Institut für Kunstgeschichte der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München and Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte in collaboration with the Musei Vaticani, the Gabinetto dei Disegni e delle Stampe degli Uffizi and the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut

PROGRAM

Monday, 5 October 2015

Location: Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut, Palazzo Grifoni Budini Gattai, Via dei Servi 51, 50121 Firenze (free admission until capacity is reached)

  • 10.00 Welcome & Introduction
  • Arnold Nesselrath (Musei Vaticani and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) andUlrich Pfisterer (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)
  • 10.30 Stefano Pierguidi (Sapienza, Rome)The Rivalry of the Quattrocento Painters
  • 11.10 Ulrich Pfist erer (LMU, Munich): Speed! On the chronology of the Quattrocento frescoes
  • 11.50 Tristan Weddigen (University of Zürich): Raphael's Tapestries for the Sistine Chapel

Location: Gabinetto dei Disegni e delle Stampe degli Uffizi, Via della Ninna 5, 50122 Firenze (only for speakers)

  • 13.30 – 15.30 Introduction
  • Marzia Faietti (Gabinetto dei Disegni e delle Stampe degli Uffizi): The Piermatteo d'Amelia-drawing of the ceiling

Location: Musei Vaticani, Viale Vaticano (only for speakers)

  • 19.30 – 22.00 Visit Sistine Chapel
  • Introduction
  • Chiara Franceschini (Italian Academy, Columbia Univ./EHESS Paris): Movement in the Sistine Chapel

Tuesday, 6 October

Location: Musei Vaticani, Lecture Room, Viale Vaticano, 00165 Roma (only for speakers)

  • 9.30 Peter Howard (Monash University): The Visual Art of Preaching in the Frescoes of the Sistine Chapel
  • 10.10 Giovanni Careri (EHESS Paris) The Ancestors of Christ
  • 11.30 David Summers (University of Virginia): The Great Sabbath. Michelangelo, Pico, and the Sistine Chapel Ceiling
  • 12.10 Kim Butler (American University, Washington DC): Im/maculate Bodies in the Sistine Chapel
  • 14.00 Vitale Zanchettin (Musei Vaticani): L'architettura dipinta della volta
  • 14.40 Peter Gillgren (Stockholm University): Being in the Sistine Chapel: The Wennerberg Experience
  • 15.20 Bernadine Barnes (Wake Forest University): Viewing the Last Judgment from within and outside the Sistine Chapel
  • 16.40 Peter Lukehart (CASVA Washington): The Afterlife of Nude Saints in Michelangelo's Last Judgment
  • 17.20 Massimiliano Rossi (Università del Salento): L'età dell'oro: la maniera moderna nella Sistina come paradigma epocale

Discussants

  • Carmen Bambach (Metropolitan Museum NYC), Matteo Burioni (LMU Munich), Michael Cole (Columbia University NYC), Tobias Daniels (Bibliotheca Hertziana / Max-Planck-Institute, Rome), Ana Debenedetti (Victoria & Albert Museum, London), Sybille Ebert-Schifferer (Bibliotheca Hertziana / Max-Planck-Institute, Rome), Thomas Ertl (University of Vienna), Marc Evans (Victoria & Albert Museum, London), Fabian Jonietz (KHI, Florence), Klaus Krüger (FU Berlin), Florian Métral (Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne), Philippe Morel (INHA, Paris), Cristina Ruggero (LMU Munich), Andreas Schumacher (Alte Pinakothek, Munich), Gerhard Wolf (KHI, Florence)