FLORENTINE PROVENANCES:
The circulation of cultural assets in the city of Florence, 20th-21st centuries.
3rd Workshop of the Working group Italy (Arbeitskreis Provenienzforschung e.V.)
in cooperation with the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut
10 - 11 November 2025 (and online*)
PROGRAMME
Monday 10 November 2025
14.00 – 14.30: Welcome and Opening remarks
Alice Cazzola (Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut; University of Heidelberg) & Bianca Gaudenzi (SAGAS, University of Florence; Wolfson College, University of Cambridge)
New Voices from the Archives: art market and connoisseurship
Chair: Joanna Smalcerz (University of Warsaw; Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz - Max-Planck-Institut)
Antonio Marras (Bardini Heritage Historical Archive): The Antiquarian Activity of Ugo Bardini: Unpublished Archival Sources and Research Perspectives
Louise Arizzoli & Marta Binazzi (I Tatti, the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies): Florentine Provenances in the Photo-Archive: Bernard and Mary Berenson’s International Network
16.00 – 16.30: COFFEE BREAK
16.30 – 18.00: Panel II
Between musico- and bibliophilia: tracing provenances of musical instruments and books
Chair: Alice Cazzola
Luna Silvestri (Association Musique & Spoliations): Provenance Research on The Wartime Spoliation of Musical Instruments in Italy
18.00 – 20:00: Afternoon break (Internal meeting of the Working Group Italy)
21.00: Dinner (self-funded)
Tuesday 11 November 2025
9.30 – 11.30: Panel IIIProvenance as expression of cultural intent
Chair: Cristiano Giometti (SAGAS, University of Florence)
Lynn Catterson (Columbia University New York): Ugo Bardini and his many layers of provenance information
Fiona Ricklow (Independent art and architectural historian, London): Florentine Provenance and Private Collecting: The Schroders and the Legacy of the RenaissanceMariaelena Floriani (Università di Genova; St Andrews University): The Sanford Lost Collection. Florentine Provenances from 1832 to the present
11.30 – 12.00: COFFEE BREAK
12.00 – 13.30: Provenance research through photographs. Insights into the holdings of the Photothek of the Kunsthistorisches Institute in Florenz
Almut Goldhahn (Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut) (limited places, for speakers and chairs only)
13.30 – 14.45: LUNCH BREAK (self-funded)
15.00 – 17.00: Final roundtable (Casa Zuccari, via Giusti 49)Beyond Florence: the circulation of cultural objects in Italy, 20th and 21st centuries
Chair: Bianca Gaudenzi
•Donata Levi (Università degli Studi di Udine)
•Christian Fuhrmeister (LMU München; Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte)
•Emanuele Pellegrini (Scuola IMT Alti Studi Lucca)
•Gerhard Wolf (Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut)
NB different venue: Casa Zuccari, via Giusti 49 (no zoom connection)
In-person attendance will be limited so please make sure to register by emaling alice.cazzolakhi.fi.it by 7 November.
*All the panels will be streamed online via
https://eu02web.zoom-x.de/j/66781965195 (10.11.2025)
https://eu02web.zoom-x.de/j/65917438868 (11.11.2025)
Quellennachweis:
CONF: Florentine Provenances (Florence/online, 10-11 Nov 25). In: ArtHist.net, 02.10.2025. Letzter Zugriff 04.10.2025. <https://arthist.net/archive/50766>.