Events

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
Categories: Department Michalsky, Conference, Dep. Michalsky - Historical Spaces
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
Categories: Department Michalsky, Conference, Dep. Michalsky - Middle Ages and Medievalisms
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]

Cult/Space/Presence of Images. A Workshop on the Art and Cultural Historical Impulses of Hans Belting

Conference

Public event without registration
Start: Mar 21, 2024 09:00 AM (Local Time Germany)
End: Mar 22, 2024 06:30 PM
Speaker: Conference
Location: Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, RM 00187 Rome and online (Vimeo)
Categories: Department Michalsky, Conference, Dep. Michalsky - Middle Ages and Medievalisms
Contact: raffaele.rossi@biblhertz.it

The aim of this workshop, a sequel to the one held last year in Brno, is to further illuminate and classify the contribution of Hans Belting (1935–2023) to art history, visual and cultural studies and to reflect on its significance. [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
Categories: Department Michalsky, Conference, Dep. Michalsky - Middle Ages and Medievalisms
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]

Rome 10th Century

Conference

Public event without registration
Start: Jun 6, 2023
End: Jun 10, 2023
Speaker: Conference
Location: Rome, Italy (BHMPI, École française de Rome, Sapienza Università di Roma)
Categories: Department Michalsky, Conference, Dep. Michalsky - Middle Ages and Medievalisms
Contact: rossi@biblhertz.it

The conference aims to draw the attention of the scientific community to the history and history of art in Rome during the 10th century, to fill the many existing historiographical and methodological gaps. [more]

Perceptions of Aging and Old Age: Thresholds and Life-Cycles

Conference

Event open to the public without registration
Start: Mar 28, 2023 09:15 AM (Local Time Germany)
End: Mar 29, 2023 05:30 PM
Speaker: Conference
Location: March 28th: Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rome and online (Vimeo https://vimeo.com/event/2092675) and March 29th: The Norwegian Institute in Rome, Viale Trenta Aprile 33, 00153 Roma (Online via ZOOM)
Categories: Department Michalsky, Conference, Dep. Michalsky - Middle Ages and Medievalisms
Contact: rossi@biblhertz.it

Images of old age and aging determine how we handle demographic change. This conference will explore how the stages of the life cycle have been construed throughout history in order to consciously recognize the stereotypes that emanate from these age categories. [more]

Writing on Tombs. Narratives, Rules, Inscriptions in Medieval and Early Modern Times

Conference

Start: Jun 13, 2022 09:30 AM (Local Time Germany)
End: Jun 14, 2022 06:00 PM
Speaker: Conference
Location: Roma (Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Roma) and Naples (Via Mezzocannone 8, Sala Giovanni Pontano, 80134 Napoli)
Categories: Department Michalsky, Conference, Dep. Michalsky - Middle Ages and Medievalisms
Contact: rossi@biblhertz.it

How were tombs conceived, narrated and represented in writings in medieval and early modern times? What was the contribution of writing in the actions that immediately followed the death? What rules determined the shape and the position of tombs? [more]