Call for Papers
Artists and Friendship in Early Modern Europe

We invite proposals for papers to be included in a panel on artists and
friendship at the 2015 Sixteenth Century Studies Conference (Vancouver,
October 22 – 25, 2015). A number of recent publications have broadened
our understanding of the structure and ideology of friendship in early
modern Europe. This panel seeks to bring this scholarship into dialogue
with art history, and to explore how notions of friendship and amity
impacted the lives of artists or the production of art. Topics might
include: case studies of friendship among artists; the visual
commemoration of friendship in portraits or other genres; marketing and
self-promotion through networks of friends; patrons as friends/friends
as patrons; gift exchange among friends; professional collaboration and
affinity (or lack thereof) among artists; or the impact of classical
formulations of friendship on sixteenth-century art production.

To propose a paper, please send an abstract of no more than 250 words
and a curriculum vitae to: Meryl Bailey (mbaileymills.edu) and
Elizabeth Carroll Consavari (elizabeth.consavarisjsu.edu) by March 1,
2015. We will notify panelists by March 30, 2015. Once submitted, the
panel is subject to review and approval by the Sixteenth Century Studies
Conference organizers.

Organizers: Meryl Bailey (Mills College) and Elizabeth Carroll Consavari
(San Jose State University)


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institutional funding. In order to participate in this conference,
delegates or their sponsoring institution/organization will need to fund
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delegates become members in the SCSC and receive the Sixteenth Century
Journal.