Summer School on Printmaking and Print Collecting in Italy, 25-30 June 2017, Italy

Publish Date: Mar 01, 2017

Deadline: Apr 13, 2017

Event Dates: from Jun 25, 2017 12:00 to Jun 27, 2017 12:00

About the summer school 

As part of the year’s cultural initiatives, the Centro Studi Art in Tuscany Residence and the Accademia delle Arti del Disegno di Firenze have created a summer course which will focus on print collecting in Italy. Internationally renowned specialists will guide you through the world of Renaissance and Baroque prints and the most important collections in Florence, Rome, Arezzo and Venice. Among them Cristina Acidini, President of the Accademia delle Arti del Disegno di Firenze (formerly Soprintendente of the Polo Museale Fiorentino), a specialist in the works of Michelangelo and the Zuccari; Lisa Pon (Raphael, Dürer and Marcantonio Raimondi); Anna Bianco (RKD); Gert Jan van der Sman, a distinguished expert in Venetian prints of the 15th and 16th centuries (Print and Printmaking in Venice); Giorgio Marini (Curator at the Gabinetto Disegni e Stampe delle Gallerie degli Uffizi and member of the editorial board of Print Quarterly); Rick Scorza, Accademia delle Arti del Disegno di Firenze (formerly Warburg Institute and Morgan Library & Museum), outstanding expert on Vincenzo Borghini and Giorgio Vasari; and the director of the Summer Course Program Alessandra Baroni Vannucci, specialist in the works of Stradanus and the print culture of the Medici.

Teachers

PROF. DR. Cristina Acidini (President of the Accademia delle Arti del Disegno, Florence)
PROF. DR. Alessandra Baroni Vannucci (Accademia delle Arti del Disegno, Florence/University of Rochester)
PROF. DR. Anna Bianco (The Hague/RKD)
PROF. DR. Giorgio Marini (Gabinetto Disegni e Stampe delle Gallerie degli Uffizi)
PROF. DR. Lisa Pon (Methodist University of Dallas)
PROF. DR. Rick Scorza (London/Accademia delle Arti del Disegno, Florence)
PROF. DR. Gert Jan van der Sman (University of Leiden/NIKI, Florence)

Summer school program ​

  • Sunday June 25, 2017 

10:30 Visit to the cycle of Piero della Francesca, Discovery of the True Cross, St. Francis Church.

11:30 Visit to Vasari's House Museum (Museo di Casa Vasari) 

12:30 luch (free)

17:30 Opening Day : The Sala della Musica, Palazzo della Fraternita dei Laici di Arezzo (Piazza Vasari): Conference of Prof. Anna Bianco on From earth to heaven: love and its variations. Engraved concerts in Dutch and Flemish seventeenth century (with an Introduction to the Course Program by the Director Prof. Dr. Alessandra Baroni Vannucci).

19:00 Concert  

  • Monday  June 26, 2017 (Sala della Musica, Palazzo della Fraternita dei Laici di Arezzo Piazza Vasari)

9:30 Prof. Dr. Baroni Vannucci: Introduction to the course: Master and Pupil: Printmaking and Print Collections in Italy, 16°-17° centuries. and The Medici Collection at the Uffizi Gallery

10:30 coffee

10:45-12:45  Prof. Dr. Gert Jan van der Sman: Venetian Prints in the the Uffizi Gallery Collection 

13:00 Lunch (free)

14:30-15:30 : Prof. Dr. Anna Bianco: Drawn for the music: frontispieces and title-pages for musical editions between the seventeenth and the eighteenth centuries. Some case studies (part 1).

15:30 Coffee

15:45-16:45 Prof. Dr. Anna Bianco: Drawn for the music: frontispieces and title-pages for musical editions between the seventeenth and the eighteenth centuries. Some case studies (part 2) .

16:45-17:15 Q&A

  • Tuesday June 27, 2017 (VIST TO FLORENCE in collaboration with The ACCADEMIA DELLE ARTI DEL DISEGNO)

8:32 Departure to Florence SMN Station (from the Arezzo Train Station)

10:00-12:00 Visit to the Painter Chapel (Cappella dei Pittori) Santissima Annunziata Church with Prof. Dr. Alessandra Baroni Vannucci.

12:00-13:30 Visit to the Uffizi Gallery (with the Director Prof. Dr. Heike Schmidt)

13:00 Lunch (free)

14:30-15:30 : Accademia delle Arti del Disegno (Via Orsammichele 4, 50123 Firenze): Lectures by Prof. Dr. Cristina Acidini (President of the AAD) and Prof. Dr. Enrica Neri (Director of the AAD Art History Class) 

15:30-16:00 Prof. Dr. Rick Scorza (Accademico d'onore AAD): Vasari and Borghini and the Foundation of the Accademia

16:00-16:30: Prof. Dr. Alessandra Baroni Vannucci (Accademico d'onore AAD): Origin and Function of the Uffizi Collection of Prints. 

16:30-17:30: visit to the Palace and Art Collection of the AAD

18:08 Return to Arezzo (train from Florence, SMN Station)

  • Wednesday June 28, 2017  

9:30-10:30 Arezzo, Palazzo della Fraternita dei Laici (Piazza Grande): Prof. Dr. Rick Scorza: Vincenzo Borghini  (1515-1580) prints and illustrations in printed books (part 1)

10:30 coffee

10:45-12:45 :Prof. Dr. Rick Scorza: Vincenzo Borghini  (1515-1580) prints and illustrations in printed books (part 2)

13:00 Lunch (free)

14:30-15:30 : Prof. Dr. Alessandra Baroni Vannucci: Master and Pupils: Vasari and Printmaking and Print Collecting (part 1)

15:30 Coffee

15:45-16:45 A.Baroni Vannucci: Master and Pupils: Vasari and Printmaking and Print Collecting (part 2)

17:00-18:00 Visit to the Fraternita dei Laici Museum, Historic Archive and Bartolini Collection (drawings and prints, 16°-19° centuries).​

  • Thursday June 29, 2017 (VISIT TO ROME, in collaboration with the Istituto Nazionale Centrale per la Grafica, Rome, Via della Stamperia)

7:32 Departure to Rome (train from Arezzo Train Station)

11:00-13:00 Visit to the INCG with Prof. Dr. Giorgio Marini and the Director Prof. Prof. Maria Antonella Fusco.

13:00 Lunch (free)

14:30-16:30 INCG: Prof. Dr. Giorgio Marini: Inside a Print Collection: Destination and Visual Use of Prints 

18:16 Return to Arezzo (train from Roma Termini Station)

  • Friday June 30, 2017

9:30-10:30 (Sala della Musica Palazzo della Fratenita dei Laici) Prof. Dr. Lisa Pon: Collecting Marcantonio. The Spencer Album (part 1)

10:30 coffee

10:45-12:00 Prof. Dr. Lisa Pon: Collecting Marcantonio. The Spencer Album (part 2)

12:00-12:30 Q&A

12:30-13:00 Conclusion (by Prof. Dr. Alessandra Baroni Vannucci)

13:00 Lunch (free)

14:00-16:00 Visit to the Vasari Archive (Vasari's House Museum, second Floor) with Dr. Paola Benigni (Emerito Soprintendente Archivi di Stato della Toscana)

18:30 (Sala della Musica Palazzo della Fraternita dei Laici): Farewell Reception and Delivery of Course Attendance Certificate.

 

How to apply

  1. Please download and fill in the application form 
  2. Submit your application to: summercourse.arezzo@gmail.com
  3. Wait for replay and email of acceptance
  4. After acceptance please complete the payment following the instructions.

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