CALL FOR PAPERS: Printed Images in Cinquecento Florence, The Renaissance Society of America (RSA), Annual Meeting 2016, Boston, 31 March – 2 April 2016.
Despite its centrality to conventional narratives of early modern Italian art, sixteenth-century Florence’s place within the evolving history of printmaking remains, in many respects, nebulous. Who produced engravings and woodcuts within the sixteenth-century city? In an environment saturated with artists and craftsmen, why were so many Florentine print designers – including Vasari and Stradano – sending their drawings to northern Italy and even beyond the Alps for production? Who constituted the public for prints within the city and how were the products of the press collected and displayed?
We seek new research that explores print design, production and collection in the vibrant and rapidly changing artistic environment of sixteenth-century Florence. Studies may examine particular Florentine printmakers, designers, publishers and collectors or explore themes including seriality, invention, developing technology, emerging markets, or the materiality of the printed image.
Please send a 150-word abstract and 300-word CV to organizers Lia Markey and Sean Roberts.
Source: H-ArtHist