Nova Reperta
Sixteenth Century Society and Conference
2009 Annual Meeting
Genf
28.-30. Mai 2009
Organisatoren:
Christine Göttler, Universität Bern
Tristan Weddigen, Universität Zürich
Nova Reperta I:
Transformations, Piracies, and Unexpected Encounters
Freitag 29. Mai 2009, 10:00-11:30
Christine Göttler (Universität Bern)
Sektionsleitung
- NORBERTO GRAMACCINI (Universität Bern)
Marcantonio Raimondi’s Life of the Virgin after Dürer - ANDREW MORALL (Bard Graduate Center)
The Idea of Metamorphosis in the Art and Craft of Sixteenth-Century Northern Europe - LAURA GIORLA (Université de Fribourg)
Théodore de Bry’s Les Grands Voyages: The Representation of the Other in the European Imagination at the Beginning of the Modern Age
Nova Reperta II:
Invention, Imagination, and Discernment in the Early Modern
World
Lucas Burkart (Universität Luzern)
Sektionsleitung und Kommentar
- TRISTAN WEDDIGEN (Universität Zürich)
Silkworms vs. Spiders: New and Old Myths about the Origins of Textiles in Early Modern European Art -
CHRISTINE GÖTTLER (Universität Bern)
Antwerp’s Nova Reperta: The Jesuits, Peter Paul Rubens, and the Portuguese Alchemist Manuel Ximenes -
TINA ASMUSSEN (Universität Luzern)
Selling by Experiment - Athanasius Kircher and the Promotion of Knowledge