"Material Bernini"

An International Symposium

University of Toronto

Friday, November 30, 2012

Jackman Hall, Art Gallery of Ontario

6:00-7:30pm

Keynote Speaker: C.D. Dickerson (Curator, Kimbell Art Museum, Texas)

"Bernini and Clay: Lessons from an Exhibition"

(C.D. Dickerson is co-curator of the exhibition Bernini. Sculpting in Clay, currently on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York)

Saturday, December 1, 2012

John H. Daniel's School of Architecture, 230 College Street , Toronto

9:00 am-5pm

9:00-9:45

Evonne Levy (University of Toronto) and Carolina Mangone (University of

Toronto)

Introduction: A Material Bernini Abecedario

9:45-10:30

Steven F. Ostrow (University of Minnesota) Bernini's Terracotta Sketches and the Fire of Art

10:30-10:45 Coffee Break

10:45-11:30

Matt Kavaler (University of Toronto)

Long Before Duquesnoy: Netherlandish Terracotta Sculpture at the Beginning of the Early Modern Era

11:30-12:15

Joris van Gastel (Humboldt University)

Body and Clay: Material Agency from a Seventeenth-Century Perspective

12:15-1:30 Lunch Break

1:30-2:15

Maarten Delbeke (Ghent University/Leiden University)

The matter of metaphors. Three thoughts

2:15-3:00

Michael Cole (Columbia University)

Title tba

3:00-3:15 Coffee Break

3:15-4:00

Fabio Barry (University of St. Andrews)

Material/Immaterial Bernini

4:00-4:45

Frank Fehrenbach (Harvard University)

Title tba

4:45-5:00 Concluding Discussion

The Material Bernini Symposium is an academic event intended for students and interested members of the public. It is free of charge. Donations, however, are appreciated.

This symposium is supported by the Vice-Principal of Research, UTM; Murray Frum; The Art Gallery of Ontario; The Emil Goggio Chair of Italian Studies (University of Toronto); The Department of Art (University of Toronto); The Center for Renaissance and Reformation Studies (University of Toronto); Evonne Levy; The Students of FAH 493 at UTM.

For Further Information Contact the Symposium Organizers:

Evonne Levy evonne.levyutoronto.ca<mailto:evonne.levyutoronto.ca> or Carolina Mangone caro.mangoneutoronto.ca<mailto:caro.mangoneutoronto.ca>