Workshop “Flanders in Florence: Architectural Exchanges in Context, 1400-1600” (17 – 18 October 2024)
The workshop brings together scholars from various disciplines to discuss the current state of research on architectural exchanges between the Low Countries and Florence at the time of the Renaissance. Focusing on exchanges from North to South, the aim is to improve our understanding of how the intense commercial, artistic, political and military ties with ‘le Fiandre’ have enriched Florence’s architectural culture.
[In-Person/Online] Conference hosted by NIKI & NYU-Florence, January 17–19, 2025: “Hidden in Plain Sight: Black African Lives and Visual Histories in Early Modern Europe”
How do representations of marginalized bodies challenge dominant narratives in history? What new realities are revealed about the absence and agency of Black Africans by a more global approach to the 14–17th centuries? The international conference Hidden in Plain Sight, co-hosted by the NIKI and NYU-Florence, will explore a range of interrelated themes, drawing from art history, anthropology, African studies, history, musicology, and other fields. By critically re-examining histories of colonialism and slavery, the event seeks to reshape our understanding of disciplinary boundaries and spark new scholarly debates.
Presentazione del libro ‘Baccio Bandinellie le anatomie degli scartafacci’ il 3 luglio 2024, ore 18
Il direttore del NIKI, Michael W. Kwakkelstein, ha il piacere di invitarla alla presentazione del libro ” Baccio Bandinelli e le anatomie degli scartafacci” di dott. Jonathan Schiesaro (NIKI fellow), il 3 luglio alle ore 18.
[In-person/online] workshop NIKI Florence: ”Ecclesia / Iustitia. Spirituality and Criminal Justice in Late Medieval Europe (ca. 1200-1500)”
This workshop aims to further our understanding of how late medieval societies reconciled the partially contradictory ideals and expectations of Ecclesia and Iustitia at a collective and individual level, using perspectives coming from art history, literary studies, history and religious scholarship. Pre-registration is required to guarantee seating or online attendance.
Online/in-person ISI Florence Conference ‘Europa ed Estremo Oriente: relazioni, incontri e conflitti nella prima età moderna’
On March 6-7, our researcher Gert Jan Van Der Sman and our former NIKI fellow Natsuko Kuwabara will participate in the ISI Florence conference “Europa ed Estremo Oriente: relazioni, incontri e conflitti nella prima età moderna”.
Hybrid lecture: “Perugino and the Management of Styles: ‘Andrea d’Assisi’ Reconsidered” on November 7, 2023 at 6PM
On behalf of the Director of the Netherlands Interuniversity Institute for Art History (NIKI), Michael W. Kwakkelstein, we have the pleasure to invite you to the lecture by our scholar-in-residence, Takuma Ito (Associate Professor, Renaissance Art History, Kyushu University, Japan), entitled “Perugino and the Management of Styles: ‘Andrea d’Assisi’ Reconsidered”.
Dutch Alumni Event in Rome & Milan (8-9 November 2023)
The collaborating Dutch universities: Leiden University, Utrecht University and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU Amsterdam), along with the Dutch University Institute for Art History in Florence (NIKI) invite alumni from these universities to attend an evening of academic discussion and networking.
Hybrid lecture: “Christ’s Petrified Blood – Heliotrope Cameos in Early Modern Europe and Beyond” on October 5, 2023 at 6PM
This lecture explores the functions, iconography, and symbolic meanings of heliotrope in light of current discourses on the materiality of stones in early modern Europe – and beyond.
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.
