CFP: The Art of Copying in Early Modern Europe
June 22 2021

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Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
Here's an upcoming conference that might interest some readers. The Medici Archive Project has put out a Call for Papers for an upcoming conference on The Art of Copying in Early Modern Europe. This conference is scheduled to take place in Florence on 21st January 2022.
According to their website:
In recent years, attention has been directed towards copies, with a particular emphasis on their meaning, function, provenance, production, patronage, collecting and dating. The aesthetic and conceptual tenets underlying this corpus of scholarly research focused primarily on works of art. However, this impulse to recreate images has also been transferred to other artistic and intellectual media. As such, the copy carries within itself a great number of intrinsic nuances, depending on the cultural context and the historical moment. The organizers of this workshop (Maddalena Bellavitis and Alessio Assonitis) invite papers that address issues that can shed new light and provide new interdisciplinary research trajectories on the mechanisms that regulate the practice and reception of copies. For this reason, we encourage submission for presentation proposals from disciplines such as book history, media history, history of science, history of medicine, history of food and history of diplomacy.
The deadline for the submission of papers is 1st September 2021.