Program of AIWAC 2022

Francesco Bedeschi Resident Director UARK Rome Program Consuelo Lollobrigida Convenor of AIWAC Faculty of Art History University of Arkansas Rome Program Adelina Modesti Convenor of AIWAC Honorary Senior Fellow in... Read More

Adelina Modesti, chair – Rebecca M. Gregg, executive organization

During her visions, and particularly when she is visited by the «lux vivens», Hildegard experiences a transformation of her sense organs, which no longer distinguish between sensations, but perceive them... Read More

Still-life painting might seem to epitomize a connection between women artists and naturalism. Certainly, Western European women were pioneers in the genre of what later came to be known as... Read More

Naturalism and the portrayal of the natural world as a meta for Renaissance painting is often discussed regarding male artists such as Leonardo, but less so for women artists. Ironically,... Read More

Florence, 1792: during her trip to Italy the French painter Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun finds herself for the second time in the Grand Duchy of Tuscany. During her stay, she... Read More

Unearthing colonialism: botanic criticism in the work of Jenny Yurshansky. This paper will focus on the work that American artist Jenny Yurshansky has developed since 2012 around the classification of... Read More

Pilgrim place Loreto is situated in the middle of Prague district Hradčany, therefore in one of the most prominent parts of Prague. There we can find Prague Castle, an old... Read More

Consuelo Lollobrigida, chair – Mary D. Reynolds, executive organization

The collaborative nature of early modern natural science has been well established. As Brian Ogilvie noted, the development of botanical knowledge, amongst other areas of focus, “could be the product... Read More

In the early seventeenth century, Roman nobles prized flowers for their exoticism and beauty. They constructed decorative gardens, collected rare and exotic plants, and commissioned paintings of flowers in vases... Read More

Consuelo Lollobrigida, chair – Mary D. Reynolds, executive organization

Properzia de’ Rossi lived in 16th-century Bologna: first schultora in history of art, she took part in the construction of the main basilica in the city (San Petronio) where she... Read More

My paper focuses on Elizabeth Gould (1804-1841), an important but largely overshadowed figure in nineteenth century ornithology. Elizabeth, in partnership with her husband John Gould, became a pioneering and productive... Read More

When in 1686 Catherine Perrot (d. 1690) published a treatise on the art of painting in miniature, she became one of the only known women in the early modern period... Read More

The rooms of the British Museum in London host, among countless other treasures, the so-called “Flora Delanica”, one of the most surprising herbariums of the eighteenth century. Work of Mary... Read More

The interest in nature—expressed through artistic gardens and works of art with botanical and zoological subjects—widespread in grand ducal Florence, had a reflection in some conventual chronicles and poetical collections.... Read More

From the paintings of exquisite floral arrangements by Rachel Ruysch to the meticulous documentation of entomological subjects in their tropical milieu by Maria Sibylla Merian, early modern women depicted the... Read More

This paper will examine the place occupied by native flora in representations of country in the work of First Nations female painters. The paper will focus in particular on women... Read More

Female artists of the 18th century often paint (only) still lifes – and thus produce works in a genre that is still regarded today as a inferior in the canon... Read More

Eleonora di Toledo was associated with fertility themes and ancient harvest goddesses throughout her reign as second duchess of Florence. These associations were based on both her personal fecundity, as... Read More

Adelina Modesti, chair – Kirsten B. Larson, executive organization

The Netherlands witnessed a distinct rise in the publication of a variety of household manuals and guides in the seventeenth-and eighteenth-century, presaged by early cookbooks and conduct guides as harbingers... Read More

When the Princesse des Ursins (1642-1722), née Marie-Anne de la Trémoille, entered the Roman aristocracy after marrying the Duke of Bracciano and Prince of Neroli (Flavio Orsini) in 1675, she... Read More

Madonna of the Svezzamento (attributed here to Artemisia Gentileschi, c. 1611, Palazzo Barberini Corsini) has been one among many of the depictions of the Madonna and Child in early seventeenth... Read More

In 1931, fifteen female painters decided to form a modern artists’ group called the New Group of Women Artists. To mark the occasion, an exhibition was held at the National... Read More

Giulia Ceriani Sebregondi, chair – Chantal A. Celis, executive organization

The archetype is none other than creations of the human unconscious, in which fears, hopes and feelings are expressed that can be shared by all. We rarely ask ourselves how... Read More

Beginning from the title of the chosen section “Hysteria, Folly and Witchcraft”, the author at first intends to suggest a substantial distinction: the one between Madwomen on one hand and... Read More

In the context of the 2022 AIWAC “Women’s Legacies in Natural Studies, Health, and Liberal Arts” focused on the correlation between women and naturalism from ancient times to contemporaneity I... Read More

What relationship may exist between female body movement and that concept of hysteria that has been analyzed in its various aspects in the previous papers? Before getting to the heart... Read More

Francesca Alinovi, in search of the engines of her critical action: performance, dada, comics, graffiti. A short reading of an art historian inserted in the Academy that became an exponent... Read More

The writings of Barbara von Barghahm, Luis de Moura Sobral, and Victor Serrão bring new insight into Obidos’s artistic career and accomplishments, demonstrating her celebrity status during the seventeen and... Read More

Laura D’Angelo, chair – Addison P. Stahler, executive organization

The art of the Austrian-born Marianne Stokes (née Preindlsberger; 1855–1927) remains extraordinarily neglected by scholars of modern art and visual culture. As with so many artistic partnerships, her distinctive contributions to... Read More

In the 1960 neorealist masterpiece Rocco e i suoi fratelli (Rocco and his brothers) by filmmaker Luchino Visconti, the domestic environment and its features symbolize and represent several interwoven actors:... Read More

There is an innate connection between nature and human beings, a relationship lost in the mists of time. Nature is all around us, but our contemporary urban lives are confined... Read More

I first saw Alice Walton in May 2012 when she received an honorary doctorate degree from the University of Arkansas. She arrived from her Texas ranch where she raised, trained,... Read More