Kolloquium: Michelangelo 550!

In the organizer's words:

"Michelangelo 550!" concludes the trilogy with which the Central Institute for Art History presents current research on the three 'founders' of the High Renaissance in Italy (previously Leonardo da Vinci, 2019, and Raphael, 2020). Particularly in view of the discussions and changes in the discipline of art history today, the question of why and how an examination of these 'old masters' should take place is posed in a new way. The colloquium presents new interpretations of selected works from all areas in which Michelangelo was active: painting, sculpture, drawing, architecture and poetry.

Program:

14:00 Introduction by Ulrich Pfisterer

2:15 p.m.
Golo Maurer (Bibliotheca Hertziana - Max Planck Institute, Rome) // Michelangelo's planning drawings for his Florentine studio building
Giuseppe Peterlini (Otto-Friedrich-University Bamberg) // Victory, the Subdued and the "New Michelangelo". Reflections on Pierino da Vinci's Samson Subdues a Philistine

3:15 p.m.
Horst Bredekamp (Humboldt University, Berlin) // Trapped in space and in themselves. The figures of the Sistina spandrels
Christine Ott (Goethe University Frankfurt a.M.) // Unspeakable Emotions? An intermedial analysis of the autograph Ben doverrieno al sospirar mie tanto (2 poem variants and drawing)

16:15 hrs | Break

16:45
Chiara Franceschini (Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich/Scuola IMT Alti Studi Lucca) // Cappella Medici: tempi del lavoro e passaggio delle Ore
Claudia Echinger-Maurach (University of Münster) // On the Inventio and Disegno of the Madonna Medici

5:45 pm
Vitale Zanchettin (Musei Vaticani) // Pietra e autografia del progetto. La costruzione della Cappella Sforza sulla base di alcuni nuovi dati e documenti
Michael Cole (Columbia University, New York) // S. Maria degli Angeli

7:00 p.m.
Opening of the exhibition Michelangelo 550!

PARTICIPATION:
Participation is free of charge.
The event will be broadcast in parallel via Zoom. Information about the event can be found here.