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Ang Li @angli-caa25.bsky.social · 8d

CfP for a panel on the polemic of illusion and materiality in the transcultural context for the upcoming AAH annual conference at Cambridge. This panel will be convened by me and Sumi from Kyoto University: forarthistory.org.uk/questioning-...

Questioning the Illusion/Materiality Polemics in a Transcultural Art History - For Art History

Ever since the establishment of the perspectival system in Western art, pictorial illusion has been pitted against materiality. Seminal works such as Erwin Panofsky’s Perspective as Symbolic Form and Hubert Damisch’s A Theory of /Cloud/ have helped to solidify this dichotomy. Panofsky’s Eurocentric perspective may have prevented him from engaging with non-Western examples, while Damisch’s […]

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Ang Li @angli-caa25.bsky.social · 8d

CfP for a panel on the polemic of illusion and materiality in the transcultural context for the upcoming AAH annual conference at Cambridge. This panel will be convened by me and Sumi from Kyoto University: forarthistory.org.uk/questioning-...

Questioning the Illusion/Materiality Polemics in a Transcultural Art History - For Art History

Ever since the establishment of the perspectival system in Western art, pictorial illusion has been pitted against materiality. Seminal works such as Erwin Panofsky’s Perspective as Symbolic Form and Hubert Damisch’s A Theory of /Cloud/ have helped to solidify this dichotomy. Panofsky’s Eurocentric perspective may have prevented him from engaging with non-Western examples, while Damisch’s […]

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ArtHist @arthist-net.bsky.social · 9d

ANN: Oxford Medieval Visual Culture Seminar (Oxford, 30 Oct - 4 Dec 25)

https://arthist.net/archive/50739

Oxford Medieval Visual Culture Seminar (Oxford, 30 Oct - 4 Dec 25)

Nancy Thebaut. St Catherine's College, Oxford

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ArtHist @arthist-net.bsky.social · 27d

CFP: RACAR Special Issue: Dead Matter and Animated Materials in Art

https://arthist.net/archive/50540

RACAR Special Issue: Dead Matter and Animated Materials in Art

Itay Sapir. Eingabeschluss : 25.11.2025

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ArtHist @arthist-net.bsky.social · 22d

CFP: The Medici and the Dominicans (Florence, 30 Jan 26)

https://arthist.net/archive/50619

The Medici and the Dominicans (Florence, 30 Jan 26)

The Medici Archive Project. Medici Archive Project, Palazzo Alberti, Florence, 30.01.2026, Eingabeschluss : 15.11.2025

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Jesse "Pecke in the Crowne" Locker @jessemlocker.bsky.social · 22d

First ever exhibition dedicated to the cryptic Flemish (or Dutch?) painter Matthias Stom opens in Brescia Sept. 18.

Matthias Stom. Un caravaggesco nelle collezioni lombarde

Museionline Blog - Il blog di Musei Italiani.

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Susan Klaiber @susanklaiber.bsky.social · 28d

Coming later this month: our Bernini's Architectural Drawings, edited by Tod Marder.

It's really two books in one: a translation (mine) and historiographic edition of Brauer & Wittkower's 1931 study, and a modern treatment of Bernini's architectural drawings.

www.hirmerverlag.de/de/titel-32-...

View of book covers for two-volume set of Bernini's Architectural Drawings, edited by Tod A. Marder and published by Hirmer on behalf of the Bibliotheca Hertziana. Volume 1 (visible) has ink and red chalk drawing for the crowning feature of the Baldacchino in St. Peter's.

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Karl Galle @karlgalle.bsky.social · Aug 27

Applications are open for the Renaissance Society of America's short-term research fellowships, including many that give preference to contingent faculty and independent scholars -- apply by September 16th, applicants must be @rsaorg.bsky.social members: www.rsa.org/general/cust... #earlymodern

RSA Fellowships - Renaissance Society of America

New requirement: Beginning with the current cycle, applicants must have been an RSA member for at least 12 months immediately prior to application, in order to be eligible. This change, announced in mid-2024, consolidates the funding available for fellowships while recognizing that the number of applicants is only a portion of the membership. You can review your dues payments by signing in to the RSA website and going to Membership Info under the My Profile tab. It indicates the date through which your membership is current and you will see a list of all dues payments. If you are still unsure about your eligibility after checking your membership payments in your RSA profile, please contact [email protected].

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Ang Li @angli-caa25.bsky.social · Aug 28

My new post is out!

From the Ground Up: the Structure of Dunhuang Frescoes

One of my main research questions is about the structure of paintings. For instance, the so-called figure and ground problem is a problem about ‘structure’. Structure can be built and d…

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Ang Li @angli-caa25.bsky.social · Aug 21

If my memory doesn't fail me, I still remember seeing a Savoldo fresco in Bresia.

Jesse "Pecke in the Crowne" Locker @jessemlocker.bsky.social · Aug 21

Giovanni Girolamo Savoldo, St Matthew and the Angel, c. 1534, Oil on canvas, 93 x 125 cm (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)

"Saint Matthew shares a spellbound gaze with an angel who inspires him to write his gospel. Behind are two scenes from the saint’s life: on the right he receives hospitality at the court of the queen of Ethiopia, while the event on the left is less clear. The various sources of light in the painting suggest that this was one of the works described by the biographer Giorgio Vasari as “nocturnes, with fires,” which Savoldo painted around 1534 for the head of the Milanese mint." https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/437630

Ang Li @angli-caa25.bsky.social · Aug 19

Found some interesting stuff in the Mogao Caves. How can the absence of ground colour solidify the preservation of the foreground figures? Normally, the original colour of the figures would darken over time. Due to the flow of the air through the plain wall, the original colour remains.

