Purity and Contamination in Renaissance Art and

Purity and Contamination
in Renaissance Art and Architecture
Saturday, October 1, 2016
MIT Bartos Theater
20 Ames Street, Cambridge, MA
(E15), bottom floor
Registration is required to attend this event as space is limited.
It opens in early August and closes on Sept. 20, 2016.
9:00 am Check In
9:30 Welcome
Arindam Dutta (MIT) and Touba Ghadessi (NERC/Wheaton
College)
Introductory Remarks
Lauren Jacobi (MIT) and Daniel Zolli (The Getty)
9:50-11:10 Session I: Liquidity and Materiality
Moderator: David Karmon (Holy Cross)
2:15-3:45 Session III: Hybridity and Hybrid Practices
Moderator: Jessica Maier (Mount Holyoke)
2:15 Carolyn Yerkes (Princeton) — Inhabited Sculptures,
Lethal Weapons
2:40 Lorenzo Buonanno (UMass, Boston) — Taming the
Chimera: Jacopo Sansovino and the Rhetoric of the Hybrid
3:05 Christopher Nygren (University of Pittsburgh) — The
Splendor of Impurity: Painted Stones and the Matter of Early
Modern Art
9:50 Joseph Ackley (Barnard) — Perceiving Gold in Fifteenthcentury German Painting and Sculpture: The Hallwyl Reliquary
in Appearance and Substance
3:45 Afternoon Intermission
10:15 Amy Bloch (SUNY, Albany) — The Practice of
Goldsmithery and Fifteenth-Century Florentine Sculpture
4:15-5:15 Session IV: Finishing
Moderator: Nathaniel Silver (Isabella Stewart Gardner)
10:40 Michael Waters (Columbia) — Cannons, Columns, and
Candelabra: Objects of Interchange in late fifteenth-century
Italy
11:20 Keynote Lecture
Felipe Pereda (Harvard) — Carnal Blood, Spiritual Milk, and
the Politics of Purity in Early Modern Spain
12:10-1:15 pm Lunch Recess
1:15-2:15 Session II: Place and Placelessness
Moderator: Stephanie Leone (Boston College)
1:15 Niall Atkinson (University of Chicago) — Taking
Architectural Theory on the Road: Renaissance Travelers and
the Geographic Imagination
1:40 Cristelle Baskins (Tufts) — Who is a Habsburg Now?
Transculturalism and the Early Modern Maghreb
4:15 Rachel Boyd (Columbia) — Pulitezza: The Shining
Surfaces of Della Robbia Sculpture and Their Renaissance
Connotations
4:40 Carolina Mangone (Princeton) — Displaying
Michelangelo’s Non-finito: Erosion, Accretion, Excavation
5:15-6:00 Roundtable
Moderator: Jodi Cranston (Boston University)
Michael Cole (Columbia)
Caroline Jones (MIT)
Joseph Leo Koerner (Harvard)
Pamela Smith (Columbia)
Luke Syson (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Jane Tylus (New York University)
6:00-7:00 Meet and Greet
This event is the Fall 2016 New England Renaissance Conference. It is co-organized by Lauren Jacobi (Assistant
Professor, HTC, Massachusetts Institute of Technology) and Daniel Zolli (Postdoctoral Fellow, Getty Research
Institute), sponsored by MIT's Department of Architecture and School of Architecture and Planning, and generously
supported by an MIT Council for the Arts Grant and a MIT HASS Award.
Image Description: A letter with cloth swatches from the Datini Company of Barcelona sent in 1402 or 1403 to Prato (Italy), Archivio di Stato di
Prato, Datini, busta 1173 codice 1620.

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