CONF: Giuliano da Sangallo (Florence, 17-18 November 2016)

Giuliano da Sangallo 1516-2016
Study Day
Florence, Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut,
Palazzo Grifoni Budini Gattai, Via dei Servi 51, November 17 – 18, 2016
The 500th anniversary of the death of Giuliano da Sangallo offers the opportunity to examine the ambivalent reception of the artist’s work.
Indeed, although he was a crucial figure in the architectural panorama of his time, Giuliano’s output and personality remain elusive. His
fragmentary and sometimes misunderstood oeuvre has often been described as caught between two styles and two eras, the Florentine Quattrocento
and the Roman High Renaissance. Only recently have almost all his architectural works been examined in their complexity and completeness
as the subject of a monograph (FROMMEL 2014), a publication that provides a stimulus for further research on the under-examined aspects
of his multifaceted production.
Giuliano’s training as legnaiuolo, for example, sheds light both on the specificity of Florentine architectural culture and on this artist’s
own design methods, in which architectural models played an important role. Similarly, his corpus of drawings and the technical
characteristics of their execution offer an alternative understanding of the “evolution” of representational conventions over the course of
the Renaissance, one which challenges the traditional history of an improbable linear progress in this field.
Furthermore, Giuliano da Sangallo’s interactions with and responses to his contemporaries are still to be explored. The overlaps and
continuities within his large family of sculptors and architects – starting with his brother Antonio the Elder and ending with his son,
Francesco, in Florence, and his nephew Antonio the Younger in Rome – also invite further research. In particular, the techniques,
morphologies, and evolution of the fortifications that have been attributed to Giuliano and Antonio the Elder offer a wealth of
possibilities for further study. Their catalogue of military architecture is as broad as it is unexplored, and spans a time frame of
almost half a century.
Moreover, the drawing practices of the workshop strongly attest to the artists’ interweaving of figurative imagery and architectural
inventions. The variety of genres explored by this polymorphic workshop has not yet been investigated from a broad perspective, one that
considers sculpture alongside painting and decorative arts alongside large-scale architecture.
The study day, organized by Sabine Frommel, Dario Donetti and Alessandro Nova, to be held 17-18 November 2016 at the
Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut, will present innovative and unpublished contributions on Giuliano da
Sangallo, thus offering a new perspective on both Tuscan and Roman architecture between the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.
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PROGRAMMA
giovedì 17 novembre
14.30
Dario Donetti
introduzione
Il disegno e l’antico
presiede Cammy Brothers
14.50
Christof Thoenes
La Basilica Vaticana nei disegni degli Uffizi: qualche precisazione
15.20
Francesco Benelli
«Nomi e vochabolj dj vetruvjo»: studi su Vitruvio (e su Alberti) di Giuliano da Sangallo
16.20
Chloé Démonet
«Misurato a punto»: rilievo architettonico e disegno in scala nel corpus di Giuliano da Sangallo
16.50
Huberthus Günther
Gli studi di Giuliano da Sangallo per l’architettura antica
17.20 pausa
Architettura militare
presiede Dario Donetti
17.30
Marco Frati
«necessario […] alla sicurtà»: le mura sangallesche di Empoli, Poggio Imperiale e Firenzuola
18.00
Maria Teresa Pepe
Giuliano da Sangallo ad Arezzo e nell’aretino: un sistema difensivo territoriale
18.30
Giovanni Santucci
«Giuliano […] architetto, persona non molto intendente di fortezze»: la Cittadella Nuova di Pisa
venerdì 18 novembre
Documenti e biografia
presiede Berthold Hub
9.00
Doris Carl
Francesco di Bartolo Giamberti. Neue Forschungen zu seinem professionellen Profil und seinem sozialen Umfeld
9.30
Alexander Röstel
Giuliano da Sangallo at the Innocenti
10.00
Christoph L. Frommel
La calligrafia nei disegni di Giuliano da Sangallo
10.30 pausa
Nuove attribuzioni
presiede Alessandro Nova
10.40
Francesco Caglioti
Un Crocifisso di Giuliano da Sangallo a Roma
11.10
Carla D’Arista
The Archaeology of a Legacy: the Pucci Villa in Scandicci
11.40 pausa
Ricezione
presiede Sabine Frommel
11.50
Costantino Ceccanti
Ventura Vitoni a Pistoia
12.20
Flaminia Bardati
Giuliano da Sangallo e Domenico da Cortona
12.50
Sabine Frommel e Alessandro Nova
considerazioni finali
riservata ai relatori e ai moderatori: 15.00
visita al Gabinetto dei Disegni e delle Stampe delle Gallerie degli Uffizi
saluti e benvenuto di Marzia Faietti
Luogo della manifestazione
Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz
Max-Planck-Institut
Palazzo Grifoni Budini Gattai
Via dei Servi 51
50122 Firenze
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