[Carlotta Paltrinieri]

Dear Colleagues, please consider sending an abstract for the panel:\”What’s a Dilettante? Non-Professional Artists and Literati in Early Modernity (1500-1650)\”.

Contributions to this panel will explore the phenomenon of dilettantismo between the 1500s and 1650s and consider some of the following key questions:

Who was the dilettante? How did the dilettante come to be? What were the most suitable disciplines for a dilettante? What cultural and socio-political contexts led to the diffusion of this phenomenon? Who were the main agents of the affirmation of amateurship?

We particularly welcome contributions on geo-political areas that have been less studied, and that will deal with one or more of the following aspects:

• Amateurs & visual arts
• Amateurs & liberal arts
• Amateurs & performing arts
• Amateurs & natural sciences
• Women amateurs
• The curriculum of the amateur
• Literature and treatises on amateurship
• The etymology and philology of the term dilettante/amateur

 

More details here:
https://www.rsa.org/blogpost/1935950/372235/What-s-a-Dilettante-Non-Professional-Artists-and-Literati-in-Early-Modernity-1500-1650

This topic was also posted in: Digital Humanists, Global & Transnational Studies, The Renaissance Society of America, Early Modern Academies of the World.

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