Events

Memories of Rome - Drawings as Souvenirs from around 1800

Research Exhibition curated by Johannes Röll
Ninety-seven drawings from the late 18th century were acquired by the Bibliotheca Hertziana over a hundred years ago, most likely as originals by the well-known artist Felice Giani. Most of them are faithful but sketchy copies of drawings by the Slovene Franz Caucig, who lived in Rome from 1780 to 1787. They were probably made for an English Grand Tourist and sold as souvenirs. [more]

Quo vadis Provenance Research? Primary Sources and Archival Collections in Post-Unitarian Italy

Workshop
The Photographic Collection of the Bibliotheca Hertziana in Rome will host the second annual meeting of the Working group Italy of the Arbeitskreis Provenienzforschung e.V. The workshop will focus on primary sources and archival collections in post-unitarian Italy, which serve as a fundamental tool for provenance research. [more]

Faszination Rom. Maarten van Heemskerck zeichnet die Stadt | The Allure of Rome. Maarten van Heemskerck Draws the City

Exhibition
The Kupferstichkabinett Berlin owns two spectacular albums with around 160 drawings by the Dutch artist Maarten van Heemskerck (1498–1574), executed in Rome between 1532 and 1536/37. During these years he wandered through the city, visited collections of antiquities, made pilgrimages to the holy sites, and filled his sketchbook with drawings. [more]

Gernsheim Study Days: Exploring Rome through Drawing in the 16th Century

Gernsheim Study Days
In 1532, the painter Maarten van Heemskerck (1498–1574) set out on a journey from Haarlem to Rome. A collection of 94 sheets with about 160 drawings in the Berlin Kupferstichkabinett provides a visual testimony to his five-year stay – it is one of the most extensive by an artist traveling to Rome in the 16th century. [more]

Presentazione del catalogo della mostra Hilde in Italia. Arte e Vita nelle fotografie di Hilde Lotz-Bauer

Presentazione libro
Il Museo di Roma in Trastevere ospita, mercoledì 14 febbraio alle ore 18.30, la presentazione del catalogo della mostra edito da Gangemi editore e realizzato grazie al sostegno della Bibliotheca Hertziana e del Kunsthistorisches Institut of Florenz.Il volume, curato da Federica Kappler e Corinna Lotz, presenti con gli altri autori Ute Dercks, Alessio De Stefano, Johannes Röll e Regine Schallert, è presentato da Nicoletta Leonardi. Modera la conversazione Tanja Michalsky, Bibliotheca Hertziana. [more]

The Missing Archive: Bauhaus Artists and Designers and the Holocaust

Research Seminar
While Bauhaus after 1933 is remembered as a movement in exile, this works-in-progress talk explores the work of three Bauhäusler who were caught up in the National-Socialists’ carceral system and who, until now, have been lost to art history. [more]

Max Peiffer Watenphul: Photography and the Queer Bauhaus!

Lecture
The photographs of Max Peiffer Watenphul, the Bauhaus’s first known queer member, capture campy portraits of his Bauhaus friends, scenes of queer desire, and cityscapes in Italy, where he first traveled as a Rome Prize recipient and later as an exile. [more]

Nuove fonti documentarie su Ludwig Pollak, un protagonista del mercato internazionale dell'arte nella prima metà del '900

Research Seminar
L’archeologo, connoisseur e mercante d’arte praghese Ludwig Pollak (1868–1943) è stato uno dei principali protagonisti del mercato dell’arte e del collezionismo a Roma tra la fine del XIX secolo e i primi decenni del Novecento. [more]

Generic Pastness. AI Image Synthesis and the Virtualization of the Archive

Research Seminar
AI image synthesis models are turning large collections of historical images into resources for producing new visual content. How does this affect our view of the past, and what does it mean for image archives to become sites of pattern extraction? [more]

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

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. [more]

Transient Photographs: How Time Reshapes the Photographic Archive

Lecture
Since the early 19th century, photography has offered a method to fix the fleeting image. Since then, however, we have become aware of the transient character of all photographic materials. [more]

Gray Zones in Black and White: Bauhaus Photography Under Nazism

Lecture
Most histories of the Bauhaus after 1933 describe it as a movement in exile, but the majority of Bauhäusler remained in Germany. This talk focuses on two of its communist photographers who took very different paths of resistance and participation during the Nazi period. [more]

The Technical Study of Bernini’s Bronzes: Art History, Conservation, Material Science

Workshop
The Technical Study of Bernini’s Bronzes is a collaborative multi-disciplinary project that has begun a comprehensive technical study of all of Bernini’s complete oeuvre in bronze. In the past year, the travelling team has studied bronzes in North American and Australian museums and will continue technical studies in Europe in 2023-2026. [more]
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