Roman Museum Legacies: Dialogue with Dr. Olga Melasecchi, director of the Jewish Museum in Rome
Museums in Rome are among the oldest and most famous in the world, prized for their outstanding collections, collecting histories, and architecture. Together, they present a full range of Western European museum history in one of the most consequential of historic...
Public Lecture: Simulating Empire. Carlo Enrico Rava and the Immersive Experience of Colonialism, 1938-1940
This KNIR Research Dialogue takes as its point of departure a series of ephemeral displays curated by architect and designer Carlo Enrico Rava at the “Mostra Autarchica del Minerale Italiano” in Rome (1938) and the Milan Triennale (1940). In the two...
Public Lecture: The Education of Aztec Princes. Renaissance learning and the native elite in post-conquest Mexico
Twenty years before the Royal University of Mexico was inaugurated for Spanish students in 1554, some youths drawn from indigenous elites in the Valley of Mexico were already receiving a humanist Latin education. This talk will (1) explain the circumstances which led...
Public Lecture: The Virgin’s Home in the Viceroyalty of Peru
The Santa Casa di Loreto, or Holy House of the Virgin Mary, is a peculiar relic of Catholic devotion. Famed as the miraculous flying house of the Mother of God, the structure invited devotion from Catholic communities as an embodiment of the Virgin’s presence on...-
Datum
8 januari 2025
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Tijd
17:00
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