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