Title: Looking at the Overlooked in Quattrocento Architecture and
Architectural Treatises
San Francisco, 22-25 March 2006
Deadline: 2005-05-15

Description: For a series of sessions at the annual conference of the RSA
Renaissance Society of America, to be held in San Francisco, March 22-25
2006, papers are being sought that address "Looking at the Overlooked in
Quattrocento Architecture and Architectural Treatises".

Quattrocento architecture and architectural treatises are studied almost
exclusively by scholars of art history, who usually disregard elements not
related to their traditional domain, such as ritual, magic, astrology,
cosmology, alchemy, travel literature, utopia, architecture parlante, art
of memory. Sessions will focus on the early Italian Renaissance,
especially on Filarete and Francesco di Giorgio Martini. But other
proposals are very welcome. Also invited are unusual perspectives
regarding occult versus humanism, medieval tradition versus revival of
antiquity, tradition and revival versus invention.

Send abstracts and short curriculum vitae by May 15 to: hubbchello.at

Berthold Hub
University of Vienna
Art History Department

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