10.00 – 10.15 - Austeja Mackelaitt and Camilla Pietrabissa (The Courtauld Institute of Art): Introduction

10.15 – 11.30 - SESSION I

• Yannis Hadjinicolaou (Freie Universität Berlin / Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin): Thinking Hand, Painting Process and the Rembrandt Tradition
• Carlton Hughes (University of South Carolina-Upstate): Michelangelo’s Concetto
• Anna Sgobbi (Ludwigs-Maximilians-Universität, Munich): The Self-Portrait of Giovanni Paolo Lomazzo (1538-1592): The Gymnosophist Artist and his Way of Painting

12.00 – 13.15 -  SESSION II

• Nicolas Misery (Université Lumière Lyon 2 / Laboratoire de Recherche Historique en Rhône Alpes (LARHRA)): Parmigianino’s Prometheus Animating Man (ca. 1526 -1530): Gesturing the Poetics of Artistic Creation in the Italian Sixteenth Century
• Claudia Steinhardt-Hirsch (Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte, Munich): The Speaking Hand: The Act of Drawing in Early Modern Italy
• Tamar Mayer (University of Chicago): Drawing Hands: Trace, Pressure and Reversal in Jacques-Louis David’s Preparatory Practices

14.00 – 14.45 - Linda Karshan: ‘I am after the most perfect line’. Two workshops with the artist at the Prints and Drawings Study Room, The Courtauld Institute of Art.

14.45 – 16.00 - SESSION III

• Temenuzhka Dimova (Université de Strasbourg): Comput digitis: the Arithmetic of Fingers in the Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century French Painting
• Johanna Scherer (Hochschule für Bildende Künste Braunschweig): Measuring Hands: Gestures in the Image of the Sixteenth-Century Artist
• Jungyoon Yang (Universiteit van Amsterdam): Trusting Hands: The dextrarum iunctio in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Epithalamia

16.20 – 17.45 -  SESSION IV

• Catherine Hunt (University of Bristol): The Vicarious Hand, the Intelligent Glove
• Joaneath Spicer (Walters Art Museum, Baltimore): The Possessive Hand: Gathering Intelligence, Experiencing Pleasure in the Renaissance
• Nina Samuel (Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung Berlin / Image Knowledge Gestaltung. An Interdisciplinary Laboratory Cluster of Excellence Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin): Hand in Hand: Anatomical and Architectural Links to Reconstructive Hand Surgery in Early Modern Art