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: “The Last Days of the Virgin Mary in Medieval Art” on March 5, 2024 at 6PM
The theme of the Last Days of the Virgin was a frequent subject of pictorial representation in the Mediterranean area from the ninth century to the end of the fifteenth century, despite the absence of any canonical evidence for Mary’s death and Assumption.
Internationaal scholar-in-residence programma
Het NIKI Scholar-in-residence programma biedt senior geesteswetenschappers die buiten Nederland werken de mogelijkheid om een onderzoeksverblijf van maximaal drie maanden in Florence door te brengen, als voorname gast van de stimulerende werkomgeving van het Nederlands Interuniversitair Instituut voor Kunstgeschiedenis (NIKI).
Minor Italian Art & History in Rome (KNIR) and Florence (NIKI) in 2024-2025
This Minor program offers the opportunity of working with a large variety of methodologies in order to understand present-day Italy through its historical developments in a profoundly cross-disciplinary context.
Summer Course Leonardo | The tension between theory & practice (5 – 16 August 2024)
An in-depth study of the drawings, paintings, and writings of Leonardo da Vinci (Vinci 1452-Amboise, France 1519). This course seeks to define the relationship between Leonardo’s development as a painter and his scientific research.
NWIB Summer School 2024 (Ba): The birth of the modern anatomical illustration
Apply for the NWIB Summer School at the NIKI (July 22 – August 2, 2024) which is devoted to “The birth of the modern anatomical illustration”.
NWIB Visiting Professors Programme – Call 2024/2025
The NWIB Visiting Professors Programme offers assistant professors, associate professors and full professors at participating universities (see below) a unique opportunity to work undisturbed in an inspiring and stimulating environment.
Hybrid conference ”Johannes Stradanus (1523-1605): A Flemish Artist in Florence in the Age of Exploration” on 30 November – 1 December 2023
On the occasion of the exhibition ”Giovanni Stradano. Le più strane e belle invenzioni del mondo”, curated by Alessandra Baroni and held at Palazzo Vecchio in Florence (17 November 2023-18 February 2024), the Netherlands Interuniversity Institute for Art History (NIKI) organises an international conference on Johannes Stradanus and on the many ways in which the artist from Bruges,“with the flowers of his art, made Florence appear even more beautiful” (Van Mander).
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.