CFP: IAS-sponsored panel at the Sixteenth Century Society and Conference New Orleans, Louisiana, October 16–19, 2014 Tenets, Training and Theory: Cross-pollination in Academies of Art in Early Modern Italy With an emphasis on communal training and artistic theory, regional academies of art founded in Italy during the sixteenth century shared similar roots. Nonetheless, newly formed institutions varied in their goals, organization, theoretical frameworks, and relationship to their respective state. Some artists were active participants in more than one of these entities, as in the case of Federico Zuccaro, who participated in the reform of the Florentine Accademia del Disegno in the 1570s and was central to the founding of the Accademia di San Luca in Rome (1593). Vincenzo Danti also held leadership roles in the Accademia del Disegno in Florence before he helped to establish the Accademia del Disegno in his hometown of Perugia (1573). What was the result of the cross-pollination of artistic ideas? Was there a common academic dialogue? This session calls for studies that explore the histories and goals of artists’ groups beyond the famous academic centers in central Italy during the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. This includes cases in which artists from central Italian academies became instrumental in the development of academies elsewhere in the peninsula. What were the standards of artistic theory and training that these artists defined, and did they characterize their enterprises as regional, universal, or hybridized? Scholars may address the desire for professional solidarity and promotion of the visual arts, the goals of corporate organization, institutional lectures and instruction, sponsorship and fundraising, the construction of group identity and creation of insignia, public celebrations and ceremony, collaboration of members, and the impact of the first academies on subsequent ones. Please submit a 250-word abstract and a one-page CV to Tamara Smithers and Anne Proctor by March 28, 2014: [email protected], [email protected]
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