[1]
Von: Adrian Bremenkamp ¹
Gesendet: Mittwoch, 13. Mai 2015 17:32
Betreff: CFP Sektion RSA 2016

Art and Experience in 15th Century Naples: Defining an Artistic Center

This panel investigates critical questions surrounding the study of
fifteenth-century Neapolitan art.

We invite papers that explore questions as fundamental as:

• What is Neapolitan art?
• Who were the predominant artists and patrons of the period?
• What were the social and political functions of art in
Quattrocento Naples and in what respect did they differ from those of other
centers?
• What was the relationship between court and city in the
Aragonese period and what relevance did it have for the production of art?
• Was there a conception of "napolitanità" in the fifteenth
century, and if so, can it be linked to distinctive artistic styles, forms
and types?

More specifically:

• How did artists working in Naples handle the importation of
foreign models, and which visual elements were adapted, translated, or
dismissed during this process?
• In what ways did Neapolitan art and artists participate in
global networks of artistic exchange, and how did these trans-regional
interactions impact material culture at home and abroad?
• In what way does Naples challenge traditional art historical
concepts and narratives such as "school" or "Renaissance"?

By May 31st please submit a paper title, 150-word abstract (preferably
including an image), keywords, and a 300-word curriculum vitae to both
organizers, Nicole Riesenberger (nriesenbumd.edu) and Adrian Bremenkamp
(adrian19zedat.fu-berlin.de).

[2]
From: Nicholas Herman <nicholas.hermanumontreal.ca>
Date: May 23, 2015
Subject: CFP: CFP RSA Boston 2016: Beyond the Wanderjahr: Microhistories of
artistic travel in Renaissance Europe

RSA Boston, March 31 - April 2, 2016
Deadline: Jun 6, 2015

Beyond the Wanderjahr: Microhistories of artistic travel in Renaissance
Europe

Recent scholarship has emphasized the extent to which works of art
circulated in fifteenth- and early-sixteenth-century Europe, but the
movements of individual artists, less tangible and less easily categorized
as an aggregate whole, bear witness to exchange and dialogue at a more
localized level. Beyond the famous examples of individual travelers
crossing the Alps (Fouquet, Dürer, Gossaert, Van Heemskerck), many
lesser-known cases of peripatetic displacement occurred, motivated by a
variety of concerns beyond the nebulous desire to explore new areas for
proto-touristic or proto-art-historical reasons. The diplomatic excursions
of Jan van Eyck to Portugal and Gentile Bellini to Istanbul are well-known,
but how do the seemingly erratic circulations of Michel Sittow (from
Tallinn to Flanders to Denmark to Toledo), Aristotile Fioravanti (from
Bologna to Moscow) or Nicolò Brancaleon (from Venice to Ethiopia) confirm
or challenge received notions of center versus periphery, heartland versus
hinterland? Furthermore, how can physical evidence of artistic travel by
anonymous craftsmen (masons, sculptors, weavers, armorers) be addressed by
a discipline still deeply inflected by its commitment to Grand Tour
geopolitics and the North/South divide? How did artists themselves perceive
geographical and political boundaries, and how can lesser-known instances
of individual travel across broader geographic distances be appreciated
both as unique events and as indices of wider concerns? Returning to the
individual narrative, this session seeks to “ask large questions in small
places” by examining the lived realities of artists’ journeys in
Renaissance Europe.

Please submit proposals electronically to Nicholas Herman
(nicholas.hermanumontreal.ca) and Susie Nash (susie.nashcourtauld.ac.uk)
by June 6th, 2015.

Proposals should include the paper title, a short abstract (150 word
maximum), and a brief curriculum vitae (300 word maximum).

[3]
From: Ananda Cohen Suarez <aic42cornell.edu>
Date: May 23, 2015
Subject: CFP: RSA 2016: Reframing the Renaissance in the 21st Century

Boston, MA, March 31 - April 2, 2016
Deadline: Jun 5, 2015

Reframing the Renaissance in the 21st Century

Claire Farago’s 1995 edited volume, Reframing the Renaissance, has had a
tremendous impact on the field of early modern art history. On the 21st
anniversary of its publication, we invite scholars to reflect on its role
in transforming the way we approach the visual cultures of the early modern
world. We are interested in papers that address the ways Reframing has
helped precipitate broader historiographical, geographical, and pedagogical
reformulations of the "Global Renaissance" and contemporaneous visual
cultures. What challenges do we still face in writing histories of art
produced within the contexts of exploration, conquest, colonialism, and
imperialism? How can we enhance our methodologies to approach art
historical phenomena beyond the inhibiting geopolitical constructs of
nation states, or even continents? If the Renaissance was “Reframed”
in 1995, which qualifier would we use in 2016: Globalized? Decentered?
Decolonized? We invite scholars from different generations and
subdisciplines to offer insights on the ways that Reframing the Renaissance
has changed the field as we know it and to expand its applicability to new
scholarly arenas.

Please send a 150-word abstract and a 300-word CV to Eloise Quiñones Keber
(equinones213gmail.com) and Ananda Cohen Suarez (aic42cornell.edu) by
June 5, 2015.