An international group of Research Master and PhD students will examine the concept of ‘self-presentation’. The symposium is intended to provide a platform for young researchers to examine, discus and criticize the relevance of this topic within the current art historical field.
Friday February 8th.
Location : Oude boteringestraat 34, Groningen
10.00 Incoming
10.30 Welcome
11.00 The creation of the last Renaissance pope : Julius III and his Villa Giulia in sixteenth century Rome
Julia Dijkstra (University of Groningen)
11.30 Antonius Triest, 17th century Flemish bishop and maecenas. A case of deliberate self-presentation?
Jacolien Wubs (University of Groningen)
12.00 Nicolaas Beaujon (1718 – 1786): banker, patron, collector.
Noortje Knol (University of Groningen)
12.30 Lunch (not included)
13.30 “Non è questo un semplice ritratto”:* the visual (self-) presentation of a musician in seventeenth-century Rome.
Daniella Berman (New York University/USA)
14.00 The Boschian Bruegel: Stylistic Transformations of Pieter Bruegel the Elder as it Relates to Self-fashioning and Market
Forces in Sixteenth- century Antwerp.
Miranda K. Metcalf (University of Arizona/USA)
15.30 Alessandro Vittoria – artistic autopoiesis in Cinquecento Venice
Theda Jürjens (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich/Germany)
16.00 Pause
16.15 Keynote Lecture : Jeroen Stumpel (University of Utrecht, The Netherlands)
17.15 Drinks
Saturday February 9th.
Location: Wijnbergzaal Universiteitsmuseum, Oude Kijk in ‘t Jatstraat 7a, Groningen
13.00 Incoming
13.15 Fashioning a Patriot King: How Frederick, Prince of Wales Rebranded the Hanoverians.
Oliver James Westerby Cox (University College Oxford/UK)
13.45 Material identities in Early Modern Florence. The portraits in the Cappella Tornabuoni.
Maria Y. Merseburger (Humboldt University Berlin/Germany)
14.15 Art vs. Ignorance – Confidence, Knowledge and the Self-Representation of Painter and Patron in Seventeenth-Century
Italy.
Ulrike Müller (University of Utrecht/ The Netherlands)
14.45 Pause
15.00 Fashioning the image of the professional writer : Ellis Cornelia Knight and the strategies
of self-representation in amateur drawings.
Antoniettachiara Russo (University of Pisa/Italy)
15.30 Reloading clerical semiotics – Ecclesiastical self-fashioning in Borromean Milan 1580 – 1600.
Milan Wehnert (Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen/Germany)
16.00 Round Table
16.30 Closing
More information can be found on: www.rug.nl/let/graduate-symposium. Attendance is free. Conference registration is required (before the 4th of February) at : arthistorygroningen@gmail.com.
This symposium is an initiative by art history students in the Research Master Art History & Archaeology at the University of Groningen (The Netherlands), in cooperation with the Dutch Postgraduate School for Art History (www.onderzoekschoolkunstgeschiedenis.nl), the Groningen Research Institute for the Study of Culture (ICOG), the Huizinga Institute (Research Institute and Graduate School for Cultural History) and the Groningen University Fund.
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