LIVORNO – “Annarosa Garzelli and Florentine Renaissance Miniature Painting, forty years of studies and research” is the theme of the two Study Days, scheduled in Livorno on October 3 and 4, at the Fortezza Vecchia, Sala Ferretti. Conference organized and curated by researcher Francesca Masi and Alessandra Perriccioli president of the International Society of the History of Miniature Painting, with the contribution of the Northern Tyrrhenian Sea Port System Authority and the Tuscany Region, under the Patronage of the Municipality of Livorno, the Province of Livorno and the Tuscany Region.
Two Study Days in memory of Annarosa Garzelli, an art historian from Livorno, formerly full professor of History of Medieval and Modern Art at the University of Pisa, on the 20th anniversary of her death and the 40th anniversary of the publication of her study: ‘Miniatura fiorentina del Rinascimento. 1440-1525. Un primo censimento’ (Florentine Renaissance Miniature Painting. 1440-1525. A First Census).
Two massive volumes – one of text and one of images – published by the Tuscany Region in the series ‘Inventari e cataloghi toscani’ (Tuscan Inventories and Catalogues) which were presented in Florence by Federico Zeri. Annarosa Garzelli was the author, in addition to numerous books and articles dedicated to Tuscan painting, sculpture and architecture, of important essays on Florentine Renaissance miniature painting, which to this day are fundamental for those who deal, all over the world, with the decoration of illuminated manuscripts.
THE CONFERENCE
Distinguished Italian and foreign scholars from the following will speak at the conference: University of Padua, University of Florence, Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa, “La Sapienza” University of Rome, University of Tuscia, University of L’Aquila, University of Campania L. Vanvitelli, University of Naples Federico II, Herzog August Bibliothek of Wolfenbüttel, University of Cincinnati (via remote connection).
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The themes that will be addressed in the presented papers will take their cue from the vast material published by Annarosa Garzelli in 1985, rich in data, critical commentary and historical reflections dedicated to Florentine miniature painting which during the fifteenth century enjoyed great success. Illuminated codices, more manageable and easily transportable than other artistic artifacts, became among the most requested works also thanks to the commissions of the many Italian and foreign humanist sovereigns who were building large libraries.
The illustration chosen for the conference poster – one of the 1102 published in Volume II – shows one of the oldest iconographic allusions to the ‘castle of Livorno’, prior to the construction of the Fortezza Vecchia; in particular, it is a miniature contained in a Florentine codex datable to around the end of the 15th century. Therefore, this could only be the symbolic image of the conference: a miniature made known by Annarosa Garzelli in her Corpus that iconographically links her hometown – Livorno, albeit in its early days – to the study of fifteenth-century Florentine miniature painting.
