EHESS Paris
In conclusion of her ERC project SACRIMA, Chiara Franceschini will give a lecture series on “Arcipelagoes of Images: Art and Inquisition in the Early Modern Period” as Guest Professor at the EHESS in Paris.
After three years as a doctoral researcher in the Sacrima project, Nelleke de Vries will start her new job as Curator of Old Masters and Modern Art at Rijksmuseum Twenthe in Enschede, the Netherlands in January 2022.
Rai Tre, #maestri, Edoardo Camurri
A conversation on Rai 3 about images and people on the threshold, lives without identity, and uncertain destinies.
Yanay Israeli
Cloe Cavero examined the complex afterlife of ritual murder accusations as religious cults at the Departamental Seminar of Spanish and Latin American Studies of The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Christine Ott and Hans Aurenhammer, Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main
Alessandro Nova, Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz
Marc Föcking, Universität Hamburg
At the International Conference Capricci luterani. L’opera di Michelangelo sullo sfondo del dibattito interconfessionale (Frankfurt, 5-7 May 2021), Chiara Franceschini discussed new possibilities for interpreting the Sagrestia Nuova and other sixteenth-century Italian works in relation to vigilance and artistic practices of working at night.
Pablo Abascal Sherwell
Cloe Cavero gave a guest lecture on the circulation of cults of saints in the early modern Catholic world at the Department of History of the Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City.
Roma Tre, Patrizia Tosini, Chiara Franceschini
Susanne Kubersky-Piredda (Bibliotheca Hertziana, Rome) and Patrizia Cavazzini (Rome) presented Chapel of the Cinquecento and Seicento in the Churces of Rome, ed. by Chiara Franceschini, Steven F. Ostrow, and Patrizia Tosini (Milan 2020), in an online event organised by Patrizia Tosini at Roma Tre. The Editors’ Introduction and Chiara Franceschini’s chapter are now available here.
A conference at Roma Tre by Chiara Franceschini about the imaginations and the geographies of a local cult and about Inquisitorial control on sacred images in different centres of Mediterranean Europe.
Sonderforschungsbereich 1369 ‘Vigilanzkulturen’
Chiara Franceschini discussed early modern notions of the vigilant artist at the Lecture Series Zeiten der Wachsamkeit, organized within the framework of the SFB 1369 Projekt Vigilanzkulturen based at LMU Munich.
On 10 December, Nelleke de Vries presented her paper on the impact of the engravings of Martin Schongauer (c. 1445/1450-1491) on Spanish painting from the late-fifteenth century onwards. (more…)
Francesca Alberti, Giovanni Careri, Antonella Fenech Kroke
Chiara Franceschini spoke about the ‘Devil’s Crucifixes’ and Ter Brugghen in a digital conference organized by Villa Médicis, Académie de France à Rome.
We welcome Melania Ruiz Sanz de Bremond, who joins Sacrima for a one-month research stay (November-December 2020).
Museo Sefardí de Toledo
Cloe Cavero participated in the Virtual Encounters of the Museo Sefardí de Toledo with a public lecture on the imagery of the Holy Child of La Guardia. (more…)
Historisches Seminar, LMU Munich
On 8 June, Cloe Cavero discussed processes of migration of local cults within the Catholic world in the framework of Neue Forschungen zur Frühen Neuzeit, a seminar organized by Arndt Brendecke. (more…)
On 29 May, Nelleke de Vries discussed the impact of the engravings of Martin Schongauer (c. 1445/1450-1491) in Spain from the late-fifteenth century onwards. (more…)
In February 2020, Erin Giffin traveled to see a series of Santa Casa replicas across the Czech Republic and Austria.
Cécile Vincent-Cassy, Université Paris 13
Chiara Franceschini and Cloe Cavero talked about “Marian Atlases, Image Normativity and the Geography of Art” at the first encounter for a planned research network taking place at Université Paris 13.
Between 18-23 November 2019, the SACRIMA Team participated in the second installment of the DAAD-Waseda seminar at Waseda University, Tokyo. (more…)
In the last week of October 2019, Professor Yoshie Kojima of Waseda University, Tokyo, came to LMU with a group of Waseda researchers to participate in the first installment of the DAAD-Waseda sponsored Seminar “Early Modern Sacred Images in Japan and Europe: Contact, Comparison, Conflict.”
