Ten Meditations on Bronzino's Portrait of ...
David Drogin - MAP FORUM
MAP FORUM - 27 April 2021 Medieval and Renaissance Bolognese ...
Gregory Buchakjian - MAP FORUM
MAP FORUM - 20 April 2021 Italian Baroque Paintings in Beirut Dr. ...
Carole Dagher - MAP FORUM
MAP FORUM - 6 April 2021 The Stay of Fakhr-el-Din ("Fakhreddine") at ...
Julia Vicioso - MAP FORUM
MAP FORUM - 13 April 2021 The Arrival of Renaissance Architecture in ...
Maurizio Arfaioli - MAP FORUM
MAP FORUM - 23 March 2021 The Memory of the Condottiere: Giovanni de’ ...
Jesse Locker - MAP FORUM
MAP FORUM - 9 March 2021 Ten Images from the Last Will and Testament ...
Piergabriele Mancuso - MAP FORUM
MAP FORUM - 2 March 2021 Ten famous (and not so famous) Jewish people ...
Negar Rokhgar - MAP FORUM
MAP FORUM - 23 February 2021 Early Modern Visions Of Persia: Ten ...
Sheila Barker - MAP FORUM
MAP FORUM - 16 February 2021 Ten Recent Discoveries about Artemisia ...
Antonia Fondaras - MAP FORUM
MAP FORUM - 2 February 2021 Piero di Cosimo's Santo Spirito Visitation ...
Philip Mansel - MAP FORUM
MAP FORUM - 9 February 2021 Louis XIV and The Power of Women One of ...
Tamar Herzig - MAP FORUM
MAP FORUM - 26 January 2021 The Life of a Jewish Artist in the ...
Lukasz Hajdrych - MAP FORUM
MAP FORUM - 19 January 2021 "That She Bewitched my Son..." Poland's ...
Carla D'Arista - MAP FORUM
MAP FORUM - 5 January 2021 Botticelli and the Pucci-Bini Wedding of ...
What the Medici Ate (and Drank) - MAP FORUM
MAP FORUM - 22 December 2020 Holiday Edition: What the Medici Ate (and ...
Brendan Dooley - MAP FORUM
MAP FORUM - 15 December 2020 The World ... according to early modern ...
Aimee Ng, Alessio Assonitis - MAP FORUM
MAP FORUM - 8 December 2020 Casting the Medici: Ten Famous Medici in ...
Sheila ffolliott - MAP FORUM
MAP FORUM - 24 November 2020 Catherine de' Medici: Ten Revealing ...
Cristiano Zanetti, Sheila Barker - MAP FORUM
MAP FORUM - 20 October 2020 Galileo Between Craft and Court: A ...
John T. Spike - MAP FORUM
MAP FORUM - 3 November 2020 Amazing Grace: Caravaggio's Later ...
Alessio Assonitis - MAP FORUM
MAP FORUM - 13 October 2020 Ten Astonishing Documents in the Medici ...
Maurizio Arfaioli - MAP FORUM
MAP FORUM - 17 November 2020 Strange Weapons, Strange Users: Ten ...
Mark Spyropoulos - MAP FORUM
MAP FORUM - 6 October 2020 Ten Steps to Recovering Lost Music of the ...
Sheila Barker - MAP FORUM
MAP FORUM - 29 September 2020 Did Flowers Have a Renaissance? Long ...
Alessio Assonitis - MAP FORUM
MAP FORUM - 22 September 2020 The Life of Cosimo de’ Medici in Ten Documents