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Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut @khiflorenz.bsky.social · 12h

📅 15 October, 3.00pm
📍 Florence & online

It’s a Match!
Jiangtao Harry Gu and Kylie Thomas on Resistant Objects

Organized by Mimi Cheng and the Lise Meitner Group “Coded Objects”.

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Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut @khiflorenz.bsky.social · 1d

📅 14 - 16 October
📍 Buenos Aires

3° Congreso internacional sobre cultura visual iberoamericana (siglos XVI a XIX)

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📷 Anónimo, Conquista y reducción de los indios infieles de las montañas de Paraca y Pantasma, 1675 - 1700, Museo del Prado, Madrid.

Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut @khiflorenz.bsky.social · 2d

Join us tomorrow in Florence for the the third edition of the event series “The Making Of" with Elia Nurvista.

Organized by Mimi Cheng and the Lise Meitner Group “Coded Objects”.

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The Making Of: Stories Through Hot Wax with Elia Nurvista

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Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut @khiflorenz.bsky.social · 6d

📢CALL FOR PAPERS 📢

Eco-art-histories: Plants and Paintings in the Arts of Asia (Session at the Association for Art History 2026 annual conference)

University of Cambridge, 8-10 April 2026

🚨Deadline: 2 November 2025

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Call for Papers & Applications

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Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut @khiflorenz.bsky.social · 7d

🎧 Hana Gründler bei Deutschlandfunk. Jetzt reinhören!

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Körperbilder - Kunsthistorikerin Gründler: Es gab immer schon eine Pluralität von Schönheitsvorstellungen

Schönheitsideale sind heute vielfältiger als früher. Kunsthistorikerin Hana Gründler beobachtet aber auch einen Gegentrend - und der hat mit KI zu tun.

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Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut @khiflorenz.bsky.social · 8d

📅 07 October, 11.00am
📍 Florence

3rd edition of “The Making Of”: Elia Nurvista will present her practice, which centers on the discourse of food and on the economy and politics of palm oil plantations.

Org. by Mimi Cheng and the Lise Meitner Group “Coded Objects”.

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Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut @khiflorenz.bsky.social · 13d

La Sistina di Michelangelo. Un'icona multimediale

24 September 2025 - 7 January 2026

Exhibition at Casa Buonarroti Firenze with loans from our Photothek!

📷 Group of saints to the left of Christ, Last Judgement, Sistine Chapel, photographic print on paper, ca. 1890, Fotografia Alinari n. 12921

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Max-Planck-Gesellschaft @maxplanck.de · 15d

Die Macht des Makellosen: Von der Renaissance bis zur KI-Ära, Hana Gründler @khiflorenz.bsky.social erforscht, wie #Schönheitsideale gesellschaftliche Normen und Vorurteile widerspiegeln.🪞 mpg.de/25381599/diema…#Schönheiti#Kunsts#Politikik

Agnolo Bronzinos Porträt der Eleonora von Toledo mit ihrem Sohn Giovanni entstand um 1545 und bewegt sich zwischen Idealisierungen der Weiblichkeit und politischer Macht. Bild: Agnolo Bronzino / gemeinfrei

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Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut @khiflorenz.bsky.social · 15d

📢CALL FOR PAPERS 📢

Urban Histories in Motion. Cartographic, Artistic, and Historiographical Representations of the City within Early Modern Intellectual Networks (Session at the EAUH 2026 Conference)

Barcelona, 2-5 September 2026

🚨Deadline: 22 October 2025

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Call for Papers & Applications

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Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut @khiflorenz.bsky.social · 26d

Join us on Sunday in Berlin for "Seed Sounds", a radio performance as part of the annual celebration “Ein Tag im Grünen“ at the Kulturforum, Berlin.

Organized by the 4A_Lab.

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Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut @khiflorenz.bsky.social · 28d

REMINDER - TOMORROW

Urban Images and Their Unpredictable Narratives 1450-1950: Stakeholders, Authorities, and ‘the Other’

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Urban Images and Their Unpredictable Narratives 1450-1950: Stakeholders, Authorities, and ‘the Other'

With its programme of events and exhibitions, the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz sees itself as a forum for academic exchange. Through its calls for papers, fellowships and job opportunities, it aims to foster academic collaboration.

