Please note that all those attending the conference are required to pre-register; no fees are charged
Early modern Rome was contradictory and complex; its vernacular and high culture animated and rich. From Petrarch’s crowning as Poet Laureate on the Capitoline in 1341 to the pontificate of Alexander VII Chigi in 1667, this conference aims to bring together scholars from a range of disciplines—history, art and architectural history, literature, music, dance, religious studies, philosophy, history of medicine or science, and others—to investigate the city through a variety of different approaches and methods.
The conference organizers wish to encourage scholars of early modern Rome to venture outside of their own disciplinary issues and concerns to explore concurrent forms of cultural production or social and political events in the city. All accepted papers will be published in a volume devoted to the conference, and selected papers will be included in a subsequent edited volume with an academic press.
Iste Ego Sum: A Narcissus From the School of Caravaggio
An Exhibition at the University of California,
Rome Study Center from May 13-15, 2010
On the occasion of the “Early Modern Rome, 1341-1667” conference, the University of California, Rome Study Center will commemorate the anniversary of Caravaggio’s death with an exhibition of a painting of Narcissus by a follower of Caravaggio. The work has been recently rediscovered in a private collection in Rome and after a series of scientific and historical analyses, the painting appears to be close to the style of the Caravaggeschi. The painting will be accompanied by a selection of scientific tests elaborated by Ars Mensurae and a precious 16th-century edition of the Metamorphoses by Ovid translated by Ludovico Dolce.
Throughout the conference a book exhibition will be set up in the University of California, Rome Study Center. Publishers include: CNR, Istituto di Storia dell’Europa Mediterranea; Istituto storico italiano per il Medioevo; Johns Hopkins University Press; Roma nel Rinascimento; SISMEL – Edizioni del Galluzzo; The University of California Press; University of Toronto Press; and Viella.
The banner image used in this website shows a detail of a fresco by Raphael. Permission was courteously granted by the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei.