A collaboration of Kunstgschichtliches Institut der Ruhr-Universität Bochum (Valeska von Rosen), Gallerie degli Uffizi, Florence (Eike Schmidt) and Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte Munich (Ulrich Pfisterer) supported by Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz/Max-Planck-Institut (Alessandro Nova):
The study day examines selected examples in the run-up to the new presentation of the collection of self-portraits of the Uffizi: Alessandro Allori, Andrea del Sarto, Leandro Bassano, Gianlorenzo Bernini, Annnibale Carracci, Ludovico Cigoli, Johannes Gumpp, Perugino, Andrea Pozzo, Titian, and Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun.
Speakers include Andreas Beyer, Heiko Damm, Gail Feigenbaum, Isabell Franconi, Fabian Jonietz, Maria Loh, Ulrich Pfisterer, Andreas Plackinger, Rudolf Preimesberger, Anna-Maria Procajlo, Anna Reynolds, Valeska von Rosen, Fabiana Senkpiel.
Programme:
MONDAY, Sept. 10
10.00 am
Saluto: Eike Schmidt, Ulrich Pfisterer, Valeska von Rosen
Eike Schmidt: The collection of self-portraits in the Uffizi
Valeska von Rosen: Some Remarks on the Genesis of Leopoldo’s Galleria degli autoritratti
Isabell Franconi: I modi di ricezione degli autoritratti d’artista nel Museum Florentinum e nella Raccolta all’esempio dei ritratti di Andrea del Sarto, Annibale Carracci e Lorenzo Lippi
Heiko Damm: Giovanni da San Giovanni’s Frescoes on Tile: A Florentine Tradition
Andreas Beyer: Everything except self-portraits
Fabiana Senkpiel: Der Akt der Bildwerdung: Zeit- und Medienreflexion im Selbstporträt von Alessandro Allori
2.00 pm
Anna Reynolds: Ludovico Cardi, called Il Cigoli
Gail Feigenbaum: Carracci
Anna Maria Procajlo: Gumpp
Valeska von Rosen: Artistic operare: Francesco Bassano, Gian Lorenzo Bernini and Federico Barocci
Andreas Plackinger: Vigée-Lebrun
Due to limited space participation is unfortunately possible only for a limited number of guests.
The evening lecture Sept 10, 6 pm at Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florence/Max-Planck-Institute, Palazzo Grifoni, Via dei Servi 51 is open to the public:
Rudolf Preimesberger: "El Greco. The missing face and its substitution"
Reference:
CONF: Self-portraits / The Uffizi Collection Florence (Florence, 10-11 Sep 18). In: ArtHist.net, Sep 4, 2018 (accessed Oct 17, 2026), <https://arthist.net/archive/18739>.