Knowledge Commons | Italian Art Society | Activity https://hcommons.org/groups/italian-art-society/ Activity feed for the group, Italian Art Society. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 01:13:10 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 576231061d03abe4bbcae2c534392fd7 Antje Gamble started the topic CFP 15th Annual IAS/Kress Lecture Bologna 2026 in the forum Italian Art Society https://hcommons.org/groups/italian-art-society/forum/topic/cfp-15th-annual-ias-kress-lecture-bologna-2026/ Thu, 26 Feb 2026 23:48:51 -0500 We invite you to apply to be our 15th Annual IAS/Kress speaker. This year’s IAS/Kress lecture will take place on Tuesday 26 May 2026 at the University of Bologna.

Since 2010, the Italian Art Society has worked with the Samuel H. Kress Foundation on a lecture series to promote intellectual exchanges among art historians of North America and the i…[Read more]

]]> 269d31c0423129f5b4d18f1eceda414c Antje Gamble posted an update in the group Italian Art Society: We invite you to apply to be our 15th Annual IAS/Kress […] https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1944914/ Thu, 26 Feb 2026 23:44:02 -0500 We invite you to apply to be our 15th Annual IAS/Kress speaker. This year’s IAS/Kress lecture will take place on Tuesday 26 May 2026 at the University of Bologna.
Since 2010, the Italian Art Society has worked with the Samuel H. Kress Foundation on a lecture series to promote intellectual exchanges among art historians of North America and the i…[Read more]

]]> 0 ddf15c128e2664d05103a88a70c9ed56 Antje Gamble started the topic CFP for the IAS Panel at AAH 2026: Eighteenth-Century Italian Art and Artists in in the forum Italian Art Society https://hcommons.org/groups/italian-art-society/forum/topic/cfp-for-the-ias-panel-at-aah-2026-eighteenth-century-italian-art-and-artists-in/ Mon, 06 Oct 2025 17:59:08 -0400 Eighteenth-Century Italian Art and Artists in Global Contexts

Arlene Leis, Independent Scholar, aleis914@gmail.com

Miriam Al Jamil, Independent Scholar, mauvemiriam@gmail.com

Sponsored by the Italian Art Society

This session invites papers that consider the work of eighteenth-century Italian artists and artists living in Italy, in the context…[Read more]

]]> 0efc02679891cf2d661059b12784f5c3 Antje Gamble posted an update in the group Italian Art Society: Lecture Invitation: 14th Annual IAS/Kress Lecture in Naples, […] https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1918591/ Tue, 20 May 2025 18:22:28 -0400 Lecture Invitation:
14th Annual IAS/Kress Lecture in Naples, Italy in Collaboration with the Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte in partnership with the Centro per la Storia dell’Arte e dell’Architettura delle Città Portuali “La Capraia"

Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte

Via Miano 2, Naples, Italy

Friday 30 May 2025
h. 16.30 (CEST, local time)…[Read more]

]]> 0 ce6f63508feebd453e586937c2eed3f7 Antje Gamble posted an update in the group Italian Art Society: CALL FOR PAPERS 14 th Annual Italian Art Society […] https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1910788/ Thu, 06 Feb 2025 17:38:52 -0500 CALL FOR PAPERS
14 th Annual Italian Art Society Lecture
Naples, 30 May 2025
Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte, in partnership with
Centro per la Storia dell’Arte e dell’Architettura delle Città Portuali “La Capraia”
Deadline: Feb. 28, 2025
For its annual lecture series in Italy, the Italian Art Society invites a distinguished scholar
to give a p…[Read more]

]]> 0 540a36cdaec4c3c40b7b96b58293a9fd Antje Gamble posted an update in the group Italian Art Society: This Friday, join us for the 2024 IAS/Kress Lecture in […] https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1890258/ Wed, 26 Jun 2024 17:37:14 -0400 This Friday, join us for the 2024 IAS/Kress Lecture in Torino!

