New Course 25 March – 7 April 2025: From Leonardo to Steno Art, science and religion in Tuscany (1500-1700)
In this pioneering course, we will explore previously unexplored territory. How did late-renaissance scientists and artists navigate between biblical and ancient texts, and their own observations? How did they negotiate between received scholarly and pictorial traditions and their own – often conflicting – observations?
New Course 25 March – 7 April 2025: From Leonardo to Steno Art, science and religion in Tuscany (1500-1700)
In this pioneering course, we will explore previously unexplored territory. How did late-renaissance scientists and artists navigate between biblical and ancient texts, and their own observations? How did they negotiate between received scholarly and pictorial traditions and their own – often conflicting – observations?
OSK-Niki Winter School: Framing the Fragment: (Un)finished histories of Florence (January 3-12, 2025)
This one-week course offers an unconventional approach to the study of Florentine art history. We will turn a blind eye to the usual art historical suspects, and instead focus on the incomplete, neglected, and non-canonical artefacts from Medieval times and the Renaissance to Modernist art and architecture in Florence.
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 (21 July – 1 August 2025)
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 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).
Utrecht Summer School 2024: The Art of Renaissance in Florence and Rome (next edition July 4-19, 2025)
Florence, originally founded by the Romans, was governed by the Medici family for centuries. Most of them had a passionate interest in painting, sculpture, architecture, and literature. Still Florence keeps an exceptional artistic heritage, which is marvelous evidence of its aged culture. This course offers students the opportunity to study the works of art from the Renaissance period, while staying in Florence.