Ang Li @angli-caa25.bsky.social · Aug 15

I'm now in Dunhuang now! The climate is drier and warmer than Hangzhou. I will go to see some caves tomorrow. Looking forward to my three-day trip.

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Craig Clunas @craigclunas.bsky.social · Jul 3

'Echoes of Great Brightness: The Ming Dynasty and Beyond' In Oxford, 16-17 September. Booking now open. I'm honoured (my goodness, I really am, so grateful to this amazing roster of colleagues)
web.cvent.com/event/a4ff13...

Echoes of Great Brightness: The Ming Dynasty and Beyond.

An International Conference in Honour of Craig Clunas.

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · Jul 18

‘Humanists knew that they were imitating the ancients when they sat and talked in libraries. But they knew little about what these lost collections looked like or included.’

Anthony Grafton on Renaissance libraries: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Anthony Grafton · No Cheese Please: The First Bibliophiles

The library made possible a new kind of intellectual life. Machiavelli, when he’d been exiled from Florence, described...

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Ang Li @angli-caa25.bsky.social · Jul 15

Tiepolo should draw more scholarly attention! I recently translated an article by Damian Dombrowski into Chinese, which has been published by meishu guancha (art observation).

Andrew Ballantyne @asquins.bsky.social · Jul 12

Tiepolo at Würzburg.

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ArtHist @arthist-net.bsky.social · Jul 1

TOC: Artibus et Historiae no. 90 (XLV), 2024

https://arthist.net/archive/49611

Artibus et Historiae no. 90 (XLV), 2024

Joanna Wolanska, IRSA. artibusethistoriae.org/issue91.html

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Liu Jipiao Family @liujipiaofamily.bsky.social · Jun 25

It's been a long road since our first letter! Your article was the first we discovered! You sent me to Nancy Steinhardt who introduced us to Jeff Cody who became a dear family friend. He lectured on LJP in Paris! And this year LJP had his first solo exhibit at the CAA, the school he cofounded!

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Marc Gilbert @marcgilbert.bsky.social · Jun 19

The Robert van Gulik Archive at Leiden University Libraries is now fully described and accessible online: edu.nl/d7p3m

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ArtHist @arthist-net.bsky.social · Jun 6

ANN: Aby Warburg an the Afterlife of Antiquity (online, 7 Jul-18 Aug 25)

https://arthist.net/archive/49437

Aby Warburg an the Afterlife of Antiquity (online, 7 Jul-18 Aug 25)

Fabio Tononi, NOVA University of Lisbon. Online / Luís Krus Centre – Lifelong Learning, Faculty of Social and Human Sciences (FCSH), NOVA University of Lisbon.., 07.07.–18.08.2025, Deadline/Anmeldeschluss: 23.06.2025

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ArtHist @arthist-net.bsky.social · Jun 10

CFP: AAH Conference: Call for Sessions (Cambridge, 8-10 Apr 26)

https://arthist.net/archive/49482

AAH Conference: Call for Sessions (Cambridge, 8-10 Apr 26)

Christina Bradstreet, Association for Art History. University of Cambridge, 08.–10.04.2026, Eingabeschluss : 01.07.2025

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Jesse "Pecke in the Crowne" Locker @jessemlocker.bsky.social · May 28

Artemisia Gentileschi's "Susanna and the Elders," recently rediscovered and restored, on display at the Palace of Holyroodhouse in Edinburgh www.rct.uk/event/artemi...

Artemisia Gentileschi's Susanna and the Elders under restoration

Artemisia Gentileschi's Susanna and the Elders installed in the Palace of Holyroodhouse

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The Warburg Institute @warburginstitute.bsky.social · May 28

Renaissance Lives: Memling and the Merchants

Join Mitzi Kirkland-Ives & Rembrandt Duits for a round table on the merchant-class audiences of Hans Memling’s work in 15th-century Bruges.

Online | 29 May, 5:30–7pm (UK)

Free – book now: warburg.sas.ac.uk/events/renai... ‪@reaktionbooks.bsky.social‬

Renaissance Lives - 'Memling and the Merchants'

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Allison MacDuffee @studiousgal.bsky.social · May 10

I read that lovely book, _Taste and the Antique_, some years ago. What a rabbit hole! And here, to celebrate a new edition, a call for papers.⬇️

The Institute of Classical Studies @ics.bsky.social · May 10

DEADLINE THURSDAY 15 MAY: CALL FOR PAPERS

The Future of the Antique: Interpreting the Sculptural Canon. An interdisciplinary conference celebrating the new edition of Francis Haskell & Nicholas Penny’s Taste and the Antique. Please submit your title and abstract 200 words max: bit.ly/3RSAwoD

CALL FOR PAPERS: The Future of the Antique: Interpreting the Sculptural Canon

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Leonardo da Vinci Society @leonardosociety.bsky.social · Apr 22

Please consider joining us for the Leonardo da Vinci Society’s Annual Lecture, by Dr Francesca Borgo, on ‘Signature Style: Leonardo da Vinci and Mirror Writing’, on 21 May, 5:30pm, at The Courtauld Institute, Vernon Square, London. RSVP here: www.leonardodavincisociety.org.uk/event-detail...

2025 Annual Lecture | Mysite

Dr Francesca Borgo will deliver the 2025 Annual Lecture on the subject 'Signature Style: Leonardo da Vinci and Mirror Writing'. The lecture will be followed by a reception. Please RSVP.

www.leonardodavincisociety.org.uk

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The Warburg Institute @warburginstitute.bsky.social · Apr 25

🌟 Temperance – A Card of Balance, Harmony, and Moderation 🌟

Temperance from the Tarot de Marseille Gassmann deck (c.1865). Representing balance, patience, and the art of integration, this card calls us to approach life thoughtfully, with harmony and moderation.

#Temperance #TarotExhibition #Tarot

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