The 13th IAS/Kress Lecture will be held on 28 June 2024 in Torino, Italy at the Musei Reali di Torino. This year, we are excited to welcome Dr Luis Javier Cuesta Hernández. Dr. Cuesta Hernández is the Dean of Humanities and Communication at the Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico C…[Read more]

]]> 0 054dd006689a3511233683cb448142b4 Antje Gamble posted an update in the group Italian Art Society: This month join us for the 2024 IAS/Kress Lecture in […] https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1888324/ Tue, 04 Jun 2024 20:09:33 -0400 This month join us for the 2024 IAS/Kress Lecture in Torino!

The 13th IAS/Kress Lecture will be held on 28 June 2024 in Torino, Italy at the Musei Reali di Torino. This year, we are excited to welcome Dr Luis Javier Cuesta Hernández. Dr. Cuesta Hernández is the Dean of Humanities and Communication at the Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico C…[Read more]

]]> 0 7d73b8eba06ce473fa31b7cb38685b42 Lloyd Graham deposited Eyes wide open: A recurring ocular motif in and beyond Syracuse, Sicily in the group Italian Art Society https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1868209/ Sat, 16 Dec 2023 03:00:10 -0500 Sicily – and especially Syracuse – seems to have had an ongoing preoccupation with paired eyes as an apotropaic or magico-religious symbol. This brief paper explores some signature pieces and speculates that the excised eyes of Santa Lucia, patron saint of Syracuse, may be but a recent embodiment of a propensity that dates back to the Neolithic era.

]]> 0 9daf0c4e7c9ae1b71ad299f370cebcdb Marianna Charitonidou deposited Le voyage en Grèce des pensionnaires de la Villa Médicis au xixe siècle : la perception des monuments antiques entre architecture et archéologie in the group Italian Art Society https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1864057/ Fri, 10 Nov 2023 03:01:39 -0500 The article analyses the collaborations between the residents of Villa Medici in Rome and the members of the French School of Athens. Its aim is to render explicit how the revelations of archaeology, actively disseminated by members of the French School of Athens, the “Athéniens”, had an important impact on the approach of certain pens…[Read more]

]]> 0 393f4be8831861ed8a24e2bdfeebd644 Katrina Grant deposited Planting ‘Italian Gusto’ in ‘a Gothick country’: The influence of Filippo Juvarra on William Kent in the group Italian Art Society https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1851614/ Thu, 13 Jul 2023 02:23:43 -0400 After a lacklustre attempt to become a painter,William Kent (1685–1748) developed a career as a garden designer, working mainly for Lord Burlington and other patrons in his circle. His gardens represent some of the earliest gardens of a style that became known as the ‘English Landscape Garden’, exemplified by Stourhead in Wiltshire, Rousham in Ox…[Read more]

]]> 0 0df617de6081d2aecdd57534f3f888e9 Caroline Paganussi deposited ‘A woman of supreme goodness, and a singular talent’: Anna Morandi Manzolini, Artist and Anatomist of Enlightenment Bologna in the group Italian Art Society https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1849983/ Thu, 22 Jun 2023 02:23:49 -0400 Anna Morandi Manzolini (1714–1774), a Bolognese wax sculptor, overcame humble origins to become one of the most important anatomical artists of the eighteenth century. Working with her husband Giovanni Manzolini (c. 1700–1755), and continuing alone after his death, Morandi created remarkably lifelike and anatomically accurate wax models of the sen…[Read more]

]]> 0 be02890636d77b625965de55b035b397 Antje Gamble posted an update in the group Italian Art Society: Please join us in Venice (or online) for the upcoming […] https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1849161/ Tue, 13 Jun 2023 15:52:10 -0400 Please join us in Venice (or online) for the upcoming Twelfth Annual IAS/Lecture, which will be held on Friday, June 30, at the Fondazione Cini in Venice.
We are looking forward to the lecture by this year’s speaker, Jodi Cranston, Professor in the Department of History of Art and Architecture at Boston University and author of Green Worlds of R…[Read more]

