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Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institute for Art History
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Research institute for art history and architecture, part of @maxplanck.de
📍 Rome, Italy
📢 Call for Applications – Postdoctoral Fellowship in our Lise Meitner Group “Decay, Loss, and Conservation in Art History”. Duration of up to 12 months, starting in the spring of 2026.
📍 Rome-based
⏳ January 15, 2026, 12:00 CEST
🔗 Read the full call here: www.biblhertz.it/3741351/2511...
November 26, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Yesterday we closed Chi esce entra – A Tribute Exhibition to a Disappearing Building. We thank the artists, staff & the 18,000+ visitors who shaped this unique project. The building will soon change again, but this chapter lives on in the catalog & in an upcoming online exhibition. Stay tuned 👀
November 24, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Reposted by Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institute for Art History
📷PHAROS launches Artresearch.net, a groundbreaking new platform for exploring works of art and architecture. Funded by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Bibliotheca Hertziana (@bhmpi.bsky.social), and the National Endowment for the Humanities (@nehgov.bsky.social).
November 19, 2025 at 4:50 PM
📚 Exhibition catalog: “Chi esce entra. A Tribute Exhibition to a Disappearing Building”, edited by Simon Würsten Marin. With contributions by Tristan Weddigen, Simon Würsten Marin, Margherita Fratarcangeli, He Shen 何珅 and photographs by Enrico Fontolan.
🛒 www.dariocimorellieditore.it/libro/979125...
November 17, 2025 at 4:24 PM
📢 Nuova mostra di ricerca:

THIS IS NOT THE ROME I EXPECTED TO SEE
Narrazioni, sguardi e itinerari nelle guide di Roma e dintorni (1763–1925)

A cura di Viviana Costagliola, Vincenzo Moschetti, Fabrizio Toppetti

📅12.11.2025–31.01.2026
🥂Vernissage: 11.11.2025, ore 18:30

🔗 tinyurl.com/299wu7zk
November 10, 2025 at 6:59 PM
❗❕Due to popular demand the exhibition Chi esce entra. A Tribute Exhibition to a Disappearing Building, curated by Simon Würsten Marin, has been extended until Nov 23!

🗓️Open Wed–Fri, 16:00–20:00
➕Extended hours on Sat & Sun, 14:00–20:00
📍Via Gregoriana 9, Rome
🔗 www.biblhertz.it/chi-esce-entra
November 7, 2025 at 5:43 PM
📢 Call for Applications: Field School 2026 📢
Byzantium – Constantinople – Istanbul. Body and Infrastructure of a Heterogeneous Metropolis
Organized by Tanja Michalsky and Anna Magnago Lampugnani
📅 18–24 May 2026
⏳ 15 December 2025
🔗 www.biblhertz.it/3736648/251105_Studienkurs-Istanbul
November 6, 2025 at 4:18 PM
We are excited to announce that PHAROS: The International Association of Photo Archives just launched a new platform for researching artworks and architecture using AI and extensive metadata curated by experts.
👉 Access the database at artresearch.net
artresearch.net
Artresearch.net
November 3, 2025 at 5:15 PM
🇺🇦This week we welcome 12 Ukrainian art historians for the Methodology Seminars for Art History in Ukraine: Epistemologies, Agencies, and Margins. During their stay they present their work-in-progress and take part in a series of intense workshops with renowned scholars. Buon lavoro!
October 29, 2025 at 5:26 PM
❕Join us TOMORROW afternoon for the presentation of the exhibition catalog of CHI ESCE ENTRA, followed by a panel discussion "Impossible Architecture: On Restoring Buildings and Cultural Memory".
🗓️Oct. 30, 5 PM
📍via Gregoriana 22
⚠️ Registration required
🔗 Event page: www.biblhertz.it/events/43540...
Chi esce entra Catalog Presentation and Panel Discussion “Impossible Architecture: On Restoring Buildings and Cultural Memory”
Presentation of the catalog of the exhibition Chi esce entra, followed by a panel discussion with Anna Puigjaner (ETH Zurich), Facundo Revuelta (University of Buenos Aires), Yousef Taha يوسف طه (RIWAQ...
www.biblhertz.it
October 29, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Reposted by Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institute for Art History
📅 30 - 31 October 2025
📍 Florence & Online

Conference org. by the the Max Planck Heritage Network (Hannah Baader, Francesca Borgo, Christoph Brumann, Mark Hudson, Lisa Onaga).
➡️ t1p.de/y66h9

@bhmpi.bsky.social @mpiwg.bsky.social @maxplanck.de

📷 Kyoto, Gion Matsuri (祇園祭). © Christoph Brumann.
October 23, 2025 at 1:50 PM
📢 Call for Applications
The Lise Meitner Group “Decay, Loss, and Conservation in Art History” invites applications for a Predoctoral Fellowship (up to 12 months), starting in the spring of 2026.

