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“ARS LONGA, VITA BREVIS”
History is often recounted with big books and explanations of boggling complexity. We’d like to challenge that model—and ourselves—by addressing major themes in a concentrated format and using just ten archival documents or ten historical objects. This is the idea behind our online lecture series: brief showcases of fun, fascinating archival finds.
Every Tuesday, Friends of the Medici Archive Project are treated to the Tuesday Ten Talks led by MAP scholars. On occasion, we partner with other institutions to shake things up a bit and keep everyone on their toes.
Previous Talks
September 22, 2020
The Life of Cosimo I de’ Medici in Ten Documents
Alessio Assonitis – MAP
September 29
Did Flowers Have a Renaissance?
Ten Insights into Early Modern Botany and Gardening
Sheila Barker – MAP
October 6
Ten Steps to Recovering Lost Music of the Medici
Mark Spyropoulos – MAP
October 13
Ten Astonishing Documents in the Medici Archives:
Fake News, Incredible Events, Mind-Blowing Marvels
Alessio Assonitis – MAP
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October 20
*co-organized by TACITROOTS*
Galileo Between Craft and Court:
A Constellation of Ten Documents
Cristiano Zanetti – TACIT ROOTS
Sheila Barker – MAP
October 27
A Visit to Ten Spaces in the Florentine Ghetto
Gabriele Mancuso – MAP
November 3
Amazing Grace: Caravaggio’s Later Paintings
John T. Spike
November 10
*Hosted by the Grolier Club*
Cosimo I de’ Medici: Bibliophile and Grand Duke
Alessio Assonitis – MAP
November 17
Strange Weapons, Strange Users:
Ten Highlights from the Medici ‘Armory’
Maurizio Arfaioli – MAP
November 24
Catherine de’ Medici:
Ten Revealing Letters about an Accidental Queen
Sheila ffolliott – MAP
December 1
*Hosted by GemX*
Tales of Potable Gold, Pregnancy Stones, and Other “Pearls” from the Medici Archives
Sheila Barker – MAP
December 8
*co-Organized with the Frick Collection*
Casting the Medici:
Ten Famous Medici in the Scher Collection of Commemorative Medals
Aimee Ng – The Frick Collection
Alessio Assonitis – MAP
December 15
The World (According to Early Modern News Reports)
Brendan Dooley – MAP
December 22
What the Medici Ate:
Ten Menu Suggestions for the Holidays
Alessio Assonitis and MAP Staff
January 5, 2021
Botticelli and the Pucci-Bini Wedding of 1484
in Ten Documents
Carla D’Arista – MAP Series Author
January 12
*Hosted by the Grolier Club*
Cristofano Bronzini on Women’s Dignity and Nobility:
a Monument of 17th-Century Feminism
Sheila Barker – MAP
January 19
“That she bewitched my son…”
Poland’s Early Modern Witch-Trials
Łukasz Hajdrych – Adam Mickiewicz University
January 26
The Life of a Jewish Artist in the Renaissance
Tamar Herzig – Tel Aviv University
February 2
Piero di Cosimo’s Santo Spirito Visitation Altarpiece in 10 Questions
Antonia Fondaras – MAP
February 9
Louis XIV and the Power of Women
Philip Mansel
February 16
Ten Surprising Recent Discoveries
About Artemisia Gentileschi
Sheila Barker – MAP
February 23
Early Modern Visions of Persia:
Ten Objects in Italian Collections
Negar Rokhgar – Pratt Institute
March 2
Ten Famous (and not-so-famous) Jews
in the Medici Archive
Gabriele Mancuso – MAP
March 9
Ten Images from the Last Will and
Testament of Luca Riva, A Deaf Artist in
Spanish Milan
Jesse Locker – Portland State University
March 16
Co-Organized by the Edinburgh Early Modern Network
Plague, Art, and Empathy in an Age of
Individualism: Raphael’s ‘Pathosformel’
Sheila Barker – MAP
March 23
The Memory of the Condottiere:
Giovanni de’ Medici (a.k.a. ‘Giovanni of the Black Bands’) in
the Medici Archives
Maurizio Arfaioli – MAP
March 30
The Forgotten Sacred Music of the Medici
Mark Spyropoulos and Vox Medicea – MAP
April 6
Lebanon in Italy, Italy in Lebanon, Part I:
The 1613-1615 Stay of Prince Fakhr-el-Din
(‘Fakhreddine’) at the Medici Court
Carole Dagher
April 13
The Arrival of Renaissance Architecture in the New World
Julia Vicioso – MAP
April 20
Lebanon in Italy, Italy in Lebanon, Part II:
Italian Baroque Paintings in Beirut
Gregory Buchakjian – Academie Libanaise des Beaux-Arts
April 27
Medieval and Renaissance Bolognese Professors’ Tombs:
Images of Authority
David Drogin – FIT State University of New York
May 4
Caput Mundi: The Medici in Rome
Sheila ffolliott – MAP & George Mason University
May 11
Ten Meditations
on Bronzino’s Portrait of Andrea Doria
(Or, Why It Is Not a Portrayal of Neptune)
Linda Wolk-Simon – The Institute of Fine Arts
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Upcoming Talks
May 18, 12:00 pm EDT
Toleration and Trade in Livorno, 1600-1750
Corey Tazzara – Scripps College
May 25, 12:00 pm EDT
Barbara Strozzi and her Opus 1:
The Excellent Women of Baroque Music
Beth Glixon – University of Kentucky
June 1, 12:00 pm EDT
Niccolò di Lorenzo della Magna and the
Social World of Renaissance Printing
Lorenz Böninger
June 8, 12:00 EDT
The Empire That Wasn’t: The Grand Duchy of Tuscany’s Global Ambitions
Brian Brege – Syracuse University
June 15, 12:00 pm EDT
The Original Context of Botticelli’s Munich Pietà
Alexander Röstel – Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Dresden
June 22, 12:00 pm EDT
‘The Immensity of the Universe”:
Giovanna Garzoni in Ten Documents
Sheila Barker – MAP
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Summer Break
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Fall Line-up of Speakers:
Carlo Falciani August 31
Kate Lowe September 7
Stephen J. Campbell September 14
Rosamond Mack September 21
Ross King September 28
Lorraine Karafel October 5
Jennifer Sliwka October 12
Natalie Tomas October 21
Simone Testa October 26
Carol M. Richardson November 2
Rebekah Compton November 9
Michelle O’Malley November 23
Anthony Russell November 30
Kirstin Noreen December 7 8:30 am EST
Ethan Kavaler December 14
Janis Bell TBD
Thomas Golsenne TBD
Spring Line-up of Speakers:
Elizabeth Currie January 25 11am EST
William J. Connell February 1
Timothy McCall March 15
