The Faculty of Arts of the University of Groningen (RuG) in collaboration with the Royal Netherlandish Institute in Rome (KNIR) present the

 

Summerschool Rome 2010

 

"Instruments of Truth: Alternations of Models and Anti-Models in 16th Century Devotional Art, Literature and Culture in Early-Modern Italy"

 

Date: 25 June – 5 July 2010

Location: Royal Netherlandish Institute in Rome

Application deadline: 15 April 2010

 

This summer the Faculty of Arts of the University of Groningen organizes the interdisciplinary summer school Alternations of Models and Anti-Models 16th Century Art, Literature and Culture in Early-Modern Italy, hosted by the Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome (KNIR). Through interactive lectures, excursions in Rome and writing a thesis the participant will research the period starting from the Sacco di Rome in 1527 till the end of the Council of Trent in 1563.

 

Until recently, this period has been perceived as an intermittent phase inbetween two era’s of harmony and order (High Renaissance and Counter Reformation respectively) and consequently as a time of disintegration and subsequent reintegration. Nowadays scholars have come to reconsider this perception and see the period as an entity in itself. They have recognized that in it, established cultural codes, canons and orthodoxies were energetically researched and (con)tested and (potential) freedom and connectedness were possible. They have pointed to the remarkable growing of interest in spiritual matters and the variety of literary, artistic and cultural forms this took on.

 

Starting from these premises, the following questionnaire will be tackled.

• How can we analyze the mechanisms of cultural dynamics in the 1520-40s in pre Counter-Reformation Italy?
• How can we describe the interactions between innovative experimentations both in the area of the fine arts and the literary field?
• What is the exact relationship between a growing interest in spiritual matters in both art and literature and its repercussion on the stability of aesthetical norm in society?
• How to describe the alternation between model, anti-model and renewed model in a two-decades area?

 

Scientific Staff: Ph. Bossier, B. Stolte, B. Treffers, H. van Veen

Invited Scholar: Not definite yet.