CONF: The Sistine Chapel: International Study Day (Florence/Rome, 5 -6 October 2015)

The Sistine Chapel: International Study Day
Institut für Kunstgeschichte der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München and Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte Munich in collaboration with Musei Vaticani, Gabinetto Disegni & Stampe degli Uffizi and Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut
Florence / Rome-Vatican, October 5 – 6, 2015
PROGRAM
Monday, 5 October 2015
FLORENCE: Kunsthistorisches Institut – Max-Planck-Institut, Palazzo Grifoni Budini Gattai, Via dei Servi 51
10.00
Welcome & Introduction
(Arnold Nesselrath, Musei Vaticani & Ulrich Pfisterer, LMU Munich)
10.30
Stefano Pierguidi (Sapienza, Rome): “The Rivalry of the Quattrocento Painters”
11.10
Ulrich Pfisterer (LMU, Munich): “Speed! On the chronology of the Quattrocento frescoes”
11.50
Tristan Weddigen (University of Zürich): “Raphael’s Tapestries for the Sistine Chapel”
FLORENCE: Gabinetto dei Disegni e delle Stampe degli Uffizi, Via della Ninna 5
13.30 – 15.30
Introduction Marzia Faietti (Uffizi; Gabinetto Disegni & Stampe): “The ‘Piermatteo d’Amelia’-drawing of the ceiling”
ROME-VATICAN: Musei Vaticani, Viale Vaticano
19.30 – 22.00
Visit Sistine Chapel
Introduction Chiara Franceschini (Italian Academy, Columbia Univ./EHESS Paris): “Movement in the Sistine Chapel”
Tuesday, 6 October
ROME-VATICAN: Musei Vaticani, Lecture Room, Viale Vaticano
9.30
Peter Howard (Monash University): “The Visual Art of Preaching in the Frescoes of the Sistine Chapel”
10.10
Giovanni Careri (EHESS Paris): “The Ancestors of Christ”
11.30
David Summers (University of Virginia): “The Great Sabbath. Michelangelo, Pico, and the Sistine Chapel Ceiling”
12.10
Kim Butler (American University, Washington DC):
“Im/maculate Bodies in the Sistine Chapel”
14.00
Vitale Zanchettin (Musei Vaticani): “L’architettura dipinta della volta”
14.40
Peter Gillgren (Stockholm University): “Being in the Sistine Chapel: The Wennerberg Experience”
15.20
Bernadine Barnes (Wake Forest University): “Viewing the Last Judgment from within and outside the Sistine Chapel”
16.40
Peter Lukehart (CASVA Washington): “The Afterlife of Nude Saints in Michelangelo’s Last Judgment”
17.20
Massimiliano Rossi (Università del Salento): “L”età dell’oro’: la maniera moderna nella Sistina come paradigma epocale”
Discussants
Carmen Bambach (Metropolitan Museum NYC)
Matteo Burioni (LMU Munich)
Michael Cole (Columbia University NYC)
Tobias Daniels (Bibliotheca Hertziana / Max-Planck-Institute Rome)
Ana Debenedetti (Victoria & Albert Museum, London)
Sybille Ebert-Schifferer (Bibliotheca Hertziana / Max-Planck-Institute Rome)
Thomas Ertl (University of Vienna)
Marc Evans (Victoria & Albert Museum, London)
Fabian Jonietz (KHI, Florence)
Klaus Krüger (FU Berlin)
Florian Métral (Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne)
Philippe Morel (INHA Paris)
Cristina Ruggero (LMU Munich)
Andreas Schumacher (Alte Pinakothek Munich)
Gerhard Wolf (KHI, Florence)
Organization: Arnold Nesselrath (Musei Vaticani and Humboldt University, Berlin) & Ulrich Pfisterer (LMU Munich)

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