International Colloquium
Revising the Renaissance Concept: Global Collections as a Means to a New Definition
2-4 November 2023
Days 2-3 | Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa - Auditorium III (Room A201)
Day 4 | Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga & Museu Medeiros e Almeida
Organisers | Andrea M. Gáldy (LMU München) & Luís U. Afonso (University of Lisbon)
Organisation | ARTIS - Institute of Art History, Centre for History of the University of Lisbon & Erasmus Mundus International Master in Managing Art & Cultural Heritage in Global Markets
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This event has received support from FLAD - Luso-American Development Foundation
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International Colloquium
Revising the Renaissance Concept: Global Collections as a Means to a New Definition
Venue: School of Arts and Humanities, University of Lisbon (Days 2 and 3); Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga e Museu Medeiros e Almeida (Day 4)
Date: 2-4 November 2023
Today, Giorgio Vasari's concept of a "Florentine Renaissance" as interpreted by Burckhardt is increasingly considered old-fashioned. According to modern research, this "Renaissance" is no longer seen as a unique phenomenon anchored exclusively in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Italy and Italian culture. The art and culture of the period can be studied for example as part of a series of renaissances starting in Late Antiquity or in the Carolingian Age, as well as within an international, even global context. As the idea of "Renaissance" is being challenged, renaissance collections, their contents and biographies also come under review.
Although renaissance collections may frequently have conformed to a canon of antiquities in combination with early modern Italian art, they included many categories of objects from all over the world. Close examination of collections shows that objects, concepts, categories and standards were traded and exchanged between collectors, scholars and courts across Europe. A more chronologically and geographically inclusive view of renaissance collections therefore likely has an impact on our understanding and definition of the renaissance period.
This conference will bring together scholars interested in international collections and global networks of collectors during the early modern era.
Organisers: Andrea M. Gáldy (LMU München) & Luís U. Afonso (University of Lisbon)
Organisation: ARTIS - Institute of Art History, Centre for History of the University of Lisbon & Erasmus Mundus International Master in Managing Art & Cultural Heritage in Global Markets
Colóquio Internacional
Revendo o Conceito de Renascença: Colecções Globais como um Meio para uma Nova Definição
Lugar: Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa (Dia 2 e 3); Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga e Museu Medeiros e Almeida (Dia 4)
Data: 2-4 de Novembro de 2023
Hoje, o conceito de Giorgio Vasari de um "Renascimento florentino" como interpretado por Burckhardt é cada vez mais considerado antiquado. De acordo com a pesquisa atual, este "Renascimento" não é mais encarado como um fenômeno único ancorado exclusivamente na Itália dos séculos XV e XVI e na cultura italiana. A arte e a cultura do período podem ser estudadas, por exemplo, como parte de uma série de renascimentos começando na Antiguidade Tardia ou na Era Carolíngia, bem como dentro de um contexto internacional, até mesmo global. Assim como a ideia de "Renascença" está a ser revista, o mesmo sucede com a ideia de coleções renascentistas, com os seus conteúdos e biografias.
Embora as coleções renascentistas possam frequentemente ter se conformado a um cânone de antiguidades em combinação com a arte italiana contemporânea, elas incluíam muitas categorias de objetos de todo o mundo. Uma análise atenta das coleções mostra que objetos, conceitos, categorias e padrões foram negociados e trocados entre colecionadores, estudiosos e cortes de toda a Europa. Uma visão mais inclusiva em termos cronológicos e geográficos das coleções renascentistas, terá um impacto sobre a nossa compreensão e definição do período renascentista.
Esta conferência reunirá investigadores interessados em coleções internacionais e redes globais de colecionadores durante o início da idade moderna.
Organizadores: Andrea M. Gáldy (LMU München) & Luís U. Afonso (Universidade de Lisboa)
Organização: ARTIS - Instituto de História da Arte, Centro de História da Universidade de Lisboa & Erasmus Mundus International Master in Managing Art & Cultural Heritage in Global Markets
PROGRAMME / PROGRAMA
Thursday, 2 November
10.00 | Welcome
Morning Session
10.15 – 11.15 | Concept
Towards a heterogeneous Renaissance: empiricisms, hybridizations, and some orthodoxies
Luís Urbano Afonso (Universidade de Lisboa)
Global, European, regional: was the Renaissance really Florentine?
Andrea M. Gáldy (LMU München)
11.15 – 11.30 | Coffee Break
11.30 – 12.30 | Cartography
Amid cartography and travel literature: a comparative study of cultural products of the modern era
Nathália Tavares (Universidade de Lisboa)
Artifex ars cartographica: between science and imagination – complicities and partnerships in the imagetic construction of the world
Vasco Medeiros (Universidade de Lisboa)
Lunch break 12.30 – 14.30
Afternoon Session
14.30 – 16.30 | Asia Collections Network Session
Global (im)materiality on display: an imaginary collection of Francesco Carletti’s (in)tangible cultural world
Elisabetta Colla (Universidade de Lisboa)
Patterns of gifting non-European goods within the House of Habsburg, 1550‒1620
Joanna Cieminska (Universidade Nova de Lisboa)
Chinese wonders in the Medici collections of Renaissance Florence: a re-interpretation
Iside Carbone (Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland)
The Ottoman Sultan Mehmet II (1432-1481) as a collector of Italian art
Roberta Marin (Khalili Collection of Islamic Art)
Tea and Discussion
Friday, 3 November
Morning Session
10.00 – 11.00 | Collectors
Sculpture collections in the Rome of Pope Paul III. What did Francisco learn?
Fernando Grilo (Universidade de Lisboa)
A Renaissance collection? The possessions of the 5th duke of Bragança (Portugal, 1563)
Nuno Senos (Universidade Nova de Lisboa)
Coffee Break 11.00 – 11.30
12.00 – 13.00 | Non-European Provenances
The African King in paintings of “The Adoration” from the Habsburg empire
Peter Mark (‘emeritus’ Wesleyan University)
Looting or collecting in Malacca? The cases of Rui de Brito and Jorge de Brito (1511-1517)
Jorge Santos Alves (Universidade Católica Portuguesa)
Lunch Break 13.00 – 15.00
Afternoon Session
15.00 – 16.00 | Animals as Collecting Objects
Beastly networking: collecting exotic fauna at the Medici court, Florence
Angelica Groom (Brighton University),
‘The art itself is nature.’ (The Winter’s Tale, Act IV, scene iv): The Rhinoceros in Ming China and Renaissance Europe.
Nick Pearce and Wu Yunong (University of Glasgow)
Tea break 16.00 – 16.30
16.30 – 17.30 | Non-European Objects in European Collections
Feather headdresses, raffia cloths and Arras tapestries in an Andalusian ducal house:
rethinking Iberian Renaissance collections through D. Juan de Guzmán`s sumptuary goods
René Lommez Gomes (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais)
Afro-Portuguese Ivories in European aristocratic collections: use and meanings
Leonor Amaral (São Roque - Antiguidades & Galeria de Arte)
Keynote/wrap up followed by final discussion, 18.00 – 19.00
Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann (Princeton University)
Saturday, 4 November
Visits morning and afternoon
(Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga & Museu Medeiros e Almeida)
Image: Martin Behaim, Erdapfel (1490-1492). Germanischen Nationalmuseum.
Photo: © Alexander Franke (Ossiostborn): tinyurl.com/4sarcpdj. Used under CC BY-SA 2.0 de.