Dr. Katie Jacobiec (Scott Opler Junior Research Fellow in Architectural History, Worcester College, University of Oxford) ; Dr. Laura Moretti (Senior Lecturer, University of St Andrews); Daryl Green, MSc (Librarian, Magdalen College, Oxford)
Over 27-28 September, Erin Giffin presents her ongoing research with a poster at the Thinking 3D: Architecture and Audience conference at Worcester College of Oxford, England, headed by Dr. Katie Jacobiec, as part of the Thinking 3D initiative organized by Dr. Laura Moretti and Daryl Green. (more…)
Nelleke de Vries participated in the Summer School: Northern Renaissance Art, a joint organization between the Rijksmuseum and the RKD–Netherlands Institute for Art History. (more…)
Erin Giffin (SACRIMA, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität); Antonia Putzger (Universität Bielefeld); Chiara Franceschini (LMU)
With the financial support of the Fritz Thyssen Foundation, the SACRIMA team and workshop participants engaged with questions regarding the intermediary function of early modern print culture in new compositions and contexts. (more…)
Daniela Rando (Università di Pavia)
Chiara Franceschini talked about “Il seno di Abramo nell’iconografia europea” in a public lecture at the Collegio Borromeo in Pavia on 9 May 2019
Cécile Vincent-Cassy (Université Paris 13); Jesus Ponce Cárdenas (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)
Luisa Elena Alcalá (UAM); Juan Luis González García (UAM)
Chiara Franceschini and Cloe Cavero participated in the VI Seminario de Arte y Cultura en la Corte, which took place in Madrid at the Casa de México, El Escorial and the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.
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Erin Giffin will present her ongoing research of Santa Casa devotion around the Adriatic in her presentation “The Ark of Loreto: Loretan Devotion throughout the Adriatic”
José Riello (UAM); Borja Franco Llopis (UNED)
In the last week of February, Cloe Cavero travelled to Madrid to present two papers related with her current research project, firstly at the Coloquios Investigadores of the Department of Art History, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM), and following at the Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED), in the framework of the Research Group Before Orientalism: Images of the Muslim in Iberia (15th-17th centuries) and their Mediterranean Connections.
Between February 11-20, Erin Giffin visited the libraries of Zagreb and travelled down the coast from Trsat to Primosten to visit and compare Adriatic replicas of the Santa Casa di Loreto.
In January 2019, the SACRIMA team and students from the fall seminar travelled to a special exhibition at the Castello Sforzesco in Milan. (more…)
In December 2018, SACRIMA’s third conference considered iterations of the Virgin Mary reframed through early modern coronations, revisions, and re-installations. Subjects presented span Northern and Southern Europe across the sixteenth through eighteenth centuries.
Diletta Gamberini (LMU München), Jonathan K. Nelson (Syracuse University Florence), Alessandro Nova (KHI Florenz)
Chiara Franceschini participated in this International Workshop with a paper entitled “‘Ad alcuni è piaciuto, ad altri non punto’: stime e giudizi di artisti nella Roma del Cinquecento”.
Over 11-12 October, 2018, Erin Giffin was invited to present her ongoing research at a joint PhD seminar organized by the Politecnico di Torino and ETH Zurich at the Sacro Monte di Varallo near Milan, Italy.
Between September 16-21, Erin Giffin travelled through Poland to visit and compare various replicas of the Santa Casa di Loreto.
During the months of July and August, Cloe Cavero travelled to Spain to conduct archival research and fieldwork for her research project on child saints.
Nelleke de Vries joins the ERC project SACRIMA as a PhD student with a project on the migration and adaptation of iconographical inventions between Northern and Southern Europe in 1450-1550.
Erin Giffin will present her ongoing current research on Loretan devotion at the Sixth Feminist Art History Conference at American University. Her paper, entitled “Mater Ecclesia(e): Papal Symbolism and the Madonna of Loreto,” explores the evolution of iconographic traits of the Loretan Madonna across the early modern period.
Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Sevilla; Universidad de Sevilla; Università degli Studi Roma Tre; Centro Studi Cultura e Immagine di Roma
Archipelagoes of Images: Islands as Centers of Artistic Encounter and Conflict
The SACRIMA team invites applicants to participate in a cross-cultural seminar at RSA in Toronto, CA (17-19 March, 2019).
