Journée d’étude : « The Intelligent Hand, 1500-1800 » (Londres, Courtauld Institute, 8 nov. 2014)

The Intelligent Hand, 1500-1800 (London, 8 Nov 14)
Courtauld Institute of Art, London, November 8, 2014

The Intelligent Hand,1500–1800 Sixth Early Modern Symposium

PROGRAMME

09.30 – 10.00
Registration

10.00 – 10.15
Austeja Mackelaitt and Camilla Pietrabissa (The Courtauld Institute of Art):
Introduction

10.15 – 11.30
SESSION I
Yannis Hadjinicolaou (Freie Universität Berlin / Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin):
Thinking Hand, Painting Process and the Rembrandt Tradition
Carlton Hughes (University of South Carolina-Upstate):
Michelangelo’s Concetto
Anna Sgobbi (Ludwigs-Maximilians-Universität, Munich):
The Self-Portrait of Giovanni Paolo Lomazzo (1538-1592): 
The Gymnosophist Artist and his Way of Painting

11.30 – 12.00
Tea / Coffee Break

12.00 – 13.15
SESSION II
Nicolas Misery 
(Université Lumière Lyon 2 / Laboratoire de Recherche Historique en Rhône Alpes):
Parmigianino’s Prometheus Animating Man (ca. 1526 -1530):
Gesturing the Poetics of Artistic Creation in the Italian Sixteenth Century
Claudia Steinhardt-Hirsch (Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte, Munich):
The Speaking Hand: The Act of Drawing in Early Modern Italy
Tamar Mayer (University of Chicago):
Drawing Hands: Trace, Pressure and Reversal in Jacques-Louis David’s 
Preparatory Practices

13.15 – 14.00
Lunch (not provided, except for speakers and chairs)

14.00 – 14.45
Linda Karshan: ‘I am after the most perfect line’. Two workshops with 
the artist at the Prints and Drawings Study Room, The Courtauld 
Institute of Art.

14.45 – 16.00
SESSION III
Temenuzhka Dimova (Université de Strasbourg): 
Comput digitis: the Arithmetic of Fingers in the Seventeenth
- and Eighteenth-Century French Painting
Johanna Scherer (Hochschule für Bildende Künste Braunschweig):
Measuring Hands: Gestures in the Image of the Sixteenth-Century Artist
Jungyoon Yang (Universiteit van Amsterdam):
Trusting Hands: The dextrarum iunctio in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Epithalamia

16.00 – 16.20
Break

16.20 – 17.45
SESSION IV
Catherine Hunt (University of Bristol):
The Vicarious Hand, the Intelligent Glove
Joaneath Spicer (Walters Art Museum, Baltimore):
The Possessive Hand: Gathering Intelligence, 
Experiencing Pleasure in the Renaissance
Nina Samuel (Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung Berlin
/ Image Knowledge Gestaltung.An Interdisciplinary Laboratory Cluster
of Excellence Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin): 
Hand in Hand:Anatomical and Architectural Links to
Reconstructive Hand Surgery in Early Modern Art

17.45 – 19.00
Reception