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Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut @khiflorenz.bsky.social · 29d

REMINDER - TOMORROW

Asian Art in Planetary Perspective

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Asian Art in Planetary Perspective

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Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut @khiflorenz.bsky.social · 29d

📢CALL FOR APPLICATIONS 📢

Max Planck Research Group Leader (m/f/d)

To support emerging scholars early in their career path, the MPG invites all outstanding scientists with a doctorate working in any field of research pursued in the organization to apply.

Deadline: 14 October 2025

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Call for Papers & Applications

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Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut @khiflorenz.bsky.social · Sep 8

📅 14 September, 3.00pm
📍 Berlin

Seed Sounds

A radio performance as part of the annual celebration “Ein Tag im Grünen“ at the Kulturforum, Berlin. Organized by the 4A_Lab, a collaborative research and fellowship program between the KHI and the Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz.

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Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut @khiflorenz.bsky.social · Sep 5

Join us on Monday in Florence and online for the transdisciplinary study day "Art and Political Emotions in the 20th and 21st Century" of the Research Group “Ethico-Aesthetics of the Visual”.

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Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut @khiflorenz.bsky.social · Sep 5

📅 11 September
📍 Palermo

Urban Images and Their Unpredictable Narratives 1450-1950: Stakeholders, Authorities, and ‘the Other’

Session at the 12th AISU Congress 2025, organized by Davide Ferri (KHI Florence) and Linda Stagni (ETH Zurich).

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Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut @khiflorenz.bsky.social · Sep 4

📅 10 September
📍 Lisbon

Panel organized by Feng Schöneweiß (4A_Lab, KHI Florenz) and De-nin Lee (Emerson College) at the European Association for Asian Art and Archaeology (EAAA) fourth biennial conference, University of Lisbon, Portugal.

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Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut @khiflorenz.bsky.social · Sep 1

📅 08 September, 2.00pm
📍 Florence & Online
"Art and Political Emotions in the 20th and 21st Century"

Transdisciplinary Study Day of the Research Group “Ethico-Aesthetics of the Visual” with Mikkel Bolt Rasmussen, Vasyl Cherepanyn, Hana Gründler, Luiza Nader, Francesca Raimondi.

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Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut @khiflorenz.bsky.social · Aug 13

📚 More books from the Martin Salter Collection are available now on the open shelves of the KHI Photography Research Library, a special collection of books focused on the theory and history of photography.

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📷 KHI Florenz, Photography Research Library.

#martinsalterstudio #photobooks

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Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT) @kit.edu · Jul 28

Die @humboldt-foundation.de hat Professorin Anna-Maria Meister @tweetissima.bsky.social, Institut für Entwerfen, Kunst und Theorie des #KITKarlsruhe, zum Scout im Henriette Herz-Scouting-Programm ernannt.
📸 Alona Antoniadis

Die Architekturtheoretikerin Anna-Maria Meister vom KIT

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Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut @khiflorenz.bsky.social · Jul 28

📢CALL FOR PAPERS 📢

🚨Deadline approaching: 31 July 2025

Art History, Epistemic Injustice and Ideological Violence
Transdisciplinary Workshop at the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut (17 – 18 October 2025)

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Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut @khiflorenz.bsky.social · Jul 21

Join us on tomorrow in Florence and online for a lecture by Jürgen Müller on "Who is Matthew? A New Interpretation of Caravaggio’s Calling of St. Matthew in the Contarelli Chapel".

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Who is Matthew? A New Interpretation of Caravaggio’s Calling of St. Matthew in the Contarelli Chapel

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Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut @khiflorenz.bsky.social · Jul 18

📅 21-25 July
📍 Sucre, Bolivia

Conference organized by Lucía Querejazu Escobari (Max Planck Partner Group "Empires, Environments, Objects") and Francisco Mamani (Instituto Francés de Estudios Andinos, Chile) at the XII Congreso de la Asociación de Estudios Bolivianos in Sucre.

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Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut @khiflorenz.bsky.social · Jul 17

📅 22 July, 3.00pm
📍 Florence & Online

Lecture by Jürgen Müller on "Who is Matthew? A New Interpretation of Caravaggio’s Calling of St. Matthew in the Contarelli Chapel".

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📷 Caravaggio, Calling of St. Matthew, 1599-1600, Rom, San Luigi dei Francesi, Cappella Contarelli

Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut @khiflorenz.bsky.social · Jul 16

Join us on tomorrow online for a lecture by Sugata Ray on "Das Paradies: The Anthropocene Extinction in the Early Modern World".

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Das Paradies: The Anthropocene Extinction in the Early Modern World

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