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Sunday, December 30

 

Morning and Afternoon Sessions: Naftali Building, Room 527

 

09:00-09:30       Gathering
09:30-09:45       Opening Remarks

Tamar Cholcman, Conference Chair, Art History Department, Tel Aviv University

Alexandra Dvorkin, PhD. Student, Art History Department, Tel Aviv University

 

9:45-11:15        Session I: De amicitia: Sharing Art and Knowledge

                         Chair: Tamar Cholcman, Tel Aviv University

Portraying the Republic of Letters: The Scholarly Clientele of Pieter Schenk I, Engraver

Manuel Llano, Utrecht University

Reading Between the Lines: Donatello and the literati

Tamar Abramson, Tel Aviv University

“Il se pique d’être universel”: Sébastien Le Clerc and the Scientific Circle of Matthieu-François Geoffroy in Early Eighteenth-Century Paris

Antoine Gallay, University of Geneva / University Paris-10

 

11:15-11:35      Coffee Break

 

11:35-13:00      Session II: Artistic-Scientific Endeavors: The Encounters

                         Chair: Assaf Pinkus, Tel Aviv University

“A Science of Names and Words”: Art, Knowledge, and the Learned Artist in Late Renaissance Venice

Mattia Biffis, University of Oslo – The Norwegian Institute in Rome

Louis Feuillée and Charles Plumier: Two Botanists and Draughtsmen in the Republic of Letters

Marianne Volle, York University / Glendon College in Toronto

Networks of Scientific and Artistic Knowledge in Peter Apian’s Astronomicum Caesareum

Alexandra Challenger, Florida State University

 

13:00-14:30 Lunch

 

14:30-15:30      Roundtable: The Vernacularization of Knowledge – from the Ecclesiastic Latinate Walls to the Vernacular Public Space

Moderator: Yossef Schwartz, Cohn Institute for History and Philosophy of Science, Tel Aviv University

Speakers:

Nurit Golan, Cohn Institute for History and Philosophy of Science, Tel Aviv University

Einat Klafter, School of History / Art History, Tel Aviv University

 

Chair: Yael Barash, Tel Aviv University

 

15:30-16:00      Coffee Break

 

Evening Session and Keynote: Mexico Building, Fastlicht Auditorium

 

16:00-17:30      Session III: Text to Image: The Viewing of Words

Chair: Renana Bartal Cohen, Tel Aviv University

An Image from a Vision: How Hildegard Conveyed Ideas through the Senses

Yael Barash, Tel Aviv University

Delivering the Apocalypse: The Illustrated Use of Pronuntiatio in the Tenth-Century Commentary on the Apocalypse

Shachar Machlev, Tel Aviv University

'The First Cause Holding a Paint-Brush': Art and Theology in Seventeenth-Century Jewish Venice

Ahuvia Goren, Cohn Institute for History and Philosophy of Science, Tel Aviv University

 

17:30-18:00      Coffee Break

 

18:00-19:15      Keynote: Making and Knowing in the Early Modern European Republic of Letters

                         Pamela H. Smith, Columbia University

 Chair: Tamar Cholcman, Tel Aviv University

 

 

Monday, December 31

Mexico Building, Hall 206A

 

09:30-10:00       Gathering

 

10:00-11:25      Session IV: Poetic Imagery: An Artist’s Use and Interpretation of Text

                         Chair: Sefy Hendler, Tel Aviv University

The Legacy of the “New Apollo and New Apelles”: Michelangelo’s Exemplarity for Medicean Artist-Poets, 1537-87

Diletta Gamberini, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

Benvenuto Cellini's Narcissus: A Flowering and Colorful Ticket to the Republic of Letters

Alexandra Dvorkin, Tel Aviv University

Horace on Skates: A Classically Dutch Interpretation of the Seventeenth-Century Winter Scene

Erik Harrington, University of Virginia

 

11:25-11:45      Coffee Break

 

11:45-12:45      Workshop: Entering the Republic through the Back Door:

                        Adopting Ways of Life

                        Gadi Algazi, Tel Aviv University

Chair: Tamar Abramson, Tel Aviv University

 

12:45-14:30      Lunch

 

14:30-16:00      Session V: Collecting (Visual) Knowledge

                        Chair: Orly Amit, Tel Aviv University

The Tacuinum Sanitatis: Changes in Traditions of Collecting, Organizing and Representing Medical Knowledge in the Late Middle Ages

Noga Shlomi, Cohn Institute for History and Philosophy of Science, Tel Aviv University

Making Fun of the Republic of Letters: Johann Fischart and his Satirical Book Catalogues

Jodok Trösch, University of Basel

“...wie ichs begeren iederzytt zu leeren”: Basilius Amerbach and the Artists

Tobias Bitterli, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

 

16:00-16:20      Coffee Break

 

16:20-17:15      Session VI: To Be Continued? Art and the Republic of Letters Today

                         Chair: Adi Luria-Hayun, Tel Aviv University

Cosmopolitan Republic of Letters. On the Worldliness of Literature and Photography

Monica Raič, University of Innsbruck

Artists’ Books – A Critical Territory of Experience

Na’ama Zussman, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

 

17:15-17:45      Coffee Break

 

17:45-18:45      Plenary Talk: Producing Knowledge and the Poetics of the New Science

                         Raz Chen-Morris, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Chair: Hila Kohner, Tel Aviv University

 

19:30-21:00 Conference Reception at the Genia Schreiber University Art Gallery