Sefy Hendler (Université de Tel Aviv), Florian Métral (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne) et Philippe Morel (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne).
Chiara Franceschini participated in the first part of the International Colloquium La Renaissance des origines. Commencement, genèse et création dans l’art des XVe et XVIe siècles, celebrated in Tel Aviv University (11-12 June) as part of the France-Israel Season 2018.
Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institute for Art History
As a collaboration of the Bibliotheca Hertziana in Rome, SACRIMA, and the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florence, this workshop presents a forum for scholars currently engaged in research projects that reckon with the historiographic challenges continuously shaping contemporary discourse regarding mannerism and artwork produced across the sixteenth century.
In the framework of her research on images and cults of child saints in early modern Europe, Cloe Cavero conducted fieldwork and archival research in the ecclesiastical collections of Toledo and Cuenca.
Chiara Franceschini presented a paper on the role of competing agencies in charge of image control in early modern Catholic countries in the framework of L’Inquisizione Romana e i suoi archivi. A vent’anni dall’apertura dell’ACDF, a conference celebrated in Rome on 15-17 May 2018.
Erin Giffin will present her ongoing research regarding replicas of the Holy House of the Virgin in an upcoming Renaissance Postgraduate Symposium at the Courtauld Institute of Art in London.
This spring, Erin Giffin conducted independent research of Santa Casa replicas in two- and three-dimensional format in multiple communities across Italy.
Chiara Franceschini was invited to present the project and talk about «La normativité des images sacrées à l’époque moderne» in conversation with Emanuele Coccia and Francesca Alberti at the Séminaire collectif d’histoire de l’art de la Renaissance, Paris, INHA, salle Vasari, jeudi 12 avril, 18.00.
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Sacrima Project
One or two PhD students (pre-doctoral researchers) in early modern art history/visual culture are sought to work within SACRIMA
Deadline: 12 April 2018
Renaissance Society of America
Cloe Cavero participated in the RSA 2018 with a paper dealing with the political resonance of the altarpiece of Saints Justus and Pastor in El Escorial.
Università di Verona
Chiara Franceschini presented her new book, Storia del Limbo (Feltrinelli, 2017) in the framework of the lecture series “Leggere il Medioevo: Autori, Incontri, Discussioni” at the Università di Verona.
The itinerary started in the Sala Paolina of Castel Sant’Angelo, where Chiara Franceschini and our guest Tiffany Hunt, M.A., discussed with the group about this fundamental starting point for the study of the late Cinquecento art.
Francesca Alberti (CESR /Université François-Rabelais, Tours), Antonella Fenech Kroke (Centre André Chastel/CNRS)
Chiara Franceschini contributed to the first workshop of the cycle Corps troublants in Paris.
Cloe Cavero visited the crypt where the relics of the two young brothers Saints Justo and Pastor were translated with great magnificence in 1568.
Over the month of December, Erin Giffin visited the Bavarian Holy Houses at Neusäß (in the outskirts of Augsburg), and Türkheim.
Scuola della Cattedrale, Milano
With Salvatore Settis, Armando Torno and Mons. Gianantonio Borgonovo
Bayerisches Nationalmuseum, Prinzregentenstraße 3, München.
In the framework of the International Conference Holy Children, Liminal Bodies: The Status and Materiality of Infancy in Early Modern Visual Culture, the members of the SACRIMA team joined speakers and guests to visit the Bayerische Nationalmuseum of Munich. (more…)
Starting from an investigation of the reinvention, the functions and the adaptations of the ‘normative image’ of the ancient putto in the Renaissance, this conference questioned the multiform transmigration, variation, adaptation and use of images of children in early modern Europe.
Research Seminar (Oberseminar), 2017-2018
Institut für Kunstgeschichte, LMU, Zentnerstr. 31, Room 510. Thursdays, 17-20.
“Contested forms” was the first of a series of planned conferences and workshops organized by the Sacrima team over the duration of the five-year project. These events will open discussions with the larger scientific community regarding the main research questions of the project and/or provide closer analysis of associated sub-projects and case studies.
