Participants
Participants
Participants
Alexandra Dvorkin, Art History Department, Tel Aviv University.
Alexandra Dvorkin is a PhD student and a research assistant at the Art History Department in Tel Aviv University. Her MA thesis, written under the supervision of Dr. Sefy Hendler and Dr. Yuval Sapir, investigated the political use of botany by Duke Cosimo I de’ Medici (1519–1574) via the case studies of Benvenuto Cellini’s (1500–1571) Narcissus (1548–1565) and Bachiacca’s (1494–1557) Scrittoio murals (c. 1545). Her PhD research examines the role of botanical illustration in 16th century herbals, focusing especially on Mattioli’s I Discorsi, as part of a period of scientific uncertainty and fear of errors.
Hila Kohner, Art History Department, Tel Aviv University.
Orly Amit, Art History Department, Tel Aviv University
Orly Amit is a teaching assistant in the Department of Art History at Tel Aviv University, where she has recently completed her MA thesis, under the supervision of Dr. Renana Bartal-Cohen. Her MA thesis explores the shaping and presentation of self-identity in two personal prayer books, copied and illustrated for John of Lancaster (1389-1435), Duke of Bedford and Regent of France (1422-1435), during the second and third decades of the 15th century. She is about to begin her doctoral studies; her PhD research will examine questions of appropriation of Illuminated manuscripts as a means of shaping and presenting self-identity.
Yael Barash, The Program for Religion Studies, Tel Aviv University
Yael Barash submitted recently her MA thesis about the importance of the senses in the epistemological thought of Hildegard von Bingen (1098-1179), under the supervision of Prof. Youssef Schwartz. The importance of the senses is unique for Hildegard's time; most of her contemporary epistemology was based on rational arguments or meditation experience. In the Ph.D. thesis, Barash plans to research the relation of text and image in manuscript of Hildegard’s texts from the 12th and 13th centuries.
Organizers
Conference Chair and Organizer
Tamar Cholcman
Art History Department, Tel Aviv University
Tamar Cholcman is a senior lecturer at the Department of Art History, Tel Aviv University. Her research focuses on the Ephemeral Art of Festivals during the 16th and 17th centuries, in general, and on Festival Emblems, in particular. Her current project concerns the use of emblems in Ephemeral Art Festivals, incorporating text, event, and artists and the literati with emblems, as part of the humanistic and universal Republic of Letters’ discourse.
E-mail: cholcman@tauex.tau.ac.il
Scientific Committee
Dr. Tamar Cholcman, Art History Department, Tel Aviv University
Dr. Sefi Hendler, Art History Department, Tel Aviv University
Prof. Assaf Pinkus, Art History Department, Tel Aviv University
Dr. Renana Bartal, Art History Department, Tel Aviv University
Dr. Adi Luria-Hayun, Art History Department, Tel Aviv University
Organizing Committee
Alexandra Dvorkin
Art History Department, Tel Aviv University
Alexandra Dvorkin is a PhD student and a research assistant at the Art History Department in Tel Aviv University. Her MA thesis, written under the supervision of Dr. Sefy Hendler and Dr. Yuval Sapir, investigated the political use of botany by Duke Cosimo I de’ Medici (1519–1574) via the case studies of Benvenuto Cellini’s (1500–1571) Narcissus (1548–1565) and Bachiacca’s (1494–1557) Scrittoio murals (c. 1545). Her PhD research examines the role of botanical illustration in 16th century herbals, focusing especially on Mattioli’s I Discorsi, as part of a period of scientific uncertainty and fear of errors.
E-mail: alexandrad@mail.tau.ac.il
Hila Kohner
Art History Department, Tel Aviv University
Hila Kohner has recently submitted her Master's dissertation in Tel Aviv University under the supervision of Dr. Tamar Cholcman. In her paper, she focused on the ways Ars memoria ideas influenced the architectural design and the organization of objects at the Museum in the Castle of Ambras, built by Archduke Ferdinand II (1529-1595) of Tirol during the 16th century. In her field of study Hila is interested in the early modern practices of collecting and assembling of marvellous and curios objects. In addition, she masters traditional crafts, such as embroidery and wood carving.
E-mail: hilakoha@mail.tau.ac.il
Orly Amit
Art History Department, Tel Aviv University
Orly Amit is a teaching assistant in the Department of Art History at Tel Aviv University, where she has recently completed her MA thesis, under the supervision of Dr. Renana Bartal-Cohen. Her MA thesis explores the shaping and presentation of self-identity in two personal prayer books, copied and illustrated for John of Lancaster (1389-1435), Duke of Bedford and Regent of France (1422-1435), during the second and third decades of the 15th century. She is about to begin her doctoral studies; her PhD research will examine questions of appropriation of Illuminated manuscripts as a means of shaping and presenting self-identity.
E-mail: orly10amit@gmail.com
Yael Barash
The Program for Religion Studies, Tel Aviv University
Yael Barash submitted recently her MA thesis about the importance of the senses in the epistemological thought of Hildegard von Bingen (1098-1179), under the supervision of Prof. Youssef Schwartz. The importance of the senses is unique for Hildegard's time; most of her contemporary epistemology was based on rational arguments or meditation experience. In the Ph.D. thesis, Barash plans to research the relation of text and image in manuscript of Hildegard’s texts from the 12th and 13th centuries.
E-mail: yaelbar1@mail.tau.ac.il
Tamar Abramson
Art History Department, Tel Aviv University
Tamar Abramson graduated from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (B.A., 2016) with an art history major in Renaissance and Roman art, and a classical studies minor in Latin. Since 2017 she is an M.A. student at the Tel Aviv University’s Department of Art History, currently working on her M.A. thesis under the supervision of Dr. Tamar Cholcman. Her thesis, “The Donatello Code: Attis-Amorino as a Proto-Emblematic Enigma,” offers a proto-emblematic reading of Donatello’s Attis-Amorino and turns to 15th century Florence’s humanistic society for clues as to the puzzling sculpture’s intended meaning and function.
E-mail: tamarguitar@gmail.com
Many thanks to Lena Lipovetsky and Tome Bookshtein for the conference website and program design, to Kesem Bibi for her assistance, and to the all the graduate students who participated in the Republic of Letters seminar and helped to build the foundation for this conference.