The Colors of Paradise –
Painting Miniatures in Italian Convents, ca. 1300-1700
International Conference
Thursday, October 11 – Friday, October 12, 2018
Biblioteca di San Marco, Florence
Thursday, October 11
OPENING REMARKS
9:30-10:00
Stefano Casciu (Polo Museale della Toscana)
Marilena Tamassia (Museo di San Marco)
Alessio Assonitis (The Medici Archive Project)
Sheila Barker (The Medici Archive Project)
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
10:10 – 11:00
Catherine Turrill Lupi (California State University, Sacramento)
Minio, quadretto, quadro: A Painter’s Progress at the Convent of Santa Caterina da Siena in Florence.
PANEL I
WOMEN IN THE COLOPHONS: PATTERNS AND TRENDS
11:20 – 12:30
Melissa Moreton (Obermann Center for Advanced Studies, University of Iowa)
Convent Industry: Nuns’ Scribal Work and the Production of Manuscripts in Renaissance Italy
Mercedes Pérez-Vidal (Heinrich Heine Universität-Düsseldorf)
Libros miniare potestis: Commission and Production of Books in Northern Italian Nunneries, 13th–16th Centuries
PANEL II
WOMEN IN THE COLOPHONS: CASE STUDIES
14:15 – 15:45
Marilena Tamassia (Museo di San Marco)
Spazi per creatività, lavoro, e preghiera nel monastero di Santa Caterina da Siena
Helena Szepe (University of South Florida)
Manuscripts for Augustinian Canonesses in Venice
Kathleen G. Arthur (James Madison University)
Taking the Leap from Scribe to Artist: Maria Ormanno degli Albizzi and the Nun-Scribes at San Gaggio
PANEL III
THE USE OF ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPTS IN THE LITURGIES AND DEVOTIONS OF NUNS
16:00 – 17:30
Marco Battaglia (University of California, Santa Cruz)
Laura Alidori Battaglia (Université de Genève)
La miniatura per le benedettine di San Pier Maggiore a Firenze nella prima metà del XIV secolo: Un episodio di celebrazione della storia del monastero
Chiara Maggioni (Independent Scholar)
Codici miniati dal Monastero Maggiore di Milano: ‘Et nomen majoris, non tempora sed imperiali dignitate’
Raffaele Argenziano (Università degli Studi di Siena)
La decorazione di un libro d’ore dell’Alto Reno per la preghiera e la meditazione di Colomba da Rieti a Perugia sul finire del XV secolo
Friday, October 12
OPENING REMARKS
10:15-10:30
PANEL IV
REFLECTIONS ON NUNS’ MINIATURES AND THEIR MEANINGS
10:30 – 12:00
Loretta Vandi (La Scuola del Libro)
Choir-Books, Inspirational Ornament, and Chant Performance in the Convent of San Domenico in Lucca
Sheila Barker (The Medici Archive Project)
Space for the Imagination: Invention and Nuns’ Miniatures, 15th–18th Centuries
Giancarla Periti (University of Toronto)
On Nuns and Smallness
DISCUSSION & CONCLUSION
12:15-12:45
Quellennachweis:
CONF: The Colors of Paradise (Florence, 11-12 Oct 2018). In: ArtHist.net, 01.10.2018. Letzter Zugriff 28.03.2024. <https://arthist.net/archive/19083>.