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CALL FOR PAPERS: Organizing the World Beyond Europe in the Early Modern Print, RSA, San Diego, 4-6 April 2013.

This session seeks to expand on recent scholarly inquiries into the role of prints in both mediating and organizing knowledge in the early modern period. Current interdisciplinary interventions among art historians and historians of science, such as the Fogg Museum’s 2011 exhibition Prints and the Pursuit of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe, have secured the place of print in the formalization of new disciplines and technologies.

Many printed genres of the early modern period asserted their informational properties and presented their contents as data; this panel will inspect the organization of that data into visual formats. Prints produced by artists in the age of expansion embraced, craftily adjusted, or outright rejected an engagement with naturalism to suit the demands of conveying unfamiliar material.

The frameworks of visualization that accommodated extra-European material often tread a tightrope between descriptive and normative ends, frequently producing hybrids to ratify claims of empirical experience. Here we will examine how information was recorded and formalized in the methods that early modern artists used to filter, organize, and familiarize strange new material with which they came into contact.

We invite papers that consider this phenomenon in cosmographies, natural histories, travel compendia, botanicals, costume books, physiognomies and other genres that explore things of the world in relation to the lay of the land.

Please send a 150-word abstract and an abbreviated c.v. to both Stephanie Leitch and Ashley West using the subject heading “RSA 2013″.

Deadline: 25 May 2012.

Source: H-ArtHist

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CONFERENCE: Visual Interests: The Intellectual Legacy of Michael Baxandall, London, The Warburg Institute, University of London, School of Advanced Study (Woburn Square, London WC1H 0AB), 24-25 May 2012. A conference organised by Peter Mack and Robert Williams.

The work of Michael Baxandall (1933-2008) was of profound importance to the study of the visual arts: its impact extended to all branches of the humanities as well as to the social sciences. To commemorate his achievement, the Warburg Institute will host a two-day conference. Invited speakers include Elizabeth Cook (London), Paul Hills (Courtauld Institute), Jan Koenderink (Utrecht), Allan Langdale (University of California at Santa Cruz), Evelyn Lincoln (Brown), Stephen Melville (Ohio State) and Robert Williams (University of California at Santa Barbara).

Programme

Thursday 24 May
10.30: Registration and Coffee
* Peter Mack and Robert Williams, Welcome and Introduction
* Jan Koenderink, Visual Awareness and Artistic Expression
* Alex Potts, Painterly Envisaging and the Subject of Picturing
* Paul Hills, The Presence of Light
* Daniel Andersson, Shades of Intention: Baxandall and the Problem of Shadows
* Robert Williams, Baxandall and Gombrich
* Stephen Melville, On Being Struck by Some of Baxandall’s Sentences

Friday 25 May
10.00: Coffee
* Evelyn Lincoln, Printing and Experience in Eighteenth-Century Italy
* Kimberly Skelton, The Synecdochic Period Eye
* Thomas Willette, Talking about Pictures: Training the Eye
* Alberto Frigo, Baxandall and Gramsci: Pictorial Intelligence and Organic Intellectuals
* Herman Roodenburg, The Visceral Pleasure of Looking: On Baxandall, Langdale and Bourdieu
* Elizabeth Cook, Michael Baxandall’s Stationing
- Closing Discussion.

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CONFERENCE: Arte di Corte in Italia del Nord. Programmi, modelli, artisti (1330-1402 ca.), Lausanne, Université de Lausanne (Amphipôle salle 321 et 315), 24-26 May 2012. Sinergia FNS Project Constructing Identity: Visual, Spatial, and Literary Cultures in Lombardy (XIVth-XVIth century). Contact: Denise Zaru.

Programme

Jeudi 24 mai, 14.00
- Accueil et introduction
* Stefano L’Occaso (Soprintendenza di Mantova), Pittura a Mantova tra Bonacolsi e Gonzaga
* Cristina Guarnieri (Università di Padova), I Gonzaga e la decorazione della cappella gentilizia in Palazzo Ducale
* Ettore Napione (Verona, Museo di Castelvecchio), Tornare a Julius von Schlosser: i palazzi scaligeri e il preumanesimo
* Tiziana Franco e Fausta Piccoli (Università degli Studi di Verona), Dentro e fuori la corte: note sulla pittura a Padova e a Verona nel Trecento
* Andrea De Marchi (Università degli Studi di Firenze), La percezione panottica delle « camerae pictae » profane di età gotica in Italia superiore
- Discussion

Vendredi 25 mai, 9.30
* Zuleika Murat (Università di Padova), L’arte al servizio della corte: propaganda politica e magnificenza dinastica nella decorazione pittorica delle arche Carraresi
* Laura Cavazzini (Università di Messina), Una sortita di Bonino da Campione alla Corte dei Carraresi
* Laura Alidori Battaglia (University of California at Santa Cruz), La miniatura lombarda del Trecento, novità e riletture
* Santina Novelli (Université de Lausanne), Il Maestro di Montiglio e i toscani d’Avignone
- Discussion

* Serena Romano (Université de Lausanne), Gothic and the Antique. Bernabò and Regina at Pandino Castle
* Pier Nicola Pagliara (Università di Roma Tre/ EPFL), Le residenze fortificate dei Visconti: testimonianze di palazzi urbani scomparsi
* Vinni Lucherini (Università Federico II di Napoli), Riflessioni sulla volontà di creare un’arte di corte “nazionale”: il caso dei re napoletani d’Ungheria nel corso del Trecento
* Klara Benesovska (Institute of Art History, Academy of Sciences, Prague), La Praga di Venceslao IV e la Milano di Giangaleazzo Visconti: somiglianze e differenze
- Discussion

Samedi 26 mai, 9.30
* Mateusz Grzeda (Jagiellonian University, Cracovie), Fantasia. Ritrarre and the Rise of Portraiture in Lombardy c. 1400
* Nathalie Roman (Université de Lausanne), Savoie, France, Milan: les choix artistiques de Blanche de Savoie
* Denise Zaru (Université de Lausanne), Autour des Visconti. Quelques réflexions sur les oratoires lombards
* Anne Dunlop (University of Tulane, New Orleans), Titre à définir
- Discussion.

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CALL FOR PAPERS: Illuminated Manuscripts and Their Users, Durham, Durham University, Wednesday, 6 June 2012 (beginning at 14.00).

The first session will focus on the use of digital resources in manuscript research, with a presentation by Dr Joanna Fronska (The British Library), Behind the scenes process of digitisation, followed by a roundtable discussion of the use and value of online digital resources.

The second session will consist of short panel presentations/discussion on illuminated manuscripts in the Royal collection, addressing one of the following questions:
* How were the illuminated manuscripts in the royal library used and received by their owners?
* What are the characteristics of illustrated manuscripts collected by English monarchs?
* How did monastic manuscripts enter the royal collection, or what was their function within the library?
* How representative is what survives of the royal library, and why is there a relative lack of liturgical or private devotional books in the royal collection?

The content of the presentations will be circulated before the workshop to enable participants to formulate questions/responses in advance.

If you would like to be considered as a presenter, please submit a 500-word essay to Professor Richard Gameson. Deadline: 25 May 2012.

A summary of the discussions will be published on the BL Medieval and Earlier MSS Blog, and papers may be offered to the Electronic British Library Journal for publication.

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