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CALL FOR PAPERS: Seeing and Hearing: Music and the Visual Arts in the Renaissance, Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting (RSA), New York, 27-29 March 2014.

During the 15th and 16th centuries, both music and the visual arts enjoyed a flourishing period of innovation, discovery, diversity, and increased importance in civic ritual, religious ceremony and court culture. However, the relationship between these art forms is often under discussed.

This panel seeks papers that address the intersection of music and the visual arts, focusing on ways in which they inform and reflect one another. The panel will focus on images that appear in conjunction with music or in a musical context which are not necessarily images of musicians or performances.

Suggested topics include illustrated music manuscripts (ie laudario, choirbooks); personifications of music; visual descriptions of the role of music in civic or religious ceremonial; aspects of performance (ie religious or secular theatre, processions, etc); allegory;  interpretation of music and its meaning in contemporary society; the perception of music/musicians; decorated instruments; choirstalls; organ panels; carved or painted instruments; scholarly/religious debate about the role of music in church/society; venues for such representations, etc.

Papers from all disciplines will be considered.

Please submit 200 word proposals to Sarah Schell,  including a brief CV with name, email address, institutional affiliation, and title of paper.

 Deadline: 31 May 2013.

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CALL FOR PAPERS: Reconsidering the Artistic Response to the Black Death in Italy, Session at the Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting (RSA), New York, 27-29 March 2014.

In 1951 Millard Meiss published his influential Painting in Florence and Siena after the Black Death. His thesis, that the black death caused a change in iconography and style, and his rather negative assessment of this style, have loomed over all subsequent assessments of the art of the late trecento in Italy. Despite some recent individual scholarly challenges, the impression has remained that this period formed a lull between the rebirth foretold by Giotto and manifested in Masaccio.

This panel is intended as a forum for the re-examination and reassessment of this oft-neglected period. Topics of special interest include the historiography of the post-black death period; papers which expand the geographical range of consideration beyond Tuscany to Northern and Southern Italy; and those analyzing specific late-trecento monuments or artists. Through new investigations we hope to move towards a more nuanced understanding of art after the Black Death.

Please submit a 150-word abstract, along with a list of keywords, and a one-page CV (max. 300 words) to Sarah Wilkins.

Deadline: 25 May 2013.

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CALL FOR PAPERS: Reexamining the Early Modern Ornament Print, Renaissance Society of America (RSA), New York, 27-29 March 2014.

The large and varied corpus of works that fall under the rubric of “ornament prints”, “Ornamentstiche” or “Ornamentale Vorlageblätter” have been variously catalogued and recorded since the early nineteenth century. These important studies give us a general overview of when and where the prints were made, the artists who made them and their probable functions. Many critical questions remain, however, not least the fundamental problem of what constitutes the genre itself. Rudolf Berliner’s notion of the ornament print as a template, for example, has proven to be overly one-dimensional and not representative of historic practice. Is it possible to define or formulate specific parameters for the genre as a whole? This session invites papers that take a wide view on the theme of non-architectural ornament prints from the fifteenth through seventeenth centuries.

Questions and topics to be considered could include:
• what is an ornament print?
• the origins of the genre
• the imagery of ornament prints
• the relationship of ornament prints to the other arts
• the creators of ornament prints, e.g. the goldsmith-printmaker
• the purpose and utility (or lack thereof) of ornament prints
• early collectors of ornament prints
• copying versus ownership of design.

Please submit an abstract (max. 150 words) and a brief CV (max. 300 words) to Femke Speelberg and Madeleine Viljoen .

Deadline: 24 May 2013.

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CALL FOR PAPERS: Seeing the Soul: Representations of the Invisible, Session at the Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting, New York,  27-29 March 2014.

The soul was a matter of importance to people in the 14th-16th centuries. There were questions about the nature of this illusive being, and, of course, the perennial concern over its ultimate fate. Images of the soul appeared in frescoes, manuscripts and paintings, but the soul is incorporeal and in some fundamental way, unknowable. It simultaneously IS us, and distinct from us.

This panel seeks papers that address the problem of picturing that which is always out of sight and yet present, and investigate the methods used by artists and writers in the 14th-16th centuries to visualize the invisible.

Papers may address questions such as how the soul was represented in a specific time/place; the influence of antique models; how literary descriptions of the soul translated into image; the religious/scholarly discourse on the nature of the soul; the appropriateness of images of the soul; common visual and literary tropes that develop; the ‘life’ or journey of the soul (Dante, pilgrimage/visionary narratives and allegories); and venues for such representations.

Papers from all disciplines will be considered.

Please submit 200 word proposals to Sarah Schell. Please include a brief CV with name, email address, institutional affiliation, and title of paper. Feel free to email with any questions.

Deadline: 31 May 2013.

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CALL FOR PAPER: Confraternities and the Spaces of the Renaissance City, Session at the Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting, New York, 27 – 29 March 2014.

From running hospitals to ransoming captives, from dowering poor girls to staging penitential processions, confraternities and their myriad activities were everywhere in the cities of the Late Medieval and Early Modern World. With the interpenetration of confraternal life and urban spaces in mind, the Society for Confraternity Studies solicits submissions for a series of panels for the RSA 2014 Annual Meeting in New York.

Possible topics include, but are not limited to, confraternity-run hospitals, charitable performances, oratory decorations, artistic commissions, sacre rappresentazioni, urban processions, execution rites, relic translations, funeral ceremonies, and devotional practices. Submissions are especially welcome from scholars using innovative methodologies to frame and characterize the relationship between confraternal devotion and the urban environment.

Submissions from all geographical areas and through the time period of 1350-1700 are welcome. Please email a brief abstract (maximum 150 words), keywords, and a 300-word CV to Diana Presciutti.

Deadline: 20 May 2013.

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CALL FOR PAPERS: Cartography, Networking at the Arts in Fifteenth Century Florence, Session at the Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting, New York, 27-29 March 2014.

This session will focus on the production and circulation of maps in fifteenth-century Florence. While recognising the importance of maps as tools of knowledge, the intention is to challenge academic boundaries in the study of cartography by exploring the links between map making and artistic practices such as painting, printmaking and drawing.

While investigating the identity of map makers (artists or scientists?) and their provenance (Florence, Italy or Europe?) the panels aims at evaluating how the exchange of maps and the travel of map makers fostered communication, friendships and networking between Florence, the Italian peninsula, and other European countries.

Topics might include, but are not limited to:
- the map maker identikit
- map making as an artistic practice
- relationship between maps, prints, drawings, and manuscripts
- circulation of maps between Florence, Venice and other Italian centers
- maps as tools to foster communication between Florence and Europe
- patron-client structure: commissioning and paying for maps.
- the role of maps in Florence’s intellectual circles and religious groups.

Paper title, a 150-word abstract, keywords, and a 300-word CV should be
send to Irene Mariani or Natalie Lussey, The University of Edinburg.

Deadline: 20 May 2013.

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