[1] Early Modern Art and Cartography (1400-1600)

How did the production and circulation of maps and cartographic texts in
the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries affect the visual arts, especially
pictorial works (painted, printed, or woven)? These centuries saw the
circulation of multiple mapping systems and cartographic texts in new
and traditional formats through the printing trade as well as court and
other elite patronage. European voyages generated new geographies
(physical, cultural, economic, etc.) that were integrated into maps and
works of visual art. How did cartographic culture and the visual arts
overlap and inform each other?

Papers might address one or more of the following topics:
- Collecting practices or interior decoration that integrates visual
arts and maps
- Trade networks for books and other cultural products that entangle
artists and cartographers
- Visual artists (for example, pictorial engravers) who also produce
maps
- Books that integrate pictorial illustrations and maps with text
- Pictorial cycles that include maps
- Maps whose political, social, or cultural construction complements
pictorial works of art
- The influence of mapping systems on pictorial representation and vice
versa

Please send a 150-word abstract of your paper; a brief CV (300 words
maximum with degrees awarded; institutional affiliation, and major
publications); keywords; and full contact information to Elizabeth Ross,
elizrossufl.edu by June 2. The organizer is working with Erika Gaffney
at Ashgate in anticipation of publishing a volume of essays on this
topic.

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[2] Raphael's Stanze under Leo X

Proposals are invited for papers that consider the paintings produced by
Raphael and others in the Stanza di Eliodoro (1511-1514), Stanza
dell'Incendio (1514-1517), and Sala di Costantino (1517-1524).

Please email a 150 word abstract, keywords and CV to Patricia Reilly
(preilly1swarthmore.edu) by Friday, May 30, using the subject heading
"RSA Stanze."