Hybrid conference ”Artists’ Workshop Practice in the Renaissance” on 20-21 September 2023

The conference focuses on the Italian Renaissance artists’ workshop practice. The conference focuses on the Italian Renaissance artists’ workshop practice. While many scholars consider the work made in artists’ workshops and much recent scholarship seeks to attribute the outputs of the assistants of well-known painters and sculptors, there are still many questions concerning quotidian life in the workshop that have attracted little scholarly attention, and about which we know very little – or practically nothing.
Expert meeting 25-26 May 2023- From the mind to the page: navigating the early modern sketchbook

In order to gain a better understanding of the functioning of early modern sketchbooks from the North, this expert-meeting aims to look beyond the separate folios to uncover the rationale behind these objects.
Lecture: “From Decorated Armor to Collectible Paper: the Beginning of the Printed Etching” on May 30, 2023 at 6PM

The Director of the Netherlands Interuniversity Institute for Art History (NIKI), Michael W. Kwakkelstein, in partnership with the Director of Art in Tuscany, Alessandra Baroni, has the pleasure to invite you to the lecture by Nadine Orenstein (Drue Heinz Curator in Charge, Department of Drawings and Print, The Metropolitan Museum), entitled “From Decorated Armor to Collectible Paper: the Beginning of Printed Etching”.
Conference Fragments, Architecture, and Antiquarian Knowledge Organized – 8-9 June 2023

This symposium addresses how different types of information on past architecture were created, collected, translated, and disseminated via various media between the Sixteenth and Eighteenth Centuries.
Boekpresentatie ”Cerca Trova: Leonardo da Vinci e la Battaglia di Anghiari” – 23 mei om 18:00 (Italiaans)

Boekpresentatie ”Cerca Trova: Leonardo da Vinci e la Battaglia di Anghiari” – 23 mei om 18:00 (Italiaans) A partire dagli anni Settanta molte energie sono state spese per comprendere dove fosse ubicata la Battaglia di Anghiari, il perduto dipinto che Leonardo da Vinci realizzò all’inizio del XVI secolo a Firenze, nel Salone dei Cinquecento a […]
Lecture: “Botticelli and the Management of Demand” on May 4, 2023 at 6PM

Michael W. Kwakkelstein | Director (NIKI) has the pleasure to invite you to the lecture “Botticelli and the Management of Demand”, by our scholar-in-residence, Michelle O’Malley, PhD. (Warburg Institute, University of London).
International NIKI conference Museum Catharijneconvent, Utrecht, Friday 31 March 2023

Italy and the Low Countries – Artistic Relations: The Sixteenth Century. Organised by Gert Jan van der Sman (NIKI, Florence)
Symposium ‘Visual Humanisms’ – 20-21 oktober 2022

Op 20 en 21 oktober zal in het NIKI het symposium Visual Humanisms plaatsvinden. Het symposium wordt georganiseerd door Marieke van den Doel (University of Humanistic Studies, Utrecht) en Michael W. Kwakkelstein (NIKI).