Tra saperi e pratiche di cantiere / Entre savoirs et pratiques de chantier / Between Knowledge and Workshop Practices / Entre saberes y prácticas de taller.

Training, Artistic Exchanges and Technical Languages in the Renaissance (15th – early 17th century) /
Formación, intercambios artísticos y lenguajes técnicos en el Renacimiento (siglo XV – comienzos del siglo XVII) /
Formazione, scambi artistici e linguaggi tecnici nel Rinascimento (XV – inizio XVII sec.) /
Formation, échanges artistiques et langages techniques à la Renaissance (XVe – début XVIIe siècle).

Organized by Politecnico di Torino (DAD – Construction History Group) in collaboration with Università degli Studi di Torino (Dipartimento di Studi Storici), this event continues a prestigious tradition of international seminars for young Renaissance researchers. Originally established at the University of Leipzig, this traveling series has previously visited Würzburg, Jaén, Paris, and Prague, establishing itself as a vital European hub for academic exchange.

Program

11 June 2026 – Castello del Valentino, Room 5V

10:00 Welcome remarks

10:20 Keynote lecture – Sabine Frommel

Session 1 – Constructive building knowledge on the move
Moderator: Valentina Burgassi

10:50 Davide Confaloneri
«Studiar Vitruvio senza Vitruvio». Reti internazionali e mecenatismo nelle accademie di Claudio Tolomei

11:05 Agnese De Col
Giovanni De Rosis e i Gesuiti nel Mezzogiorno: la chiesa del Gesù di Lecce

11:20 Fiona Sit
The Migrants’ Workshop: Tuscan Artisans at the Girolamini in Early Modern Naples

11:35 Discussion with Maria Beltramini

11:50 Coffee Break

12:10 Laurent Zidel-Cauffet
Georges d’Armagnac promoteur d’une Renaissance dans le Rouergue

12:25 Lucia Perez
Diego Siloé dans les chantiers de la cathédrale de Séville. Statuts, interventions, collaborations

12:40 Nicole Falconi
Building for Science: The Fabrication of the Anatomical Theatre in Barcelona, 1760–1764

12:55 Discussion with Edoardo Piccoli

13:10 Lunch Break

15:45 Visit to Archivio di Stato di Torino (Sezione Corte)
Viewing Pirro Ligorio manuscripts

17:00 Book presentation with Grégoire Extermann
Artists, Works and Treatises: The Mobility of Forms between the Courts of the Iberian Monarchy in the Ancien Régime

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12 June 2026

10:30 Keynote lecture – Giuseppe Dardanello

Session 2 – Decoration, scenography and gardens
Moderator: Serena Quagliaroli

11:00 Martina Adami
Tra arte e cantiere. Maestranze e pratiche nella produzione delle terrecotte decorative rinascimentali nel Ducato di Milano

11:15 Sesilia Decolli
Il cantiere festivo nell’Italia del Cinquecento

11:30 Carlos Lozano Guillem
Cantieri d’inchiostro

11:45 Discussion with Grégoire Extermann

12:00 Coffee Break

12:20 Léa Monteil
Architecture et décoration peinte des cheminées entre France et Italie au XVIe siècle

12:35 Alexis Nanavati
Mapping Collaborative Practices at the Palladian Villas

12:50 Marine Thebaud

Il Cavalier d’Arpino e la gestione dei cantieri decorativi

13:05 Pavla Savicka
Reflections of Baroque sculpture in engravings

13:20 Discussion with Taťána Petrasová

13:35 Lunch Break

Session 3 – Professionals and technicians on building sites
Moderator: Marco Di Salvo

15:00 Mercedes Simal López
La Verónica de Jaén (VERÓNICA)

15:15 Lucia Merino Garrido
El taller de Juan de Aranda Salazar

15:30 Tadeáš Kadlec
Building in Early-Baroque Central Europe

15:45 Discussion and conclusion

16:00 Visit to Castello del Valentino

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Castello del Valentino, Room 5V, Turin
11–12 June 2026

Curator of the Seminar:
Valentina Burgassi (Politecnico di Torino)

Contact: valentina.burgassipolito.it

Organising Committee:
Valentina Burgassi (Politecnico di Torino)
Marco Di Salvo (Politecnico di Milano)
Leone Carlo Ghoddousi (Politecnico di Torino)
Serena Quagliaroli (Università degli Studi di Torino)

Scientific Committee:
Maria Beltramini Maria Beltramini (Università degli Studi di Torino)
Richard Biegel (Charles University, Institute for Art History)
Valentina Burgassi (Politecnico di Torino)
Paolo Cornaglia (Politecnico di Torino)
Cristina Cuneo (Politecnico di Torino)
Marco Di Salvo (Politecnico di Milano)
Francesco Paolo Di Teodoro (Museo Galileo)
Sabine Frommel (École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris Sciences et Lettres PSL)
Pedro A. Galera Andreu (Universidad de Jaén -Cátedra Andrés de Vandelvira)
Giacinta Jean (Scuola universitaria professionale della Svizzera italiana SUPSI)
Eckhard Leuschner (Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg)
Taeána Petrasová (Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Institute of Art History)
Edoardo Piccoli (Politecnico di Torino)
Serena Quagliaroli (Università degli Studi di Torino)
Felipe Serrano Estrella (Universidad de Jaén-Cátedra Andrés de Vandelvira)
Vasco Zara (Université de Rouen Normandie UR 3229 CÉRÉdI)

Scientific Partners:
Politecnico di Torino
Università degli Studi di Torino
Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
Centro Studi Vitruviani
École Pratique des Hautes Études
University of Würzburg
Universidad de Jaén

This event is part of the international seminars tradition for young researchers on the Renaissance held across Europe.