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• 29 mai 2015

  Rome

  Study days - Thought

  Esthésies

  Approches plastiques du sensible

  La peinture semble révéler, avant toute chose, l’expérience sensible du voir. Mais ne peut-elle pas, aussi, dans certains cas, faire percevoir par l’œil quelque chose qui relèverait d’un autre ordre sensoriel ? Peut-on goûter, sentir, entendre, toucher avec les yeux ? Si les spécialistes se sont beaucoup interrogés sur le passage du sensible à l’art – notamment sur la place de la nature dans les œuvres d’art anciennes, où on sait l’importance culturelle qu’y exerçait la mimesis –, le passage de l’art au sensible est, quant à lui, plus rarement considéré.

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• 15 fév 2015

  Rome

  Call for papers - History

  Merchants, jurists and other "intermediate groups" in Early Modern Southern Europe

  Merchants, farmers, jurists, clerks in large institutions, secretaries, independent landowners, local elites and highly sought master craftsmen, among many others, are individuals with an ambiguous social status. Looking at who was not born exactly noble, nor exactly commoner, but stood on the border between one world and the other, is one of the goals of this initiative. As part of a project developed in Portugal focusing on the Holy Office’s familiaturas, it will be held on September 16 and 17, 2015, a workshop at Escuela Española de Historia and Archaeological in Rome. Our aim is to select a total of 8 applicants, that will be joined by 4 guest speakers, for a joint reflection on the dynamics and profiles of ‘intermediate groups’, as well as on the methodologies for their study in Early Modern Times.

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• 25 jan 2015

  Rome

  Call for papers - Europe

  Heraldry in the Medieval City – The Case of Italy in the European Context

  A visitor passing through Italy is surprised by the abundance of coats of arms that still decorate the palaces and public monuments of its cities. Relatively undisturbed by the tides of history that destroyed a lot of Europe's heraldic heritage, in the Italian cities this heritage is still alive and well. While the development of heraldic signs occasionally caught the eye of historians and art historians, they have never done justice to the multitude and diversity of the existing sources. Recently, however, research has taken an interest in the subject with renewed vigour and approaches, especially in the case of Italy. The aim of this conference is to establish the current state of research and to advance the subject by linking more closely the history of heraldic communication and the history of cities. To do so, the Italian example shall be put into a European perspective.

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