Visual Humanisms
- Period: October 2021 – October 2022
- Status: completed
Renaissance humanism was a driving force behind the ideal of reviving antiquity. Was this resurrection of non-Christian gods merely an intellectual game or a religious practice?
A symposium explores the role of artists in realising the ideals of humanism in the Renaissance. Many Renaissance artists were actively involved in identifying and physically examining antiquities. Treatises on art theory – often written by artists themselves – contributed to both detailed and general knowledge about antiquity. In this process, Renaissance artists may have acquired more than just textual and visual information, namely what can be described as “tacit” or “embodied” knowledge. It could be argued that artistic research played a crucial role in the process of reintegrating classical textual sources and visual and material culture, which was characteristic of the Renaissance movement.
Researcher
Dr. Marieke van den Doel (curator)
Partner
Netherlands Interuniversity Institute for Art History Florence (NIKI)
(Co-)funding
Stichting Vrienden van het Kunsthistorisch Instituut in Florence
Results
Symposium Visual Humanisms, 20-21 Oktober 2022, in Florence, Italië.
Contact
Dr. Marieke van den Doel, M.vandenDoel@UvH.nl.