EYEWITNESSING THE EXTREME
Early Modern Martyrdom and the Status of the Image

Renaissance Society of America, 6th annual meeting
Venezia, 8-10 april 2010

PROGRAM:

Thursday, 8 April
Don Orione - Sala Canova

Panel I, 2:30–4:00
Chair: Gerhard Wolf, Max-Planck-Institut, KHI, Firenze

2:30–2:40
Introduction: Elisabeth Priedl (Akademie der Künste Wien)
& Carolin Behrmann (Humboldt-Universität Berlin)

2:40–3:10
Galina Tirnanic, The Getty Research Institute
Politics of Martyrdom and Punishment in Byzantine Visual Culture:
St. Euphemia at the Hippodrome

3:10–3:40
Assaf Pinkus, Tel Aviv University
Moving Violence: The Martyr’s Cycle of Schwäbisch Gmünd

3:40–4:10
Alexandra Suda, New York University
The Girona Martyrology (Prague 1410)

Coffee break 4:10 – 4:30

Panel II, 4:30–6:00
Chair: Carolin Behrmann/Elisabeth Priedl

4:30–5:00
Brigitte Roux, Université de Genève
Albrecht Dürer e il Martire dei 10,000 cristiani (Vienna,
Kunsthistorisches Museum)

5:00–5:30
Ilaria Bianchi, Università degli Studi di Bologna
Santi e i martiri in si strane guise tormentati: le raffigurazioni
martiriali della cripta della cattedrale Bolognese

5:30–6:00
Jetze Touber, University of Utrecht
Techniques of Torture: The Martyrological Works of Antonio Gallonio
(1556–1605)

Friday, 9 April 2010
Università Ca’ Foscari - San Basilio - Aula 1C

Panel III, 2:00–3:30
Chair: Horst Bredekamp, Humboldt-Universität Berlin

2:00–2:30
Jasmin Mersmann, Humboldt-University Berlin
Change of Clothes: The Transforming Power of Eyewitnessing

2:30–3:00
Mateusz Kapustka, University of Wroclaw
Martyrs and Scientists, or How to Prove the Torment with Images

3:00–3:30
Arnold Witte, Universiteit van Amsterdam
Narrative to Icon? Depictions of Martyrdom in the San Martino ai Monti

Coffee break 3:30–4:00

Panel IV, 4:00–5:30
Chair: Livio Pestilli, Trinity College Rome

4:00–4:30
Max Michael Freeman, Harvard University
Love’s Martyrs: Petrarchan Martiri and Protestant Poetics

4:30–5:00
Edward Payne, The Courtauld Institute of Art
Suspended Bodies: Ribera’s Martyrdom Scenes

5:00–5:30
Tobias Kämpf, Università della Svizzera Italiana Medrisio
Blood, Bones, and Bodies: Romantic Revivals of Roman Martyrs

Organization:
Carolin Behrmann [carolin.behrmannculture.hu-berlin.de]
Elisabeth Priedl [e.priedlakbild.ac.at]