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MAP FORUM PRESENTS: A New Antiquity: Art and Human MAP FORUM PRESENTS: A New Antiquity: Art and Humanity as Universal (1400-1600) by Alessandra Russo
A Dialogue with Katharine Stahlbuhk
Tuesday, 28 April 2026 at 5pm EST / 11pm CET

MAP Forum talks are available exclusively online. To join, click the link in our bio or visit medici.org
Please note that this event will not be recorded and will be held in a meeting format. We kindly ask that all participants keep their microphones muted throughout. If you would like to ask a question or contribute to the discussion, please use the “raise hand” function, and the host will invite you to speak.

We tend to think of sixteenth-century European artistic theory as separate from the artworks displayed in the non-European sections of museums. In A New Antiquity. Art and Humanity as Universal (1400-1600), Alessandra Russo argues otherwise. Instead of considering the European experience of “New World” artifacts and materials through the lenses of “curiosity” and “exoticism,” Russo asks a different question: What impact have these works had on the way we currently think about—and theorize—the arts? In this event Katharine Stahlbuhk will dialogue with Russo about the book.

We warmly encourage participants to read the introduction in advance (link in bio), as this will allow us to devote more time to a lively and substantive discussion during the Q&A.

Alessandra Russo is an art historian, working as Professor and Chair in the Department of Latin American and Iberian Cultures and Director of the Hispanic Institute at Columbia University. Russo curated several exhibitions and participates in advisory boards of the Metropolitan Museum of Arts. At the present, she is completing a monograph entitled The Rise of Curatorship. Sebastiano Biavati and the Early Modern Museum.

Katharine Stahlbuhk, PhD in art history (Uni Hamburg 2018), is scientific researcher in the FNS funded project A Minor Model? Structures, Iconographies and Materials for the Milanese Franciscan Observance between Invention, Disruption and Anachronisms (1420–1550) at SUPSI and associated scholar at the research group Ethico-Aesthetics of the Visual at the KHI–MPI.

#lecture #arthistory  #globalrenaissance
Announcing the program for the workshop THE ARMY O Announcing the program for the workshop THE ARMY OF FLANDERS: CROSSROADS OF PEOPLE, CRUCIBLE OF NATIONS (1567-1706), which will be held at the War Heritage Institute, Brussels on 15-16 May 2026.

In partnership with the Medici Archive Project, the War Heritage Institute of Brussels is organizing a two-day international workshop on the history of the Army of Flanders (1567-1706), arguably the largest multinational European standing army since Roman times, as well as the linchpin of the Spanish Habsburgs’ continental strategy for almost a century.
The workshop will bring together various experts to begin the process of reassessing and redefining the place of the Army of Flanders within the framework of modern scholarship, gathering scattered documentation and identifying new research sites, methodologies, and tools needed to realize its full scientific and public potential.

For more information about the event, click the link in our bio.

#history #flanders #netherlands #paesibassi #militaryhistory #army #renaissance #globalrenaissance #scholarship #conference #brussels #bruxelles #habsburg #hapsburg #empire
The Medici Archive Project 2025-2026 STANDING: Ma The Medici Archive Project 2025-2026

STANDING: Marcello Simonetta, Francesca Toso, Alessio Assonitis, Stefano Mulas, Pasquale Focarile, Simone Picchianti, Giulia Lovison, Assunta Vitale, Federico Giglio, Isabella Gagliardi, Davide Baldi Bellini, Alana O’Brien, Caitlin Petty, Lorenzo Giglio, Kathryn Griffith, Marianna Mancini, Alicia Sempere Marin, Clara Nicolay.
SEATED: Alexander Coscarella, Sara Kata Kovacs, Gaston J. Basile, Oscar Schiavone, Maurizio Arfaioli, Benedetta Chizzolini, Piergabriele Mancuso, Davide Boerio.
MISSING: Sheila Barker, Joao Covolan Silva, Brendan Dooley, Bruce Edelstein, John Henderson, Sefy Hendler, Emma Iadanza, Giovanni Piccolino Boniforti, Negar Rokhgar, Alexander Röstel, Vasileios Syros, Stefania Vai.
The Medici Archive Project 2025-2026 STANDING: Ma The Medici Archive Project 2025-2026

STANDING: Marcello Simonetta, Francesca Toso, Alessio Assonitis, Stefano Mulas, Pasquale Focarile, Simone Picchianti, Giulia Lovison, Assunta Vitale, Federico Giglio, Isabella Gagliardi, Davide Baldi Bellini, Alana O’Brien, Caitlin Petty, Lorenzo Giglio, Kathryn Griffith, Marianna Mancini, Alicia Sempere Marin, Clara Nicolay.
SEATED: Alexander Coscarella, Sara Kata Kovacs, Gaston J. Basile, Oscar Schiavone, Maurizio Arfaioli, Benedetta Chizzolini, Piergabriele Mancuso, Davide Boerio.
MISSING: Sheila Barker, Joao Covolan Silva, Brendan Dooley, Bruce Edelstein, John Henderson, Sefy Hendler, Emma Iadanza, Giovanni Piccolino Boniforti, Negar Rokhgar, Alexander Röstel, Vasileios Syros, Stefania Vai.
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