34th Annual Symposium – Florence Graduate Program in Italian Renaissance Art

You are cordially invited to the 34th Annual Syracuse University Florence Graduate Symposium. Register for the virtual event.

Program:

Introductions

Session I: The Sacred and the Secular in Sixteenth-Century Florence & Rome

• Courtney Mengel-Vincenzo Danti’s Beheading of St. John the Baptist and the Continuation of Decapitation Imagery Under Cosimo I de’ Medici

• Kathryn Siede-Surpassing Antiquity: Giambologna, Giovanni Caccini, and Grand Duke Ferdinando I de’ Medici’s Hercules and a Centaur

• Allison Carter-A Clash of Angels and Demons in the Vatican: Vasari’s Chapel of Saint Michael for Pope Pius V

• Christine Staton-The Nectanebo Lions on the Fontana dell’Acqua Felice: Egyptian Revival in Rome for Sixtus V

*20-minute intermission*

Session II: Race, Religion, & Gender

• Katherine Torrey-The Black Christian Donor in Italian Depictions of the Miracle of the Black Leg (1370-1470)

• Tara White-Donna con Donna and the Masculine-Feminine Dichotomy: Mythological Images from Sixteenth-Century Fontainebleau and Northern Italy

• Gwendolyn Zwirko-Garofalo’s Ecclesia Slaying Synagoga: Living Cross Iconography and Judeo-Christian Relations in Cinquecento Ferrara

• Giselle Hobbs-Conceptions of Women: Casserius’s Engravings of the Dissected Gravid Uterus in De formato foetu (c. 1600)