Freitag, 25. November 2022, 18:30 - 20:00 iCal
The Urban Sensorium: two talks on medieval Florence
Two public lectures held as part of 'the Urban Sensorium', a collaborative project between the universities of Vienna and Chicago, dedicated to finding new futures for the history of the senses in medieval Europe.
Institut für Kunstgeschichte, Seminarraum 1
Garnisongasse 13, Universitätscampus Hof 9, 1090 Wien
Antrittsvorlesung, Public Lecture
Deutsche Version:
Wir laden Sie herzlich zu zwei öffentlichen Vorträgen ein, die im Rahmen von "the Urban Sensorium" (einem Kooperationsprojekt der Universitäten Wien und Chicago) stattfinden, das sich der Suche nach neuen Perspektiven für die Geschichte der Sinne im mittelalterlichen Europa widmet.
Institut für Kunstgeschichte (Garnisongasse 13, Universitätscampus Hof 9), Seminarraum 1, am 25. November 2022 um 18.30 Uhr.
Beide Vorträge finden in englischer Sprache statt.
English version:
You are warmly invited to join us for two public lectures held as part of 'the Urban Sensorium', a collaborative project between the universities of Vienna and Chicago, dedicated to finding new futures for the history of the senses in medieval Europe.
History of Art Institute (Garnisongasse 13, Universitätscampus Hof 9), Seminar Room 1, at 18.30 on 25 November 2022.
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Prof Niall Atkinson, Associate Professor of Art History, University of Chicago
Architecture, Contagion, and Storytelling in Medieval Florence: Sensorial Experience and Spatial History
It was as an aspiring architectural historian that I encountered sound as an endlessly generative mechanism to understand the social dimensions of urban space in the early modern city. That experience led me to think about the larger sensorium as an integral part of a spatial history that countered the visual hegemony of art historical research and also led to productive encounters with other historical disciplines. This project, therefore, draws on two pre-modern Italian authors who offered literary responses to the plague and social upheaval they experienced round them as a way to explore relative in/stability of the relationship between bodies and buildings, between urban society and the built environment in an early modern context. Giovanni Boccaccio’s Decameron and Franco Sacchetti’s Il Trecentonovelle explore variations on this theme in which the sensing body becomes the means by which one can assess how well a community is functioning as both a social and a spatial phenomenon.
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Dr. Katalin Prajda, Postdoctoral Research Scholar, Institut für Geschichte, Universität Wien
Making Sense of Florentine Identity: Nicknames in early Renaissance Florence
The Renaissance period was characterized by the works of leading artists like Pisanello, Perugino, Donatello, Massaccio, Masolino, who are typically known to us by their nicknames. But who has ever heard of Piero, the currier, who in the 1378 city census went by the nickname Perugino, or Andrea di Stefano, the shoemaker who was mentioned as Giotto. My interest in Florentine nicknames arose from my previous works on Florentine city censuses (1378, 1427-31, 1433, 1458) and as well as on Florentine artisans. Many of these appellatives or nicknames were based on physical traits. Among them probably the Fat Woodcarver (El Grasso), Filippo Brunelleschi’s friend, is the most noted one who was commemorated in an anecdote composed by the humanist Antonio di Tuccio Manetti. My talk will address the role nicknames played in identity construction in early Renaissance Florence.
Both talks will be given in English.
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Bitte bleiben Sie anschließend für Fragen, Diskussionen und Erfrischungen.
Please join us afterwards for questions, discussion and refreshments.
Veranstalter
Vienna Chicago Faculty Grant
Kontakt
Gabriel Byng
Institut für Kunstgeschichte
+43-1-4277-41484
gabriel.byng@univie.ac.at
Erstellt am Donnerstag, 17. November 2022, 17:33
Letzte Änderung am Donnerstag, 24. November 2022, 15:23