International conference : « The Monumentalization of Water in Antiquity, Islam and Renaissance », Florence (29 septembre-1er octobre 2025) et Grenade (6-8 octobre 2025)
I : September 29-October 1, 2025 Firenze · Accademia delle Arti del Disegno
Monday, September 29
| 14:30 | Cristina Acidini, president of the Accademia delle Arti del Disegno: Benvenuti.
Federica Bergamini, director of Ville e residenze monumentali fiorentine. Il nuovo museo autonomo delle ville medicee di proprietà statale: obiettivi e prospettive. |
| 14:45 | Felix Arnold, architect-archeologist . Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Madrid. Julio Navarro, archeologist. Escuela de Estudios Árabes (CSIC), Granada. Sabine Frommel, art historian. École pratique des hautes études-PSL, Paris.
Introduction – Introducción – Introduzione |
| 15:00 | Emanuela Ferretti, histrorian of architecture. Università degli Studi di Firenze.
“Imminutus crevit” e “Optabilior melior”: La magnificenza dell’acqua nelle opere pubbliche e nei giardini di Cosimo I de’ Medici. |
| 15:45 | Sara Taglialagamba, art historian. Nuova Fondazione Pedretti, Lamporecchio.
Leonardo e la sinestesia dell’acqua: il suono e le emozioni. |
| 16:30 | Teresa Torregrossa, architect, Palermo, Lina Bellanca architect, formerly Soprintendenza Beni Culturali ed Ambientali di Palermo, and Julio Navarro, archeologist . Escuela de Estudios Árabes (CSIC), Granada.
Villa Napoli (Palermo): La continuità di un giardino di delizie e delle sue fonti d’acqua tra X e XVIII secolo. |
| 17:15 | Coffee break |
| 17:45 | Gu Kai, garden historian. Southeast University, Nanjing.
Tentative Discussion of Mountain-in-Water Scene Making in Late-Ming Gardens from ZHANG Dai’s ‘Pavilion of Auspicious Grass Stream’. |
| 18:30 | Nicolas Fiévé, historian of architecture. École française d’Extrême-Orient (EFEO), Paris.
Landscapes of Water and Mountains in a Seigniorial Garden in Edo period Japan. |
Tuesday, September 30
| 09:30 | Visit to the garden of Castello e Petraia, with Claudia Mezzapesa and Paolo Cova. |
| 12:30 | Visit and lunch break at the Medici-villa La Quiete, with Giorgio Galletti. |
| 16:00 | Return to Florence. |
Wednesday, October 1
09:30 Visit to the Medici-parco di Pratolino, with Lorenzo di Bilio.
14:00 Visit to the Medici-villa at Fiesole, with Giorgio Galletti.
16:00 Return to Florence.
II : October 6-8, 2025 Granada · Escuela de Estudios Árabes (CSIC)
Monday, October 6
09:00 Registration.
09:30 Welcome.
ANTIQUITY
| 10:00 | Thomas G. Schattner, classical archeologist. Lisbon.
Orígenes de la monumentalización del agua: de Grecia a Roma. |
| 10:45 | Giorgio Ortolani, architect. Formerly Roma Tre University.
Modellare il mare: le villae maritimae sul litorale laziale. |
| 11:30 | Coffee break |
| 12:00 | Rafael Hidalgo and Juan José Algaba, archeologists. Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Sevilla.
De la villa tiburtina a Villa Adriana. El agua como instrumento de representación y poder. |
| 12:45 | Jesús Acero, archeologist. Universidad de Sevilla.
Fuentes monumentales y ninfeos en las ciudades de Hispania. |
| 13:30 | Arabella Cortese, christian archeologist. University FAU Erlangen.
La monumentalizzazione dell´acqua sacra nel Mediterraneo tardoantico orientale: forme, spazi e messa in scena del sacro. |
| 14:15 | Lunch break |
ISLAM
| 16:00 | Safa Mahmoudian, architect-art historian. Universität Wien.
