Quid Tum

04/12/2012

Friends,
Suggestions on programmes I can download to draw genealogy trees?

06/11/2012

Dear Quid Tum friend,

I just came across this miniature from the XV century Florentine Squarcialupi Codex (Laurenziana). The miniature represents the organist Andrea da Firenze. I am particularly interested in the black habit worn by the figure. Could it refer to the fact that Andrea da Firenze was a music "magister"? Has anyone come across representations of other "magister" dressed in black? looking forward to hearing from you, any suggestion would be really helpful!

Thank you, Irene

19/10/2012

Call For Speakers

Dear All,
The Postgraduate Renaissance Society (Quid Tum) is looking for speakers for the upcoming term to present in our biweekly lunchtime seminars. It's open to all postgraduates and early-career researchers with research interest in the Renaissance, and we welcome presenters from all departments.

Our format in the past has been for the speaker to present on a topic of their choice for about 15-20 followed by round-table discussion, but we encourage more interactive or discursive formats as well. This is a forum for postgrads and early-career researchers to present ongoing research, try new topics on a receptive audience, and explore new modes of presentation, so we strongly encouraged all interested to take part. Topics presented on need not be your main thesis, this is also the perfect setting to present
side projects and areas of developing interest.

Please send proposals including your name, field, and brief description of the
presentation topic to:

[email protected]

30/09/2012

Events in Florence and Edinburgh. Do not miss out!

http://thevespuccifamily.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/events-events-events.html

17/09/2012

Dear all,

On 2 November The University of Edinburgh will host the interdisciplinary conference 'New Directions in Renaissance Italy'. Gathering postgraduate students and early career researchers from a wide range of disciplines, the event provides a forum to explore and discuss emerging areas of enquiry related to the Italian Renaissance. Please follow the link for information about programme, papers and registration: http://edinburghnewdirection.wordpress.com/

Hope to see you all there!
The Quid Tum Team

A University of Edinburgh Conference

19/04/2012

12th April 2012

18/04/2012

Archival Seminar Studies organized in Florence (4th-16th June 2012) by the Medici Archive Project! For more info go to http://medici.org/educational-programs

For the second consecutive year, the Medici Archive Project will be offering a two-week intensive seminar on archival research applied to historical and art historical disciplines. Especially intended for advanced graduate students in Renaissance and early modern scholars, this seminar will be team-...

09/04/2012

Dear All,

You are warmly invited to the next session of the Postgraduate Renaissance discussion group Quid Tum, meeting at 1pm on Thursday 12th April in the Common Room of Minto House (20 Chambers Street).

This week, Lee Ang will be discussing Michelangelo's Ignudi followed by an open discussion. Tea and biscuits will be provided, hope to see you all there!

Irene & Jackie

Abstract- Michelangelo’s Ignudi, the Diomedes and ‘Iustitia’

The figure of Diomedes in the famous gem ‘the Diomedes and the Palladium’ has long been claimed as one of the chief sources of Michelangelo’s Ignudi. However, few studies have gone beyond suggesting the formal similarity between the Diomedes figure and the Ignudo at the right above Erithrea. On the Renaissance reception of the ‘Diomedes and the Palladium’, insufficient attention has been given to studying the meaning and context in the various artistic appropriations of the Diomedes figure. In this talk, I am going to focus on some artistic appropriations of the Diomedes in the fifteenth and sixteenth century Italy and discuss how the metaphysical understanding of beauty and harmony in the posture of the Diomedes figure contributed to the realization of its thematic potential. As to be shown in the talk, the Renaissance reinterpretations of the figure of the Diomedes may shed some new light upon the questions such as: ‘what is the meaning of the Ignudi’ and ‘what the “certain principle” Michelangelo found in the Belvedere Torso that “gave his works a grandeur of gusto equal to the best antiques”’…

02/04/2012

Dear All,

You are warmly invited to the next session of the Postgraduate
Renaissance discussion group Quid Tum, meeting at 1pm on Thursday 5 April in the Common Room of Minto House (20 Chambers Street).

This week, Irene Mariani will be discussing the story behind the the
striking Italian frescos attributed to Lattanzio Gambara that are now
housed in our very own Holyroodhouse in Edinburgh.

Abstract
'Lattanzio Gambara: a lost pictorial cycle between
Italy and Scotland'

When entering the Palace of Holyroodhouse in Edinburgh visitors are
directed towards the Great Stair that, from the entrance, leads to the
historical apartments on the first floor. Among the tapestries and
paintings hung on the walls that surround the stair, there are eight
fresco fragments attributed to the Renaissance Italian artist
Lattanzio Gambara. Representing mythological scenes from Ovid's
Metamorphoses, the fragments stand out due to their imposing dimension
but very little is known about their history. What was their original
location? And why are now in Edinburgh? By focusing on their
commission, iconography and meaning the paper aims at exploring the
history of the fragments: their original setting in a sixteenth
century Italian palazzo; their purchase by Prince Albert in 1856; and
their final shipping to Edinburgh in 1881.

28/03/2012

Hello!
Quid Tum will not be running this Thursday but new exciting talks are coming up in April! Stay tuned

28/03/2012

Speaker: Natalie Lussey (15th March 2012)

15/03/2012

Hello everybody! Anyone interested in presenting in the next QUID TUM meetings over April? Get in touch! Please write to: [email protected] or [email protected]. Looking forward to hearing from you :)