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We are pleased to announce the program for the int We are pleased to announce the program for the international conference THE JEWS, THE ARTS, AND THE MEDITERRANEAN (1450-1750), organised in collaboration with the Université de Versailles–Saint-Quentin and the Fondazione Ugo e Olga Levi.

The conference will take place in Palazzo Alberti, Florence, on 12 June 2026. Email education@medici.org to RSVP.

A period of major sociopolitical transformations and profound cultural and spiritual ruptures—from the discovery of the New World to the rise of religious dissent—the early modern era marked for Jews the beginning of a long phase of arbitrary legal impositions, among which were the creation of ghettos, first in Italy and then in the rest of Europe. Despite these legal, economic, and social discriminations, small groups of Jewish intellectuals, artists, musicians, and artisans managed to weave fruitful relationships with the cultural and political elites of Italian and Southern European courts. Starting from this premise, some strands of historiography have often failed to recognize the interpenetrating interactions that took place beyond, and the connections that were triggered between different social groups thanks to the porous nature of the barriers of separation.
The purpose of this conference is to identify, contextualize, and historically define the significance of these phenomena; to analyze the education, working conditions, and material production of Jewish musicians, artists, and artisans in the early modern Mediterranean. All forms of artistic production (music, visual arts, performing arts) and craftsmanship were essential activities for the functioning of daily life, and in particular for the artistic life (theater, concerts, performances, visual arts) of a court, a city, or a given place.

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Introducing another MAP Fellow: Lorenzo Giglio, wh Introducing another MAP Fellow: Lorenzo Giglio, whose research focuses on the reception of medieval literature in the early Renaissance.

Stay tuned to meet the last of our fellows, who are conducting their research in Florence as we speak!

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Congratulations to Kyna Hamill on the publication Congratulations to Kyna Hamill on the publication of her book THEATRE AND PRINT CULTURE IN THE MANNER OF JACQUES CALLOT (Routledge 2026)—part of which was researched during a Senior Visiting Research Fellowship at MAP.

This book aims to shuffle some long-standing attitudes about the relationship between theatre and print culture. Examining the influential print series Balli di Sfessania di Jacomo Callot, a suite of 24 prints designed and etched by Jacques Callot in 1621–1622, this book highlights the influence of visual culture on commedia dell’arte historiography and its performance traditions since the early seventeenth century. Callot’s ability to captivate viewers through scale, dynamic figures, and innovative spatial schemes has manifested an impassioned gaze by many admirers.

Through acts of collecting, adulation, and replication, prints from the Balli di Sfessania have been sourced and re-sourced, excavated and mined, copied and misread, over time as visual records of the past. With a focus on one image group as a case study for the trans-media circulation of images over four hundred years, scholars will find new ways to engage with prints wielding highly impressionable status and reproducibility.

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CALL FOR PAPERS – INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP:The Netwo CALL FOR PAPERS - INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP:The Networks and Legacies of Ottaviano de’ Medici
Friday, 6 November 2026
The Medici Archive Project, Palazzo Alberti, Florence

Submissions Due 15 July 2026

The Medici Archive Project, the Gallerie degli Uffizi, and the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz - Max-Planck-Institut (KHI) are partnering on a broader research initiative dedicated to Ottaviano de’ Medici (1484–1546), a crucial yet still overlooked figure in the political and cultural milieu of early sixteenth-century Florence. This overarching project is connected to the exhibition on Ottaviano’s collection at the Gallerie degli Uffizi (Fall 2027).
Under this aegis, the Medici Archive Project is organizing an international workshop on 6 November 2026. Conceived as a research-oriented and discussion-driven event, this workshop will be held in conjunction with a conference at the KHI in Florence (5 November 2026).
 
The principal goal of this workshop is to reassess the breadth and gravitas of Ottaviano de’ Medici’s political, economic, familial, artistic, and intellectual networks. Particular attention will be paid to his relations with the members of the Medici establishment—including, Leo X, Clement VII, Ippolito, Alessandro, Cosimo, and Catherine—as well as with all those figures that gravitated around epicenters of dissent and anti-Medici tenets. His role as broker in between constituencies, collections, factions, generations, and traditions will also be examined. Another goal of this workshop is to better visualize the extent to which Ottaviano’s contributions have shaped the cultural patterns and political trajectories of the Medici principate. Finally, equal importance will be given to mapping out Ottaviano’s archival legacy, which is still patchy and impressionistic.

The organizers invite proposals for 20-minute papers, in English or Italian, that present new, unpublished, and innovative research.
Click the link in our bio for more information including how to submit an abstract.

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