Gernsheim Study Days: Accident or Strategy. The Collecting of Drawings in 16th and 17th Century Italy

Gernsheim Study Days: Accident or Strategy. The Collecting of Drawings in 16th and 17th Century Italy

Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max-Planck-Institut für Kunstgeschichte Rom

Location: Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Roma and online

Concept and scientific organization: Tatjana Bartsch, Johannes Röll, Claire Van Cleave

Contact: fototeca@biblhertz.it

Public event without registration

With the overriding question of whether collectors purchased strategically or amassed drawings by accident, the Gernsheim Study Days at the Bibliotheca Hertziana in May 2023 will examine the full breadth of this early moment in the history of collecting works on paper.

Program

Wednesday, 10 May 2023 (https://vimeo.com/event/3198284)

14:30 WELCOME AND INTRODUCTION

Welcome: Tristan Weddigen, Director of the Bibliotheca Hertziana

Introduction: Claire Van Cleave, Independent Scholar

15:00 KEYNOTE LECTURE I

David Ekserdjian, University of Leicester
The Baiardo Inventory

16:00 PAUSE

16:20 SECTION 1

Chair: Lothar Sickel, Bibliotheca Hertziana

INTERVENTIONS

Peter Windows, Birmingham City University
The holograph Inventories of Marino Grimani (c. 1488–1546): Early Insights into the Collecting of Drawings

Marcella Marongiu, Fondazione Casa Buonarroti, Florence
Tommaso de’ Cavalieri e la sua collezione di disegni

Andrea Gianluca Donati, University of Barcelona
Marcello Venusti e Michelangelo: disegni originali e copie nel collezionismo romano da Tommaso de’ Cavalieri a Fulvio Orsini, dagli Aldobrandini ai Borghese

18:20 PAUSE

18:45 KEYNOTE LECTURE II

Carel van Tuyll van Serooskerken, Former Director of the Département des Art Graphiques, Musée du Louvre, Paris
Opportunities and Choices: the Drawings Collection of Don Livio Odescalchi (1658–1713)

Thursday, 11 May 2023 (https://vimeo.com/event/3198284)

9:10 SECTION 2

Chair: Matteo Lafranconi, Director of the Scuderie del Quirinale, Rome

INTERVENTIONS

Andrea Polati, Lonigo
Raccolta o collezione? Riflessioni e qualche ipotesi sui libri di disegni di Carlo Ridolfi

Marco Simone Bolzoni, Debra and Leon Black collection, New York
Artists Collecting Drawings in late Sixteenth-century Rome: from Federico Zuccari to Cavalier d’Arpino

Mary Vaccaro, University of Texas at Arlington
Annibale Carracci in Rome, Drawing as a Strategy for Collecting

11:15 PAUSE

11:30 SECTION 3

Chair: Tatjana Bartsch, Bibliotheca Hertziana

INTERVENTIONS

Lorenza Melli, Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut
Sulle tracce della collezione Gaddi agli Uffizi

Flavia Barbarini, Temple University, Philadelphia
Searching for Drawings Beyond the Alps: Niccolò Gaddi and Joris Hoefnagel

Dirk Jacob Jansen, Forschungszentrum Gotha, University of Erfurt
“Meine liebste und schönste Contrafectur von Händen gerissen”: Functions of Jacopo Strada’s Paper Museum

13:30 LUNCH

14:15 SECTION 4

Chair: Claire Van Cleave, Independent Scholar

INTERVENTIONS

Claudia La Malfa, American University of Rome
Sulla provenienza e uso di un’antica collezione di disegni di Raffaello

Francesca Mattei, Università degli Studi Roma Tre
I disegni di Giulio Romano. Storia, archeologia, destino

15:35 PAUSE

15:55 SECTION 5

Chair: Simonetta Prosperi Valenti Rodinò, Università degli Studi di Roma “Tor Vergata”

INTERVENTIONS

Maria Elena DeLuca, Gabinetto dei Disegni e delle Stampe – Gallerie degli Uffizi, Florence
Filippo Baldinucci e il suo albero della memoria: l’ordinamento dei libri universali nella raccolta medicea del Gabinetto Disegni e Stampe degli Uffizi

Annkatrin Kaul-Trivolis, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
Imagining History. Padre Sebastiano Resta’s Collection of Drawings and the Visualisation of the History of Art(ists) in his Albums

Francesco Grisolia, Università degli Studi di Roma “Tor Vergata”
Strategie del collezionismo e regie del Disegno: padre Resta tra Classicismo e Maniera

Friday, 12 May 2023

09:30 – c. 13:00 ROUND TABLE

Chair: Johannes Röll, Bibliotheca Hertziana

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Contact: fototeca@biblhertz.it