Le colloque international « Failure : Understanding Art as Process, 1150–1750 » est organisé par Ariella Minden, Alessandro Nova et Luca Palozzi. Il se déroulera les 5 et 6 novembre uniquement en ligne sur la plateforme Zoom. L’inscription est obligatoire et se fait via le site de la conférence.
Programme
Thursday, 5 November
14:00 Ariella Minden, Alessandro Nova, Luca Palozzi – Welcome and Introduction
Failure (and Success) – Chair: Alessandro Nova
- 14:30 Sefy Hendler (Tel Aviv University) : Fallire, errore, biasmo : towards a typology of early modern artistic failures
- 15:10 Janis Bell (Independent Scholar) : Corrected mistakes : Printing Leonardo in Paris
- 15:50 Gerd Blum (Kunstakademie Münster) : Upside Down : The Fragment of a Failed Monument Presented as a Masterpiece of Success – Michelangelo’s Moses and His Inverted Tablets in Image and Text, 1513–1568
Break
Failing and Repairing – Chair : Luca Palozzi
- 16:50 Sarah M. Guérin (University of Pennsylvania) : Reaching for the stars : Failed Enamels, c. 1300
- 17:30 Giampaolo Ermini (Independent Scholar) : «Attonito, et totalmente abandonato in se medesimo». Fallimenti tra i fonditori di campane (Italia, secoli XIII-XVI)
- 18:10 Rachel E. Boyd (Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America at Columbia University) : Waste not, want not : Repairing Renaissance glazed terracotta
- 18:40 Discussion
Friday, 6 November
Drawing, Failing, and Learning – Chair : Ariella Minden
- 11:30 Nino Nanobashvili (Bayrische Akademie der Wissenschaften) : The Rise and Fall of Anatomy : Alessandro Allori’s Unfinished Drawing Manual and his Iterative Struggles with It
- 12:10 Henrike Scholten (Utrecht University) : Hendrick van Beaumont : Learning to draw outside the studio
Lunch Break
Planning and Failing – Chair : Dario Donetti
- 14:00 Cara Rachele (ETH Zurich) : Failure and Masterpiece : Bramante’s Cracks at Saint Peter’s Basilica
- 14:40 Caroline Murphy (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) : Diagnosing Disorder : Girolamo di Pace da Prato’s “Memoriale”
(1558) and Aqueous Expertise in the Tuscan Landscape
Break
Trial and Error – Chair : Marco Mascolo
- 15:40 Stephanie S. Dickey (Queen’s University) : Rembrandt’s Failure as a Printmaker
- 16:20 Tianna Uchacz (Texas A&M University) : Recipes for Failure : Experimenting, Repairing, and Quitting in Renaissance Toulouse
Break
Failure : Supports, Surface and Colour – Chair : Katharine Stahlbuhk
- 17:20 Hanna Baro (Universität Siegen) : Successful Failures ? Experimenting with Textile Paint Supports around 1500
- 18:00 Christopher Nygren (University of Pittsburgh) : Sedimented Failures : Painting on Stone and the Economy of Failure in Early Modern Italy
- 18:40 Marco Collareta (Università di Pisa) : Fortuna e sfortuna del colore nella scultura invetriata del Rinascimento
- 19:20 Discussion and Final Remarks