From Riverbed to Seashore:
Art on the Art on the Move in Eastern Europe and the Mediterranean in the Early Modern Period
June 12-13, 2015
New Europe College, Bucharest
[The Getty Foundation, Connecting Art Histories Initiative; Harvard University]
JUNE 12, 2015
Introductory Remarks
9:30-9:50 – Alina Payne (Harvard University, USA) The Portability of Art. A Prolegomena to
Art and Architecture on the Move
Panel I. The Black Sea
9:50-10:20 – Cemal Kafadar (Harvard University, USA) “Vampire trouble is more serious than
the mighty plague.” A Comparative Look at the History of Evil and Mischief, inspired by Evliya
Celebi (1611-1684?)
10:20-10:50 – Nicole Kançal-Ferrari (Istanbul Şehir University, Turkey) Investigation in a
Shared Aesthetic Language: Architecture and Artistic Environment of the Golden Horde and
Early Crimean Khanate Period in Crimea (XIIIth – XVIth centuries)
10:50-11:20 – Gülru Necipoğlu (Harvard University, USA) Contextualizing the Mangalia
Mosque (mid-1570s): The Waqf Empire of an Ottoman Power-Couple, Princess Ismihan Sultan
and Her Husband Sokollu Mehmed Pasha
11:20-11:50 – Coffee Break
11:50-12:20 – Alexander Osipian (Kramatorsk Institute of Economics and Humanities, Ukraine)
Oriental Carpets and Rugs as Complex Social Messages: Attitudes of Armenian Merchants,
Polish Nobility and Catholic Intellectuals in the Seventeenth-Century Polish Kingdom
12:20-12:50 – Tatiana Sizonenko (University of San Diego, California) Venetian Architecture
for the Tsar: Alevisio Novy's Encounter with the Arts of Muscovy
12:50-13:20 – Daniela Calciu (Ion Mincu University of Architecture and Urbanism, Romania)
Sociability Seeps: Coffee on the Lower Danube (Moldavia and Walachia) in the 17th and Early
18thcenturies
13:20-14:20 – Lunch Break
Panel II. Danubian Exchanges
14:20-14:50 – Iván Szántó (Eötvös Loránd University, Institute of Art History, Hungary)
Re-Imagining Ottoman Space in the Age of Reason
14:50-15:20 – Jacek Bielak (University of Gdansk, Art History Institute, Poland) Amber
Artworks and their Meaning in the Transcultural Exchange
15:20-15:50 – Diana Belci (University “Politehnica” Timisoara, Romania) Wood and Stone:
Cultural Transfers in Early Modern Banat Architecture
15:50-16:20 – Coffee Break
16:20-16:50 – Anna-Mária Nyárádi (Eötvös Loránd University, Institute of Art History,
Hungary) Goldsmithery Made for the Cantacuzinos: How Şeytanoğlu’s Descendants Made Art
Flourish in Wallachia
16:50-17:20 – Michał Wardzyński (University of Warsaw, Institute of Art History, Poland) On
the Way to the ‘New Empire’: An ‘After-life’ of the Roman and Byzantine Marble and Porphyry's
Traditions in Central Europe during the Early-Modern Era
17:20-17:50 – Stanko Kokole (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia) “ut ad Imperatoriam sedem
transmitterentur...”: Ancient Roman Inscriptions on the Move within the Habsburg Empire of
Charles VI
17:50-18:20 – Vladimir Simić (University of Belgrade, Serbia) Printed Cyrillic Books Between
Venice and the Danube in the First Half of the 16th Century
JUNE 13, 2015
The Eastern Mediterranean
9:30-10:00 – Ioli Kalavrezou (Harvard University, USA) The Reliquary of St. Niphon: Relations
Between Wallachia, Constantinople and Mt. Athos
10:00-10:30 – Darka Bilić (Institute of Art History, Center Cvito Fisković, Croatia) The Lazareto
in Split Between East and West
10:30-11:00 – Elizabeth Kassler-Taub (Harvard University, USA) Early Modern Sicily and the
Eastern Frontier
11:00-11:30 – Coffee Break
11:30-12:00– Mirko Sardelić (Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Zagreb, Croatia)
Between Venice and the Levant: a 16th-Century Ship in the Adriatic
12:00-12:30 – Josip Belamarić (Institute of Art History, Center Cvito Fisković, Croatia) The
Villa in Renaissance Dubrovnik: ars ubi naturam perfecit apta rudem (where art has tamed the
wild nature)
12:30-13:00 – Ana Šverko (Institute of Art History, Center Cvito Fisković, Croatia) Michele and
Giangirolamo Sanmicheli’s Fort St Nicholas in Šibenik in the Context of Adriatic Renaissance
Fortifications
13:00-13:30 – Daniel Premerl (Institute of Art History, Zagreb, Croatia) Visual Propaganda for
the Illyrian Cause in Urban VIII's Rome