Period: 27 June 2010 – 05 July 2010
This summer the Faculty of Arts of the University of Groningen organizes the interdisciplinary summer school "
Instruments of Truth:
Devotional Art, Literature and Culture in Early-Modern Italy", hosted by the Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome (KNIR). Through interactive lectures, excursions in Rome and assembling a portfolio the participant will research the period starting from the Sacco di Roma 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.
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How can we analyze the mechanisms of cultural dynamics in the 1520-40s in pre Counter-Reformation Italy?
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How can we describe the interactions between innovative experimentations both in the area of the fine arts and the literary field?
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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?
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How to describe the alternation between model, anti-model and renewed model in a two-decades area?
During the week participants will attend the excursions, lectures given by professor Bossier (Groningen), professor Van Veen (Groningen) and professor Treffers (Rome), as well as a masterclass led by professor Nagel (Toronto). A thorough preparation is essential to all participants of this Summerschool. In advance, participants will receive a syllabus with the relevant literature and are expected to have read this as well as to have thought about a subject extensively before arriving in Rome. During the actual Summer School, then, there will be time to attend the lectures, the excursions and discuss with the researchers at hand. Also, participants are expected to do more research in the library of the KNIR and other institutes, so as to work out their subject and collect all this information in a portfolio. At the end of the week participants are to present their research and hand in their portfolio. This document - together with comments from the researchers - forms the foundation of an article, to write afterwards.
Deadline to apply: 15 May 2010!!!