Water Features in Early Islamic Gardens of Khorasan and Mesopotamia. |
| 16:45 | Attilio Petruccioli, architect. Bibliotheca Orientalis, Foligno.
Monumental waterworks in Indo-Islamic architecture. |
| 17:30 | Felix Arnold, architect- archeologist. Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Madrid.
Agua en la almunia de al-Rummaniya (Córdoba), s. X, y los orígenes de la monumentalización del agua en Persia. |
| 18:15 | Coffee break |
| 18:45 | José Miguel Puerta, arabist – art historian. Universidad de Granada.
Fuentes monumentales y festivas en al-Andalus. Literatura y arqueología. |
| 19:30 | Luis García and Antonio Orihuela, architects. Escuela de Estudios Árabes, Granada (CSIC).
Estética y monumentalidad del agua en la Alhambra y la almunia del Generalife. |
| 20:15 | Gonzalo Sánchez, architect.
La fuente de los Leones de la Alhambra y los surtidores zoomórficos en al-Andalus |
Tuesday, October 7
| 09:00 | Pietro Todaro, architect. SIGEA-APS Sicilia-Università degli Studi de Palermo.
L’idraulica del piacere nei parchi arabo-normanni di Palermo.
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| 09:45 | Julio Navarro, Pedro Jiménez, archeologists and Irene Zarco, art historian. Escuela de Estudios Árabes, Granada (CSIC).
Los ninfeos en el Genoardo de Palermo. Siglos X-XII.
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| 10:30 | Concepción Obón and Diego Rivera, botanists. Universidad Miguel Hernández de Elche and Universidad de Murcia.
Las plantas en las arquitecturas del agua en el islam medieval.
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| 11:15 | Coffee break |
| 11:45 | Ildefonso Ramírez and Loreto Parro, archeologists. Grupo 365, Toledo.
El sistema de elevación de agua en la huerta del convento de San Gil (Toledo): un ejemplo de torre-noria de origen medieval.
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RENAISSANCE
| 12:30 | Giorgio Galletti, architect. Florence.
Traces of classical and Islamic hydraulics in the Italian garden of the early Renaissance.
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| 13:15 | Sabine Frommel, art historian. École pratique des hautes études-PSL, Paris, and Bruno Bentz, archeologist. OMAGE.
Lo sviluppo dei giardini terrazzati in Italia e in Francia durante il Rinascimento: la magia dell´acqua. |
| 14:00 | Lunch break |
| 16:00 | Bruce Edelstein, art historian. New York University Florence.
Raccolta e spettacolarizzazione dell’acqua nel Giardino di Boboli |
| 16:45 | Manuel Parada, art historian. Universidad Complutense de Madrid.
Los pabellones ninfeo del Renacimiento y sus precedentes clásicos e islámicos. |
| 17:30 | Fernando Vela, archeologist. Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura Madrid.
Excavación del pabellón de grutas del Reservado Chico de la Casa de Campo de Madrid. |
| 18:15 | Coffee break
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| 18:45 | Carlos Plaza, architect. Universidad de Sevilla.
Agua, arquitectura y herencia andalusí en la Sevilla del Renacimiento: La huerta del Rey o la antigua almunia de la Buhayra. |
CONCLUSIONS
| 19:30 | Ricardo González, archeologist. Universidad de Paris Nanterre.
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| José Tito, landscape designer. Universidad de Granada. |
Wednesday, October 8
| 09:00-11:30 | Visit to the surroundings of the Alhambra: The Generalife meadow, with Luis García and Luca Mattei.
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| 11:45-14:15 | Visit to the watercourses and pools within the Royal City of the Alhambra, with Antonio Orihuela and Ignacio Martín-Lagos.
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| 11:45-14:15 | Visit to the Royal Almunia of the Generalife, with José Tito, Fernando Martínez and Paz Gázquez. |
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