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Reliquie murate – allestimenti, segni e memoria / Immured Relics – Display, Signs and Memory

Conference

Public event without registration
Start: Nov 27, 2024
End: Nov 29, 2024
Speaker: Conference
Location: Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rome
Contact: rossi@biblhertz.it

This workshop is to explore the relation between relics and architecture. First and foremost, cases of relics physically built into the architectural fabric of churches and chapels will be addressed, such as columns whose capitals have been equipped with relics, triumphal arches or the apse’s semi-dome with relic depositories, “secret chambers” or even foundations and walls fortified by holy material. [more]

After the Middle Ages (Reception, Remnants, Revival): Architecture and Medievalism

Conference

Public event without registration
Start: Nov 18, 2024
End: Nov 19, 2024
Speaker: Conference
Location: Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rome
Contact: raffaele.rossi@biblhertz.it

“After the Middle Ages” implies both a temporal horizon, extending from the early modern period to the present day and beyond, and responses to the Middle Ages (medievalism). The conference aims to navigate the historical interactions between these responses and architecture, fostering critical discussions surrounding an “architectural history of medievalism”. [more]

New Perspectives on Mersenne in the History of Knowledge, Music, and Religion

Public event without registration
Start: Jun 6, 2024 09:30 AM (Local Time Germany)
End: Jun 7, 2024 03:30 PM
Speaker: Conference
Location: Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rome
Contact: katja.hackstein@biblhertz.it

In the historiography of the philosopher, mathematician, and Minim theologian Marin Mersenne (1588–1648), 2024 marks 91 years since the publication of the first volume of his Correspondance, 81 years since Robert Lenoble’s trailblazing biography, and 36 years since Peter Dear’s revisionist study of Mersenne and the Jesuit milieu that produced his “deliberately unrevolutionary” scholarship in a rather revolutionary period. [more]

Art in Times of War and Peace: Legacies of Early Modern Loot and Repair

Conference

Event open to the public without registration
Start: May 8, 2024 09:00 AM (Local Time Germany)
End: May 10, 2024 06:00 PM
Speaker: Conference
Location: Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rome
Contact: Editorial-LMG@biblhertz.it

Art in Times of War and Peace is an international, interdisciplinary conference that addresses the ways in which conflict and its resolution have historically moved, modified, and reclassified art objects in the long early modern period. [more]

A Day in Honour of Ursula Nilgen – and her Foundation for Italian Medieval Studies at the Bibliotheca Hertziana

Public event without registration
Date: Nov 6, 2023
Time: 09:45 AM - 05:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Conference
Location: Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rome
Contact: rossi@biblhertz.it

This study day honors the memory of art historian Ursula Nilgen with presentations from international scholars that have taken up her research proposals. In this context we will present the Foundation established in her name at the Bibliotheca Hertziana. [more]