Renaissance Principles and Their Early Modern Receptions: European Currents and Local Appropriations

A workshop organized by: the Institute of Art History Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague; CEFRES – French Research Centre in Humanities and Social Sciences, Prague; École pratique des hautes études – PSL (Paris, research university); Institute of Art History, Julius-Maximilians-Universität, Würzburg; Institute for Art History, Faculty of Arts, Charles University, Prague; National Gallery Prague.

Call for papers here 

Location : CEFRES, Na Florenci 3, (June 11), Institute of Art History, Husova 4 (June 12), National Gallery, Prague, Waldstein Riding School (June 12)
Date : June 11-12, 2024
Langue : english

Forward program 

Tuesday, June 11

9:30-9:45 : Introduction

Mateusz Chmurski  French Research Center in Humanities and Social Sciences (CEFRES)

Taťána Petrasová Institute of Art History of the Czech Academy of Sciences (IAH CAS)

09:30-11:00 : 1st panel

Chaired by Eckhard Leuschner

• Sabine Frommel (EPHE, Paris) To be specified
• Nick Mols (Cardiff University, UK) Wittkower’s Column Theory in Sebastiano Serlio’s Architettura

11:00-11:15 : Coffee break

11:15-12:30 : 2nd panel

Chaired by Sabine Frommel

• Eckhard Leuschner (Julius-Maximilians University of

  Würzburg, Germagny) To be specified

13:00-14:30 : Lunch break 

14:00-15:00 : 3rd panel

Chaired by Richard Biegel

15:00-15:30 : Coffee break

16:00-17:00 : 4th panel

Chaired byr Taťána Petrasová

• Ondřej Jakubec  (Masaryk University, Brno) The so-called Czech Renaissance: the debate on national style and the role of the “periphery” in the 19th and 20th centuries
• Tomáš Murár (Institute of Art History of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague) Weltgeist or Weltanschauung? Search for the Meaning of Italian Renaissance in the late 19th century art history 

Wednesday, June 12

10:00-12:00 : Exhibition

From Michelangelo to Callot. The Art of Mannerist Printmaking. Waldstein Riding School, Malá Strana, metro Malostranská stop; guided tour with the main curator Alena Volrábová, National Gallery Prague and co-author Sylva Dobalová.

12:00-14:30 : Lunch break

14:00-16:00 : Architectural guided tour 

Summer House Belvedere, Ballroom – Prague Castle, Prague 1 (and then we will take tram 22, direction Nádraží Hostivař, from the Královský letohrádek stop to the Jana Masaryka stop).

16:00-17:30 : Architectural guided tour 

Neo-Renaissance Gröbe villa with grotto – Vinohrady, Prague 2

17:30-18:00 : Closing remarks