Summer School Rome 2011

Period: 26.06.2011 - 04.07.2011

 

From 26 June till 3 July of 2011 the Faculty of Arts of the University of Groningen and the Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome (KNIR) will organize the interdisciplinary summer school  Collecting and Preserving: Admiring the Material World in Rome, Renaissance to Enlightenment  in Rome.

Early modern man seems to have been driven by his or hers urge to collect and celebrate objects. While medieval Europeans honoured and venerate a variety of objects – relics, ostrich eggs, jewels, goblets - they far less valued the typical Renaissance investment in culture - antiquities, scientific instruments, ancient manuscripts, paintings and sculpture, various types of naturalia. In this summerschool we will follow the path of the typical earlymodern objects that embody the image of an age of transformation and via them we will try to penetrate in the past as far as possible.

Central to the summer school are questions concerning the reasons individuals and organizations collected, preserved, exhibited, visited, and used objects of art and natural history, manuscripts, books, and scientific instruments. What were their scholarly, scientific, artistic, aesthetic, and wider cultural motives? What were the reasons for the loss and destruction of some of these collections? How exactly did collection, preservation, and exhibition take place? The focus will be both on private collections as well as on public collections, particularly libraries and museums.

Through interactive lectures, excursions in Rome the participants will research the theory and practice of the collection and preservation of art, manuscripts, books, natural objects and scientific instruments. Rome is an obvious city for this subject, since this is where collecting started at an early date, and some of the earliest examples of collections are still to be admired there.

 

                                            Deadline for application is 1 May 2011!

 

The summerschool will be hosted by the Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome (KNIR).

Teachers will be

- Prof.Catrien Santing (Groningen)

- Prof. Wessel Krul (Groningen)

- Dr. Marieke van den Doel (Rome)

- Prof. Steven Vanden Broecke (Ghent)

-Prof. Ingrid Rowland (Rome)

  

The summerschool is open to students who are doing a Ba-Honours, Master or PhD. There is a maximum number of 10 students who can participate.

 

Fee: € 700,- including accommodation at the Netherlands Institute in Rome, but excluding travel expenses to and from Rome.