📍 Rome-based
⏳ January 15, 2026, 12:00 CEST
🔗 To learn more & apply: www.biblhertz.it/3730578/2510...
Predoctoral Fellow (M/F/D)Lise Meitner Group “Decay, Loss, and Conservation in Art History”
www.biblhertz.it
October 22, 2025 at 3:50 PM
The exhibition "Disegnare per capire: Franz Graf Wolff-Metternich e la genesi della nuova Basilica di San Pietro. Ipotesi e ricostruzioni (1953–1978)” is on show in Palazzo Zuccari until 31 March 2026, from Monday to Friday (except holidays) from 9:30 am – 6:30 pm.
ℹ️ www.biblhertz.it/de/mostra-me...
October 16, 2025 at 4:43 PM
🗺️📍🇹🇷 The latest field seminar of the Department Michalsky led scholars on an exploration of Istanbul's most significant monuments. Aptly named “Byzantion–Constantinople–Istanbul” the trip focused on understanding the many historical and cultural layers that shape the city on the Bosphorus.
October 13, 2025 at 5:40 PM
A huge thank you to artists, guests & staff for an incredible opening night of CHI ESCE ENTRA, curated by Simon Würsten Marin with the assistance of Silvia Carletti.

🔗 Further information on guided tours, access and the catalogue: www.biblhertz.it/chi-esce-ent...
October 12, 2025 at 11:42 AM
📚NEW PUBLICATION📚

Tod A. Marder, “Bernini’s Architectural Drawings – An Extended Edition of Brauer and Wittkower’s Catalogue of 1931” (Römische Forschungen der Bibliotheca Hertziana, vol. 38)

🔗 www.biblhertz.it/en/pub/roemi...
October 7, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Chi esce entra. A Tribute Exhibition to a Disappearing Building
Curated by Simon Würsten Marin

🗓️ October 10th – November 9th, 2025
📍 Via Gregoriana 9, Rome
🥂 Vernissage: October 9th, 6 pm (registration mandatory)

🔗 More info and full program: tinyurl.com/ex2arz3x
October 2, 2025 at 6:03 PM
New Research Exhibition: “Disegnare per capire: Franz Graf Wolff-Metternich e la genesi della nuova Basilica di San Pietro. Ipotesi e ricostruzioni (1953-1978)”, curated by Marta Guaglianone, Golo Maurer and Vitale Zanchettin.
🗓️ Vernissage: 8 Oct., 6:00 pm
🔗 www.biblhertz.it/de/mostra-me...
October 1, 2025 at 5:17 PM
📢 CfP
EAUH Conference 2026 – City Networks in Europe and Beyond
📍 Barcelona 📅 Sept. 2–5, 2026

Session: Urban Histories in Motion. Cartographic, Artistic, and Historiographical Representations of the City within Early Modern Intellectual Networks

⏳ Oct. 22, 2025.
🔗 www.biblhertz.it/en/opportuni...
September 30, 2025 at 10:23 AM
📅 SAVE THE DATE: EXHIBITION OPENING

We are pleased to announce Chi esce entra. A Tribute Exhibition to a Disappearing Bilduing, a site-specific and one-time exhibition curated by Simon Würsten Marin.

🗓️ October 9th, 18:00
📍 Via Gregoriana 9
🔗 More info and full program: tinyurl.com/ex2arz3x
September 29, 2025 at 5:09 PM
WORKSHOP
🎨🧠Art and Labour in the Age of AI
Join us next Monday for a reflection on artificial intelligence and its role in the reframing of artistic and non-artistic labour.
📍 Villino Stroganoff, Rome & streaming online
🗓️ Sept 29 | ⏰ 10:00–17:00
🔗 Full program & streaming link: tinyurl.com/mvk2vbsn
September 25, 2025 at 6:04 PM
✨ As our research exhibition "Rework, Retouch, Care: Case Studies from the Hertziana Collection" closes, its story continues online
🔗 The online show invites you to revisit the works and explore the many layers of revision, reworking, and care they have undergone: galerie.biblhertz.it/en/rework/
September 23, 2025 at 2:01 PM
📚 "Pablo Echaurren. Art for the Many"
📍 Museo del Novecento, Milano
🗓️ 1 ottobre 2025, ore 18:00
🎟️ Ingresso libero

Presentazione del volume dedicato all’artista-attivista Pablo Echaurren con Raffaella Perna, Martina Caruso e Cristina Casero.

🔗 www.silvanaeditoriale.it/agenda/1538/...
September 19, 2025 at 1:13 PM
📚NEUERSCHEINUNG📚

Heinrich Wölfflin
Die Kunst Albrecht Dürers (1905)
Herausgegeben von Tristan Weddigen, Oskar Bätschmann, Joris van Gastel
Heinrich Wölfflin – Gesammelte Werke, Schriften, Bd. 6

🔗 www.biblhertz.it/de/pub/woelf...
🛒 schwabe.ch/heinrich-woe...
September 11, 2025 at 8:00 PM
From the beach back to the books 📖 📚
Three more weeks to finalize your articles for volume 49 (2026) of the Römisches Jahrbuch der Bibliotheca Hertziana!
⌛We're looking forward to your submissions by September 30, 2025!
🔗 www.biblhertz.it/de/opportuni...
September 11, 2025 at 11:53 AM