Stone into Stone
Research Seminar
- Public event without registration
- Datum: 22.10.2024
- Uhrzeit: 11:00 - 13:00
- Vortragende: Carolina Mangone
- Ort: Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rome
Purportedly carved by his own hand, Bernini's
travertine rockwork runs against his famed ability to metamorphize marble into
everything it was not. The artistic stakes of emulating travertine in its very
substance will be explored in relation to early modern natural philosophies
about the formation rocks and mountains; imaginaries of the geological origins
for building; temporalities of production; and traditions of unfinishedness in
art. The interpretation of Bernini’s travertine that emerges dissolves the
boundaries of the natural, the sculptural, and the architectural and, in turn,
gives new purchase on the non-finito as a category
of art.
Carolina Mangone is associate professor of early modern art and
architecture in the Department of Art & Archaeology at Princeton
University. She is the author of Bernini’s Michelangelo (Yale,
2020) and is currently writing a study of Michelangelo’s unfinished sculptures,
from their production to their reception, as they inflect and shape an early
modern aesthetics of the imperfect.
Scientific Organization: Ariella Minden