Annual Renaissance Society of America
New York, 27-29 mars 2014
For the panel « Art and its Classes » speakers are invited to explore how social mobility (or lack thereof) influenced patronage, creation and study of art during the Renaissance, and/or address the wider question of elitism in art history.
Topics could include but are not limited to :
- How Giorgio Vasari’s position at court influenced his Lives
- Karel van Mander’s nobility and his Het Schilderboek
- Group patronage among the lower and emerging middle classes
- Ennobling of artists (Michelangelo, Titian, Giambologna among others)
- Social mobility expressed through display at French, English, Italian or German courts
- Early modern/contemporary distinctions between « high” and « low” art
- Collecting « exotic” art and objects from outside Europe (and vice versa) as class markers
- Current diffusion of and /or « dumbing down” of Renaissance art history via television, video games, social media and public history.
Please send 150 word abstracts and a short c.v. to Meghan Callahan and David Boffa (meghan.a.callahan@gmail.com,davidboffa@gmail.com) by May 30.
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