Category Archives: Renaissance Art and History

Graduate Student Conference in Renaissance Studies

Posted on September 1, 2020 by briansandberg

The Center for Renaissance Studies at the Newberry Library has issued a call for papers for its annual Multidisciplinary Graduate Student Conference. The conference will be held through virtual roundtables held on 8-13 February 2021. Gradaute students in History at … Continue reading →

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Renaissance Society of America Fellowships

Posted on August 31, 2020 by briansandberg

The Renaissance Society of America offers fellowships for graduate students and faculty who are conducting research on topics in Renaissance studies. “The Society awards a number of competitive fellowships to members each year supporting individual research projects and publications that … Continue reading →

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Art of Renaissance Warfare

Posted on August 28, 2020 by briansandberg

The Center for Renaissance Studies at the Newberry Library (Chicago) will host a virtual conversation with Jonathan Tavares (The Art Institute of Chicago) and Suzanne Karr Schmidt (Newberry Library) on The Art of Renaissance Warfare, to be held on Zoom. … Continue reading →

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Renaissance Invention Exhibition

Posted on August 28, 2020 by briansandberg

A new exhibition on Renaissance Invention: Stradanus’s Nova Reperta opens today (Friday 28 August 2020) at the Newberry Library. The exhibition will run from 28 August to 25 November 2020 in the Trienens Galleries at the Newberry Library in Chicago. … Continue reading →

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Newberry Library Graduate Student Conference

Posted on January 11, 2020 by briansandberg

The Center for Renaissance Studies at the Newberry Library is hosting its annual Multidisciplinary Graduate Student Conference on 23-25 January 2020. Here is the announcement from the Center for Renaissance Studies: CRS announces the schedule for the 2020 Multidisciplinary Graduate … Continue reading →

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Postdoctoral Fellowship on Hérnan Colón

Posted on January 9, 2020 by briansandberg

A postdoctoral fellowship in early modern studies is being offered by the Arnamagnæan Institute at the University of Copenhagen. Here is the Arnamagnæan Institute’s call for applications: Postdoctoral Position – Hernando Colón’s Book of Books The Arnamagnæan Institute, Department of … Continue reading →

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New Italian Paleography Website

Posted on July 29, 2019 by briansandberg

The Center for Renaissance Studies at the Newberry Library has created a new Italian paleography website and digital resource. This resource will be incredibly useful resource for advanced undergraduate students, graduate students, and researchers in Renaissance studies. Here is the … Continue reading →

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Political Realism in Apocalyptic Times

Posted on April 25, 2019 by briansandberg

This week’s horrific Easter bombings in Sri Lanka remind us once again of the troubling presence of religious violence in today’s world. Alison McQueen recent book, Political Realism in Apocalyptic Times (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018), grapples with the politics … Continue reading →

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Swiss Reformation Conference

Posted on April 4, 2019 by briansandberg

The H. Henry Meeter Center will host “The Swiss Reformation at 500,” a two-day conference to mark the beginning of the Swiss Reformation in 1519, when Huldrych Zwingli started his work in Zurich. Bruce Gordon (Yale Divinity School), Amy Nelson … Continue reading →

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Titian Portrait on View

Posted on February 18, 2019 by briansandberg

A Renaissance masterpiece, Portrait of a Lady in White, is currently on view at the Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena, California.  The portrait by Tiziano Vecelli (known as Titian) is on loan from the Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister in Dresden and … Continue reading →

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