Vittoriano
From May 24-27, the VIVE - Vittoriano and Palazzo Venezia is organizing and hosting with the Bibliotheca Hertziana - Max Planck Institute for Art History a major international conference, "The Notion of Renaissance, Between History and Myth. Origins, Transformations, New-Perspectives” curated by Edith Gabrielli (VIVE - Vittoriano and Palazzo Venezia), Massimiliano Rossi (University of Salento) and Tristan Weddigen (Bibliotheca Hertziana).
The conference will explore the many ways the concept of the Renaissance has been viewed over the centuries, with a focus on the key figures, artistic practices and paradigms that have helped keep it alive for five hundred years.
Prefigured by the Italian humanists and developed to Giorgio Vasari's historiographic design (1550 and 1568), the Renaissance concept began to be codified in the 18th century and was consolidated in the 19th. Since then, it has undergone a substantial number of reinterpretations, criticisms and reappraisals.
More than 40 Italian and international scholars will bring their contributions and offer their reflections, ranging from the role of antiquity and the medieval past in the Renaissance era to case studies concerning works, artists, techniques and materials, exploring the multiple revisitations/fluctuations of the Renaissance concept from the 17th century to the contemporary era and the posthuman, amid celebrations, resistances and deconstructions.
