Margins of early Renaissance painting
Research Seminar
- Date: Oct 16, 2018
- Time: 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
- Speaker: Christopher S. Wood
- Location: Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rom
- Host: Bibliotheca Hertziana - Max-Planck-Institut für Kunstgeschichte
- Contact: paulinyi@biblhertz.it
As if revisiting the religion's primordial decision in favor of an exoteric, rather than esoteric, identity, the Italian painters of the fourteenth century populated Christian subjects and scenes with semi-outsiders: watchers and doubters, anachronistic visitants, sponsors clerical and lay. Pressure on narrative from the outside tested the integrity of the artwork.
Scientific Organisation: David Zagoury Christopher
Christopher S. Wood is Professor in the Department of German, New York University. He is the author of Albrecht Altdorfer and the Origins of Landscape (1993); Forgery, Replica, Fiction: Temporalities of German Renaissance Art (2008); and Anachronic Renaissance (with Alexander Nagel) (2010). His book A History of Art History is forthcoming with Princeton University Press. He is currently Visiting Professor at Villa I Tatti, Florence.