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Dr. Erin Giffin, PhD University of Washington in Seattle (2017) joins the ERC project SACRIMA as Postdoctoral Research Associate with the project Devotional Translations: Early Modern Replicas of the Holy House of the Virgin.
Cloe Cavero spent six weeks in Spain working on different ecclesiastical archives and visiting churches of the archbishopric of Toledo. (more…)
Cloe Cavero visited Castellón, Valencia, Barcelona, Sigena, Huesca and Zaragoza. (more…)
Institut für Kunstgeschichte, LMU
Veronika Winkler, M.A., is a PhD Candidate at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich with the research project Success Stories in the New World. Transfer, translation and discourse in the mirror of hagiographical painting cycles in Viceroyal Peru (1600-1780).
Erin Giffin participated in the Summer Course for the Study of the Arts in Flanders, eleven days devoted to medieval and renaissance sculpture!
Klaus Krüger and Anne Eusterschulte.
Biblioteca Hertziana – Max Planck-Institut for Kunstgeschichte in Rome.
Chiara Franceschini participated in this interdisciplinary conference with the paper “Appearance of life (Schein-Leben), gradations of reality and liminal figures”.
Casa de Velázquez, Madrid
Coordinated by: Felipe Pereda (Harvard University), María Cruz de Carlos Varona, (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid), Nicolas Morales (EHEHI, Casa de Velázquez)
Cloe Cavero travelled to Madrid to attend a workshop on sacred images at the time of the Reformation.
IBZ, Amalienstr. 38, München.
Chiara Franceschini and Cloe Cavero presented the SACRIMA Project to members of the Kunstwissenschaften Department at LMU.
Research Seminar (Oberseminar), SoSe 2017
Institut für Kunstgeschichte, LMU, Zentnerstr. 31, Room 4. Thursdays, 17-20.
Dr. Cloe Cavero de Carondelet, PhD European University Institute in Florence (2016) joins the ERC project SACRIMA as Postdoctoral Research Associate with the project The Age of Sanctity: Images and Cults of Child Saints in Early Modern Europe and with special responsibility for the geographic area of Iberia.
Prof. Dr. Chiara Franceschini
Rome, Accademia Nazionale di San Luca.
Institut für Kunstgeschichte (LMU München), École Pratique des Hautes Études (Sorbonne) and Accademia Nazionale di San Luca.
Chiara Franceschini presented “Ideal Forms and Ideal Seeing in Roman Chapels” at the International Conference Ideales Sehen und Ideale Sehen in der Renaissance/Ideal Forms and Ideal Seeing in the Renaissance, organized by Sabine Frommel and Ulrich Pfisterer in Rome.
Chiara Franceschini presented the paper “Quandoque imagini adpinxit, quod non legitur in Evangelio. Notes on the autonomy of images in the EHI”, at the international workshop Genèse et postérité des Evangelicae Historiae Imagines (1593), organized by Ralph Dekoninck, Pierre Antoine Fabre et Patrick Goujon.
Applications are sought for up to two Research Associates (Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter/in) for the new ERC funded project SACRIMA, The Normativity of Sacred Images in Early Modern Europe led by Professor Chiara Franceschini and based at the LMU Institute for Art History in Munich, Germany. Applications from other related disciplines are welcome.
Chiara Franceschini presented the SACRIMA project at the Dipartimento di Filosofia e Beni Culturali of the University Ca’ Foscari of Venice.
Chiara Franceschini followed the itinerary of Innocenzo da Petralia in Umbria and in Le Marche, visiting Gubbio, Cagli, San Lorenzo in Campo and Pesaro.
Chiara Franceschini delivered the paper “Lumeggiata da quel fuoco“, Fiamme, inferni e novità pittoriche nel (tardo) Rinascimento” at this conference, organized by Federica Favino and Maria Conforti at the Università di Roma La Sapienza.
Prof. Dr. Chiara Franceschini joins the Institut for Kunstgeschichte of the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich as Professor of Early Modern Art with the ERC Project SACRIMA / The Normativity of Sacred Images in Early Modern Europe.
Chiara Franceschini organized the panel Image Normativity and Religion in Italy and Spain: New Perspectives at the RSA Boston, sponsored by the Italian Academy for Advanced Study in America, Columbia University.
