{"id":5559,"date":"2022-10-14T09:52:45","date_gmt":"2022-10-14T16:52:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arthistory.ucr.edu\/?p=5559"},"modified":"2022-10-14T09:57:45","modified_gmt":"2022-10-14T16:57:45","slug":"molly-bond-to-speak-at-the-kunsthistorisches-institut-in-florenz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arthistory.ucr.edu\/molly-bond-to-speak-at-the-kunsthistorisches-institut-in-florenz\/","title":{"rendered":"Molly Bond to speak at the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #993300;\"><strong>It is our great pleasure to share that PhD candidate, Molly Bond, will present on her research at the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Wednesday, October 19, 2022 at 5:30 am PDT <\/strong>(2:30 pm GMT+2)<br \/>\nIn person at the Palazzo Grifoni (Florence) and online<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/zoom.us\/j\/95475374245?pwd=c0w4UWt6bk5DM1Y1MkMxSEhBWlQxZz09\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/zoom.us\/j\/95475374245?pwd=c0w4UWt6bk5DM1Y1MkMxSEhBWlQxZz09<\/a><br \/>\nMeeting-ID: 954 7537 4245<\/p>\n<p><strong>Spaces of Relief Sculpture: Embodied Spectatorship and the Late Cinquecento \u201cRecanati School\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5560 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/arthistory.ucr.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/thumbnail_image001-300x143.jpg\" alt=\"Recanto School, Molly Bond Talk\" width=\"354\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/arthistory.ucr.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/thumbnail_image001-300x143.jpg 300w, https:\/\/arthistory.ucr.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/thumbnail_image001.jpg 610w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 354px) 100vw, 354px\" \/>In 1564 Florentine monk and intellectual Vincenzo Borghini deemed <em>basso rilievo<\/em> the \u2018dolce amaro\u2019 of the arts: \u2018sweet\u2019 because sculptors might approach the capacity of painting to depict elements of an istoria, but also \u2018bitter\u2019 because relief could neither render a convincing painterly illusion of depth nor offer the multiple views of sculpture in the round.&nbsp; Borghini\u2019s opinion of relief as a kind of \u2018imperfect hybrid\u2019 (Ostrow 2004, 336) is far from unique: indeed, such ambivalence typifies most writings on relief\u2014themselves very few and far between\u2014from the early modern period.&nbsp; Yet, as uneasy as art theoreticians were with this art form, relief permeated the built environment and daily lives of contemporary Italians, as it invested objects ranging from monumental architectural fa\u00e7ades to miniature plaquettes.&nbsp; A partial and \u2018imperfect\u2019 amalgamation of painting and sculpture perhaps, but such in-betweenness allowed reliefs to use the means of both in order to engage viewers across an incredibly broad array of socio-spatial contexts.&nbsp; Foregrounding the idea of embodied spectatorship, my presentation will examine both textual accounts and artifacts that respond to particular aspects of such interaction, including that of a spectator\u2019s mobility, tactile engagement, and the changeable environments that conditioned their encounters with relief sculpture.&nbsp; While similar, phenomenologically-oriented approaches have been fruitfully applied to the study of Renaissance sculpture in the round and even painting, these concerns remain underexplored with respect to relief sculpture.&nbsp; Here the production of the late 16th-century \u2018Recanati School\u2019 of bronze casters will form my primary case study: not only did these artists develop an unusually strong tradition of bronze relief, but their work spanned a wide variety of different socio-religious spaces\u2014from doors, to chapel walls, to statue bases\u2014in and around the Basilica della Santa Casa di Loreto.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is our great pleasure to share that PhD candidate, Molly Bond, will present on her research at the Kunsthistorisches <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/arthistory.ucr.edu\/molly-bond-to-speak-at-the-kunsthistorisches-institut-in-florenz\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[167,103],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lectures-talks","category-news-and-events"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arthistory.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arthistory.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arthistory.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arthistory.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arthistory.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5559"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/arthistory.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5565,"href":"https:\/\/arthistory.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5559\/revisions\/5565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arthistory.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arthistory.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arthistory.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}