Immortal Egypt: The Afterlife of Egypt in Early Modern Visual Arts

Veranstaltunsprogramm

London, Warburg Institute, 2. – 3. März 2023

 

2. März

14.00 (London Time) Welcome Bill Sherman, Warburg Institute

14.15 Introduction Luisa Capodieci and Laurent Bricault

 

Secret Rites

14.30 – 15.00 Korshi Dosoo, Julius-Maximilians-Universität, Würzburg

Aesthetics and Power: Egyptian Image-Magic in the Roman Empire

15.00 – 15.30 Charles Burnett, Warburg Institute, London

The Wisdom of the Egyptians in Astrological, Medical and Magical Works

15.30 – 16.00 Discussion and coffee break

 

Sacred Writing

16.00 – 16.30 Andreas Filip Winkler, Freie Universität, Berlin

The Egyptian Heavenly Writing: Genesis of the Horoscope

16.30 – 17.00 Jean Winand, Université de Liège

A World of Ideas without Words: Renaissance Hieroglyphs between Philosophy and Entertainment

17.00 – 17.30 Discussion

 

18.00 Keynote Florian Ebeling, LMU München

Egypt as the Epitome of Symbolic Semiosis: Freemasonry between Enlightenment and Romanticism

 

3. März

The Making of Cleopatra

9.30 – 10.00 Bernard Legras, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne

Cléopâtre, un génie politique ?

10.00 – 10.30 Luisa Capodieci, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne

The Queen’s “Moral Sin”: An Iconographical Italian Victory?

10.30 – 11.00 Discussion and coffee break

 

Mysterious Lands

11.00 – 11.30 Ian Rutherford, University of Reading

Early Modern Visitors to Egypt and their Use of Classical Sources?

11.30 – 12.00 Anne Haslund Hansen, The National Museum of Denmark, Copenhagen 

F.L. Norden’s Voyage d’Égypte et de Nubie, 1755: Image Production and Circulation

12.00 – 12.30 Discussion and concluding remarks

 

 

Roma, Bibliotheca Hertziana, 13. – 14. April 2023

 

13. April

15.00 Welcome Tristan Weddigen, Bibliotheca Hertziana

15.15 Introduction Luisa Capodieci and Laurent Bricault

 

Hidden Gods

15.30– 16.00 Giuseppina Capriotti, Istituto di Studi sulle Civiltà Italiche e del Mediterraneo Antico, Roma

Inventio Aegypti: Transmission, Knowledge and Interpretation

16.00 – 16.30 Anne Rolet, Université de Rennes 2

The Veil of Symbol or the Hieroglyphic Illusion: Egyptian Gods and Writing and their Uses in Sixteenth-Century Emblematic Collections

16.30 – 17.00 Discussion and coffee break

 

Isis of a thousand names 

17.00 – 17.30 Laurent Bricault, Université de Toulouse Jean Jaurès Isis myriomorphos

17.30 – 18.00 Stéphane Rolet, Université Paris 8 Vincennes Saint-Denis

Was Pierio Valeriano an Egyptologist? Considerations on the 39th Book about Isis in the Hieroglyphica (1556)

18.00 – 18.30 Discussion

 

19.00 Keynote François de Callataÿ, Bibliothèque Royale de Belgique, Bruxelles 

Egypt in medals before Champollion. Obelisks, sphinxes and pyramids: between antiquarianism and freemasonry

 

14. April 

Petrified Sunbeams 

9.30 – 10.00 Francesco Tiradritti, Università Kore, Enna

Life and Survival of Egyptian Obelisks through Centuries and Countries

10.00 – 10.30 Jean Winand, Université de Liège 

Roman Obelisks ad maiorem Dei gloriam: Athanasius Kircher and Egyptian Monuments as the membra disjecta of the prisca theologia

10.30 – 11.00 Discussion and coffee break

 

Divine Animality

11.00– 11.30 Thomas Galoppin, Université de Toulouse Jean Jaurès

A Greco-Egyptian Bestiary in Pictures: Gods and Landscapes

11.30 – 12.00 Elisa Boeri, Politecnico di Milano 

Another Rome: The Enchanted Bestiary of Giovanni Battista Piranesi

12.00 – 12.30 Discussion and concluding remarks

 

 

Paris, Institut National d’Histoire de l’Art, 1 – 2 Juin 2023

 

1. Juni 

14.00 Accueil des participants / Welcome Pierre Wat, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne/HiCSA

14.15 Introduction Luisa Capodieci et Laurent Bricault

 

Le doigt sur la bouche / The Finger on the Mouth

14.30 – 15.00 Laurent Bricault, Université de Toulouse Jean Jaurès

Harpocrate, l'enfant au silence

15.00 – 15.30 Etienne Jollet, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne

Le silence des Lumières. Harpocrate dans les arts visuels en France au XVIIIe siècle

15.30 – 16.00 Discussion et pause

 

Anamorphoses d’un amant imperial / Anamorphosis of an Imperial Lover

16.00 – 16.30 Caroline Vout, Cambridge University

Antinous in antiquity: an image between Egypt, Greece and Rome

16.30 – 17.00 Luisa Capodieci, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne

« Ornements sans nom ». La Renaissance extravagante du Ciocio-Osirantinoos

17.00 – 17.30 Discussion

 

18.00 Keynote Miguel John Versluys, Universiteit Leiden

Egypt as provocation

 

2. Juni

L’Égypte chez soi / Owning Egypt

10.00 – 10.30 Richard Veymiers, Musée royal de Mariemont / Université de Liège

Les dieux-serpents égyptiens. Du sens et de l’usage d’une série de petites stèles en pierre

10.30 – 11.00 Sidney Aufrère, CNRS

La reviviscence du monde divin égyptien dans l’Europe des antiquaires. Du Cabinet de Peiresc à la Description de l’Égypte 

11.00 – 11.30 Discussion et pause

 

Sphinx vagabonds / Wandering Sphinxes

11.30 – 12.00 Damien Agut-Labordère, CNRS

De Saïs à Paris, en passant par Rome, itinéraires des sphinx saïto-perses

12.00 – 12.30 Jean-Marcel Humbert, Musées de France

Le sphinx égyptien à Paris à la fin du XVIIIe siècle et au début du XIXe 

12.30 – 13.00 Discussion et conclusion