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• 16 oct 2014

  17 oct 2014

  18 oct 2014

  Venice

  Conference, symposium - Early modern

  “Venetian” enamels on copper from the Italian Renaissance

  Artistic geography, collecting, technology

  Enamelled and gold flecked copperware are a rare and highly refined feature of the decorative arts of the Italian Renaissance, of which less than three hundred pieces survive, and which are traditionally referred to as Venetian. Admired and sought after in the 19th century, when the main European collections were built up, these objects, whose origins date back to the end of the fifteenth century, were subsequently forgotten. The cross-disciplinary conference will shed light on technical and manufacturing aspects, and the forms and decorations of these artistic masterworks, which can be found in major museums and collections throughout the world, and point to the socio-cultural context of which they are a product. An attempt will be made to define a corpus of forms and decorations, to identify clients and patrons, thanks mainly to research into heraldry and symbols, and finally to trace their arrival on the European and American art markets in the 19th and 20th centuries respectively.

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• 05 sep 2014

  Venice

  Call for papers - Urban studies

  Experimental and alternative urbanism in the MENA region: building a critical and ‘political’ research on the ‘new’ modes of making the city

  Italian Association for Middle Eastern Studies (SeSaMO) Annual Conference - Panel 12

  This panel focuses on the renewed forms to build the city in the MENA region (‘environmental planning’, ‘resilient urbanism’, ‘responsive urbanism’, participatory and ‘collaborative’ initiatives, ‘sustainable’ urbanism…). The panel will tackle two types of spaces: informal settlements, where experimental forms and new methods are at work, and major eco-projects which have adopted in recent years ecological processes, along with global strategies. The major research hypothesis is that the MENA region shows at least since the 2000s new forms of urbanism that, to varying degrees, bring weak but maybe harbinger/forerunner signals of change and innovation, driven by the concepts of environment and sustainability. This is valid for both urban governance and the theoretical underpinnings of it, whereby professional training and the learning ways of doing, thinking and working on the city, shows some progressive changes. The panel will seek to understand why, however, the MENA seems to experience difficulties in ‘refreshing its software’ on regional, national and local theory and practice of urban planning. 

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• 10 avr 2014

  11 avr 2014

  Venice

  Conference, symposium - Middle Ages

  Digital Paleography. Projects, prospects, potentialities

  An International Workshop

  L’atelier explorera un champ de recherche à la pointe et examinera les potentialités des technologies de l’informations appliquées au systèmes graphiques non-imprimés, quel qu’en soit le support. Trois thèmes principaux seront abordés : 1) état de l’art ; 2) diversité des approches et potentialités dans la reconnaissance automatisée des écritures médiévales ; 3) écritures personnelles des XVIe-XVIIIe siècle.

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