]]> 0 693451693d7a0ec14746b929393f6180 Stefano Verri deposited Il punto e la virgola del poeta dei segni in the group Italian Art Society https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1789927/ Wed, 10 Aug 2022 02:25:22 -0400 Catalogo realizzato in occasione della serie di mostre dedicate, tra il 2021 e il 2022, dalla Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Jesi, dal Museo d'Arte Moderna e della Mail Art di Montecarotto (AN) e dal Museo Nori De' Nobili di Trecastelli (AN), all'opera di Magdalo Mussio. Il testo prende in esame, in particolare, l'opera grafico-pittorica, oltre…[Read more]

]]> 0 1a370ff37b8905165d62b6261ff7290d Adelina Modesti deposited CFP- AIWAC 2022 Women’s Legacies in Nature Studies, Health and Liberal Arts in the group Italian Art Society https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1783149/ Fri, 03 Jun 2022 02:23:49 -0400 CFP - AIWAC 2nd edition Rome 2022

]]> 0 25a05a2233437dd0caba63a27a8dfa04 Flavia De Nicola deposited Nuove acquisizioni sulla prima attività romana di Michelangelo Buonarroti connessa con l’Umanesimo dei Pomponiani in the group Italian Art Society https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1717163/ Wed, 18 Nov 2020 02:24:13 -0500 Young Michelangelo Buonarroti’s experience was deeply marked by his cult of Antiquity, reverberated in the creation of artworks such as the Sleeping Cupid and the Bacchus and shared with Raffaele Riario and Jacopo Galli, his patrons during his first stay in Rome (1496-1501).
The cardinal-camerlengo Raffaele Riario was an important promoter of t…[Read more]

]]> 0 b47e4cede8e25e8337dfb81f44394e3c Flavia De Nicola deposited Equus infoelicitatis: analisi iconografica di una xilografia dell' Hypnerotomachia Poliphili fra testo e immagine, xilografia n. 6 in the group Italian Art Society https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1717159/ Wed, 18 Nov 2020 02:23:47 -0500 The peculiar iconography of the winged horse surmounted by several puttos, as appears in the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili sixth woodcut, turns out to be unprecedented and enigmatic at a glance and it’s the result of the depth and complexity of the author’s concepts.
Considering the iconographic details of the sculptural group as well as the text sca…[Read more]

]]> 0 b7e9992ec6e8438224f695714d49f217 Anne Leader deposited Architectural Collaboration in the Early Renaissance: Reforming the Florentine Badia in the group Italian Art Society https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1696197/ Thu, 09 Jul 2020 16:28:29 -0400 In the late 1420s, Abbot Gomezio di Giovanni initiated a major building campaign to reform the Benedictine monastery of the Florentine Badia. Designed to provide its community with an orderly space in which to pursue the Benedictine Observance, the compound rises around the so-called Orange Cloister, long considered to be an early work of Bernardo…[Read more]

]]> 0 070b3dee8d649fe9cc028f9e3d545c8c Cristelle Baskins started the topic CFP -- IAS sponsored session at RSA Dublin 2021 in the discussion Italian Art Society https://hcommons.org/groups/italian-art-society/forum/topic/cfp-ias-sponsored-session-at-rsa-dublin-2021/ Tue, 30 Jun 2020 02:40:23 -0400 Painted Faces: Documenting the Tradition and Reach of the Renaissance Frescoed Façade in Rome and Beyond In early sixteenth-century Rome, as the architectural language of grand domestic spaces was being further refined, elaborate façade fresco decorations came into incredible popularity. These cycles, some of which were designed to root the st…[Read more]

]]> 9b54578f09e54e99b6882d33bbdce9d7 Elizabeth Ranieri created the group Italian Art Society https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1693909/ Mon, 29 Jun 2020 16:16:52 -0400 0